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About Colgate University
Founded in 1819 as a Baptist seminary at first, and named after the Colgate family who had a great contribution at the institution’s establishment, the university is a national private liberal arts college located on a magnificent campus in central New York, in the Village of Hamilton, Madison County.
Colgate University promotes and sustains individual contribution, it is a place where each voice makes a difference, offering its students the opportunity of customizing their own academic programs. Besides the benefits and advantages that a prestigious educational institution such as Colgate University offers, it is also one of the leaders in off-campus study programs, offering many programs all over the world.
Colgate University’s outdoor education programs offer its students the opportunity to discover the beautiful natural world and learning about themselves at the same time. So no matter if it is winter camping in the Adirondacks, located at a distance of just a few hours from the campus, or learning to kayak in Lake Moraine, cross-country skiing, or learning basic survival skills, there is something to do for everybody!
Students can also contribute to over 100 extracurricular activities and clubs that keep the campus community alive. The clubs can satisfy almost any kind of interest from culture to politics, entertainment, arts or religion.
Did you know?
▪ Colgate University is between the oldest colleges in the United States – on the 66th place.
▪ Thirteen is the lucky number of Colgate; the college was founded by 13 men with $13 dollars and 13 prayers.
▪ Inside Colgate there is a 75 million-year-old petrified dinosaur egg, the first owned by a college in the US.
▪ The Colgate Maroon-News is the oldest college weekly newspaper in America.
▪ The stone of which some of the first buildings on campus were constructed, was gathered at a rock quarry located at the top of the Hill.
▪ Some of Colgate's illustrious alumni are the famous columnist and `60 Minutes` commentator Andy Rooney in '42; Adam Clayton Powell in '30 (dec.), pioneering African American politician; Johnny Marks in '31 (dec.), who wrote the song Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer; and Charles Addams in '33 (dec.), the New Yorker cartoonist known for his macabre drawings, which spawned the 1960s television show The Addams Family.
▪ Seven Oaks Golf Course, a Robert Trent Jones championship course, is rated by Golf Digest among the top five college courses and the 7th-best public access course in NY State.
▪ Approximately 80% of Colgate students are involved in one or more varsity, club, or intramural sports. There are 25 varsity teams, over 40 club teams and 18 intramural sports teams. Club rugby is the most popular.
▪ All varsity sports compete at the Division 1 level and are in the Patriot League, except for men’s and women’s hockey, which are in the ECAC (Eastern College Athletic Conference).
▪ The Colgate football team finished a perfect season, with a 9-0 record in 1932. They were and still are the only team in history to be undefeated, untied, and not scored upon.
▪ The `Biddle Years` were between 1996 and 2007 and under Coach Biddle the Raiders had a 784 winning percentage with an overall record of 58 wins and only 16 losses. They had a record against the Ivy League was 28-8. 2003 was a banner year, when the team won Consensus #2 I-AA National Ranking, tied the NCAA Division I Record for Wins in a Season (15) and set the school season record for most wins in Colgate history.
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