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Williams began its inaugural football season in 1881 and its rivalry with Amherst College is one of the longest at any level of college football. [1] Bates and Bowdoin have competed against each other athletically since the 1870s and subsequently share one of the ten oldest NCAA Division III football rivalries, in the United States, there is a long history of athletic competition between the ...
Amherst College, Wesleyan University and Williams College joined Bowdoin College to found the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) in 1971, along with Bates College, Colby College, Hamilton College, Middlebury College, Tufts University, Trinity College and Union College. Union College left and Connecticut College joined in 1977.
Bowdoin College (/ ˈ b oʊ d ɪ n / ⓘ) is a private liberal arts college in Brunswick, Maine. Chartered in 1794, the college offers 35 majors and 40 minors, as well as several joint engineering programs with Columbia , Caltech , Dartmouth College , and the University of Maine .
Bowdoin College fielded an official varsity football team for the first time in 1899, losing to Tufts 8–4 in its first game. Bowdoin football achieved its first win in the following game in a 42–0 win over the Boston Latin School. [10] The Polar Bears' most prominent current football rivals are in-state NESCAC foes Bates and Colby.
William J. Hammer (born c. 1978) is an American college football coach. He is the head football coach for Bowdoin College, a position he has held since 2019. [1] [2] [3] He was the head football coach for Whittier College from 2006 to 2010 and Allegheny College from 2016 to 2018.
The college is the all-time leader of the Chase Regatta with a total of 14 composite wins, followed by Colby's 5 wins, concluded with Bowdoin's 2 wins. The Bates football, lacrosse, track & field, running, soccer, and frisbee teams all practice and compete on Garcelon Field .
The college athletically competes in the NCAA Division III New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC), which also includes Amherst, Connecticut, Hamilton, Middlebury, Trinity, Tufts, Wesleyan, Williams, and "Maine Big Three" rivals Bowdoin and Colby in the Colby-Bates-Bowdoin Consortium. This is one of the oldest football rivalries ...
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain 1852, Bowdoin College professor (1855–62), Civil War brigadier general, Medal of Honor recipient, Maine governor (1867–71), and president of Bowdoin College (1871–83) Michael J. Connor 1980, USN Vice Admiral, Commander, Submarine Forces (2012–2015) Abraham Eustis 1806 (M.A.), officer during the War of 1812