Dartmouth Big Green women's soccer
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| University | Dartmouth College |
| Conference | Ivy League, ECAC Hockey |
| NCAA | Division I |
| Athletic director | Harry Sheehy |
| Location | Hanover, New Hampshire |
| Varsity teams | 34 varsity |
| Football stadium | Memorial Field |
| Basketball arena | Leede Arena |
| Baseball stadium | Red Rolfe Field at Biondi Park |
| Soccer stadium | Burnham Field |
| Lacrosse stadium | Scully-Fahey Field |
| Other arenas | Thompson Arena |
| Mascot | Keggy the Keg |
| Nickname | Big Green |
| Fight song | Dartmouth's in Town Again |
| Colors | Dartmouth Green and White |
| Website | www |
The Dartmouth College Big Green are the varsity and club athletic teams of Dartmouth College, an American university located in Hanover, New Hampshire. Dartmouth's teams compete in the Ivy League conference of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I, as well as in the ECAC Hockey conference. The College offers 34 varsity teams, 17 club sports, and 24 intramural teams. Sports teams are heavily ingrained in the culture of the College and serve as a social outlet, with 75% of the student body participating in some form of athletics.
The students adopted a shade of forest green ("Dartmouth Green") as the school's official color in 1866. Beginning in the 1920s, the Dartmouth College athletic teams were known by their unofficial nickname "the Indians," a moniker that probably originated among sports journalists. This unofficial mascot and team name was used until the early 1970s, when its use came under criticism. In 1974, the Trustees declared the "use of the [Indian] symbol in any form to be inconsistent with present institutional and academic objectives of the College in advancing Native American education." Some alumni and students, as well as the conservative student newspaper, The Dartmouth Review, have sought to return the Indian symbol to prominence, but no team has worn the symbol on its uniform in decades. The new nickname was inspired by The Dartmouth Green in the center of campus.
The baseball team plays at Red Rolfe Field at Biondi Park, which, in 2009, underwent renovations that added an artificial turf surface. The team won Ivy League Championships in its first two seasons at the facility (2009 and 2010).
Dartmouth competed in two NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship games but came up short both times. In 1942, Dartmouth was runner-up to Stanford University and lost to the University of Utah in 1944.
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