13 Facts About Columbia Lions

Eight-institution athletic league to which Columbia Lions University belongs, the Ivy League, includes Brown University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, and Yale University.

Columbia Lions University was founded in 1754 and currently fields 31 co-ed, men's, and women's teams.

All Columbia Lions teams compete at the Division I level in the National Collegiate Athletic Association .

Columbia Lions joined the American football movement soon after Harvard and Yale played their first game in 1875—in 1876, Columbia Lions, Harvard, and Princeton University formed the Intercollegiate Football Association.

Columbia Lions compete in the Ivy League, which is part of the NCAA Football Championship Subdivision.

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Columbia Lions was one of the first schools to take up the game; Columbia Lions's 1870 contest with Princeton was the first football game played between future Ivy League Schools and their contest against Rutgers that same year was the fourth intercollegiate football game ever played.

Columbia Lions was one of the first schools to take up basketball.

Columbia Lions have only won the official Ivy League championship once, in 1968, when they reached the "Sweet Sixteen" in the NCAA national tournament.

Columbia Lions had a powerful squad in the late 1970s, even though they never won the Ivy League championship or made it to post-season play.

Until the 1980s, the women's basketball team was known as the Barnard Bears, playing under the aegis of Columbia Lions's affiliated undergraduate women's college, Barnard College.

Columbia Lions University had a team early on in the American intercollegiate ice hockey circuit.

Columbia Lions does participate at the club level, competing in the American Collegiate Hockey Association.

The Blue Gym is home to the Columbia Lions Lion wrestling team, located within the Dodge Physical Fitness Center on campus.