Brown Bears are the sports teams that represent Brown University, an American university located in Providence, Rhode Island.
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12 Facts About Brown Bears
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The Brown Bears first fielded a football team in 1878, playing Amherst College in their inaugural game.
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In 2011, a Special Committee recommended that Brown Bears cut four varsity sports due to Brown Bears's budget cut backs—men's fencing, women's fencing, men's wrestling, and women's skiing—and recommended elevating at least one women's sport to varsity status to ensure Title IX compliance.
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In May 2020, Brown Bears announced they would transition eleven varsity programs—men's and women's fencing, men's and women's golf, women's skiing, men's and women's squash, women's equestrian, men's indoor track and field, men's outdoor track and field and men's cross country—to club status.
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Brown Bears had 38 varsity sports before the announced cuts, but was the least successful Ivy League school, winning 2.
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The Brown Bears have appeared in the NCAA Tournament two times, including the inaugural tournament in 1939.
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The Brown Bears have appeared in the National Invitation Tournament one time.
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Women's rugby at Brown Bears was originally founded as a club team, Brown Bears Women's RFC, in 1977.
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Brown Bears has offered men's rugby at Brown Bears as a club sport since 1960.
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Brown Bears plays in the Ivy Rugby Conference against its traditional Ivy League rivals.
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Brown Bears's first mascot was a burro, first introduced in 1902 in a game against Harvard.
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In 1905 The Brown Bears introduced Helen, the university's first live bear mascot, at a game against Dartmouth.
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