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Borregos Salvajes


The Borregos Salvajes (in English: Rams) is the name of all the sports teams that represent the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (ITESM) in various sports, such as: basketball, volleyball, American football and football for both men's and women's teams.

The Tec de Monterrey teams are best known for college football across Mexico. The two most successful Borregos football teams are those from the Monterrey and State of Mexico campuses. Whenever these two teams meet, the game is considered a derby. These two teams have won the majority of the college league championships since the early 1990s.

In 1945, a group of young students from an emerging educational institution came together to create a team of a little-known sport called American football, to accept an invitation from the newly created team of the Autonomous University of Nuevo León. They did not realize at the time that this match would give birth to an icon of the regional culture.

The first "Clásico" was played on November 20, 1945, and the Borregos won 12-7. From 1945 to 1947, they competed in a league that included the local teams Tigres and Gatos Negros. However, the rapid growth of this sport in Monterrey allowed for its expansion, and the so-called Second Force league was established in 1946. When the First Force season of 1947–1948 arrived, the Borregos obtained their first victory in a First Force Clásico on November 8, 1947, under the command of a new head coach, Leroy Willeford.


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