Georgetown Hoyas football
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| First season | 1874 | ||
| Athletic director | Lee Reed | ||
| Head coach |
Rob Sgarlata 3rd year, 10–23 (.303) |
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| Stadium | Cooper Field | ||
| Seating capacity | 2,500 | ||
| Field surface | FieldTurf | ||
| Location | Washington, D.C. | ||
| NCAA division | Division I FCS | ||
| Conference | Patriot League | ||
| Past conferences |
MAAC (1993–1999) SAIAA (1907–1921) |
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| All-time record | 506–416–32 (.547) | ||
| Bowl record | 0–2 (.000) | ||
| Conference titles | 2 | ||
| Consensus All-Americans | 18 | ||
| Colors | Blue and Gray |
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| Fight song | There Goes Old Georgetown | ||
| Mascot | Jack the Bulldog | ||
| Rivals |
Howard Bison George Washington Colonials |
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| Website | www.guhoyas.com/football | ||
The Georgetown Hoyas football team represents Georgetown University in the Division I Football Championship Subdivision level of college football. Like other sports teams from Georgetown, the team is named the Hoyas, which derives from the chant, Hoya Saxa. They play their home games at Cooper Field on the Georgetown University campus in Washington, D.C.
The first football team at Georgetown was formed on November 1, 1874, with the earliest recorded intercollegiate games dating to 1887. By the 1940s, Georgetown played in the Orange Bowl, where they lost 14–7 to Mississippi State.
As the college game became more expensive after World War II, Georgetown's program began to lose money rapidly. The Hoyas' last successful season was 1949, when they lost in the Sun Bowl against Texas Western.
After a 2–7 season in 1950, Georgetown attempted to salvage its program by softening its schedule, replacing major opponents such as Penn State, Miami, and Tulsa with Richmond, Bucknell, and Lehigh. The program was losing too much money, however, and on March 22, 1951 the University's president canceled the football program.
In 1962, Georgetown allowed its students to start a football program as an exhibition-only club sport. New games began in 1964, with their first match drawing 8,000 spectators to see the Hoyas host another university with an unofficial program, New York University (NYU). Varsity football resumed in 1970 at what later became known as the Division III level. In 1976, Georgetown began an annual rivalry game with the Catholic University Cardinals for the Steven Dean Memorial Trophy. The competition ended in 1993, when Georgetown moved into the Division I Football Championship Subdivision because of NCAA legislation forbidding Division I or II schools from playing football in lower divisions.
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