† The NCAA started sponsoring the intercollegiate golf championship in 1939, but it retained the titles from the 41 championships previously conferred by the National Intercollegiate Golf Association in its records.
see also:
*Ivy League NCAA team championships
*List of NCAA schools with the most NCAA Division I championships
Men's sports
Baseball
Major leaguers pitcher Craig Breslow and catcher Ryan Lavarnway, among others, played baseball for the Bulldogs. Perhaps Yale's most notable baseball player, however, was future U.S. president George H. W. Bush, who played for the Bulldogs in the late 1940s. Breslow led the Ivy League with a 2.56 ERA in 2002. Lavarnway led the NCAA in batting average and slugging percentage in 2007, set the Ivy League hitting-streak record, and through 2010 held the Ivy League record in career home runs. In August 2012, Breslow and Lavarnway, playing for the Red Sox, became the first Yale grads to be Major League teammates since 1949.
Men's basketball
Men's crew
Football
The football team has competed since 1876. They have won nineteen national championships when the school competed in what is now known as the FBS. They are perhaps best known for their rivalry with Harvard, known as "The Game". Twenty one former players have been inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.
Men's golf
The men's golf team has won 21 collegiate team championships : 1897, 1898, 1902, 1905–13, 1915, 1924–26, 1931–33, 1936, 1943. They have crowned 13 individual champions: John Reid, Jr., Charles Hitchcock, Jr., Robert Abbott, W. E. Clow, Jr., Ellis Knowles, Robert Hunter, George Stanley, Nathaniel Wheeler, Francis Blossom, Jess Sweetser, Dexter Cummings, Tom Aycock. Both are records. They have won 10 Ivy League championships since the League championship was started in 1975: 1984–85, 1988, 1990–91, 1996–97, 2003, 2011, 2018.
Men's ice hockey
The Yale Men's Ice Hockey team is the oldest existing intercollegiate hockey program, having played its first game in 1896 against Johns Hopkins. The team competes in the ECAC Hockey League ; in addition the Ivy League also crowns a champion for its members that field varsity ice hockey. The Bulldogs won the 2013 NCAA National Championship in Pittsburgh with a 4–0 shutout of Quinnipiac University.
played tennis for Yale, and was later ranked No. 15 in singles in the United States in 1947, and No. 3 in doubles in the U.S. in 1948. In 1946 he won the Eastern Intercollegiate Tennis Title. Richard Raskind, later known as Renée Richards, was captain of the 1954 men's team and later became a professional female tennis player.
Women's sports
Women's basketball
Women's crew
In 1976, nineteen members of the Yale women's crew wrote "TITLE IX" on their bodies and went into athletic director Joni Barnett's office and took off their clothes, and then rower Chris Ernst read a statement about the way they were being treated. This protest was noted by newspapers around the world, including The New York Times. By 1977, a women's locker room was added to Yale's boathouse. This protest was chronicled in the 1999 documentary A Hero For Daisy.
Women's ice hockey
Women's soccer
The Bulldogs women's soccer team won the NCAA College Cup in 2002, 2004 and 2005. In 2005, the team won a school record 15 games. That year it also won the first outright team Ivy League title in Yale history. Former coach Rudy Meredith was indicted as part of the 2019 college admissions bribery scandal, for allegedly accepting bribes totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars to facilitate the admission of students to Yale as soccer players recruited to the Yale women's soccer team, despite their never having played competitive soccer. He pled guilty. Because he is cooperating with prosecutors, he may avoid the maximum penalties of 20 years in prison and $250,000 fines each of the charges carry, but he will have to forfeit the $850,000 in bribes he took in the scheme.
Women's swimming and diving
Notable non varsity sports
Rugby
Yale rugby plays college rugby in Division 1 in the Ivy Rugby Conference. Yale Rugby was founded in 1875, making it one of the oldest rugby teams in North America. President George W. Bush played rugby for Yale during his student days.
