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Illinois Fighting Illini, the Glossary

The Illinois Fighting Illini are the intercollegiate athletic teams that represent the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.^[1]

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1879 establishments in Illinois
Sports clubs and teams established in 1879

Activities and Recreation Center (UIUC)

The Activities and Recreation Center, more commonly known as the ARC, is an athletic facility at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign for current university students, members and guests.

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American Collegiate Hockey Association

The American Collegiate Hockey Association (ACHA) is a college ice hockey association.

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American Collegiate Rowing Association

American Collegiate Rowing Association (ACRA) is one of the governing bodies of college rowing in the United States, together with the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and the Intercollegiate Rowing Association (IRA).

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American football, referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada and also known as gridiron football, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end.

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Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women

The Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW) was a college athletics organization in the United States, founded in 1971 to govern women's college competitions in the country and to administer national championships (see AIAW Champions).

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Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women championships

The Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women was founded in 1971 to govern collegiate women's athletics and to administer national championships.

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Atkins Tennis Center

Opened in 1991 at a cost of $5.3 million, the Atkins Tennis Center is home to both men and women's tennis at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's hoop (a basket in diameter mounted high to a backboard at each end of the court), while preventing the opposing team from shooting through their own hoop.

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Belted kingfisher

The belted kingfisher (Megaceryle alcyon) is a large, conspicuous water kingfisher, native to North America.

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Big Ten Conference

The Big Ten Conference (stylized B1G, formerly the Western Conference and the Big Nine Conference, among others) is the oldest NCAA Division I collegiate athletic conference in the United States.

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Big Ten Universities

Big Ten Universities is a Division 1-A college rugby conference founded in summer 2012 by ten of the twelve schools that then made up the Big Ten Conference (which has since expanded to 14 members).

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Boand System

The Boand System was a system for determining the college football national championship.

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Bob Richards

Robert Eugene Richards (February 20, 1926 – February 26, 2023) was an American athlete, minister, and politician.

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Brian Cook (basketball)

Brian Joshua Cook (born December 4, 1980) is an American former professional basketball player.

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Central States Collegiate Hockey League

The Central States Collegiate Hockey League (CSCHL) is Division I ACHA level hockey-college athletic conference.

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Champaign, Illinois

Champaign is a city in Champaign County, Illinois, United States.

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Champaign–Urbana metropolitan area

The Champaign–Urbana metropolitan area, also known as Champaign–Urbana and Urbana–Champaign as well as Chambana (colloquially), is a metropolitan area in east-central Illinois.

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Chief Illiniwek

Chief Illiniwek was the mascot of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), associated with the university's intercollegiate athletic programs, from October 30, 1926, to February 21, 2007.

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Chuck Carney

Charles Roslyn Carney (August 25, 1900 – September 5, 1984) was an American football and basketball player.

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Clinton Lake (Illinois)

Clinton Lake is a reservoir located near Clinton, Illinois.

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College baseball

College baseball is baseball that is played by student-athletes at institutions of higher education.

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College basketball

College basketball is basketball that is played by teams of amateur student-athletes at universities and colleges.

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College football is gridiron football that is played by teams of amateur student-athletes at universities and colleges.

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A national championship in the highest level of college football in the United States, currently the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), is a designation awarded annually by various organizations to their selection of the best college football team.

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College rowing in the United States

Rowing is the oldest intercollegiate sport in the United States.

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College rugby in the United States

College rugby is played by men and women throughout colleges and universities in the United States.

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College soccer

College soccer is played by teams composed of soccer players who are enrolled in colleges and universities.

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College softball

College softball is softball as played on the intercollegiate level at institutions of higher education, predominantly in the United States.

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College sports

College sports or college athletics encompasses non-professional, collegiate and university-level competitive sports and games.

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Collegiate wrestling

Collegiate wrestling, commonly referred to as folkstyle wrestling, is the form of wrestling practiced at the post-secondary level in the United States.

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Cross country running

Cross country running is a sport in which teams and individuals run a race on open-air courses over natural terrain such as dirt or grass.

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Daniel Kinsey

Daniel Chapin Kinsey (January 22, 1902 – June 27, 1970) was an American hurdler and a scholar in physical education.

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Dee Brown (basketball, born 1984)

Daniel "Dee" Brown (born August 17, 1984) is an American former professional basketball player and current college coach.

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Derek Harper

Derek Ricardo Harper (born October 13, 1961) is an American former professional basketball player.

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Deron Williams

Deron Michael Williams (born June 26, 1984) is an American former professional basketball player.

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Dick Butkus

Richard Marvin Butkus (December 9, 1942 – October 5, 2023) was an American football linebacker, sports commentator, and actor.

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Diving (sport)

Diving is the sport of jumping or falling into water from a platform or springboard, usually while performing acrobatics.

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Division 1-A Rugby

Division 1-A Rugby (formerly known as the College Premier Division) is the highest level of college rugby within the United States and is administered by USA Rugby.

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Don Laz

Donald Robert Laz (May 17, 1929 – February 21, 1996) was an American pole vaulter.

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Douglas R. Mills

Douglas Raymond "Gaga" Mills (April 9, 1907 – August 12, 1993), a native of Elgin, Illinois, was a high school and college basketball player and coach in the state of Illinois.

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Edward K. Hall

Edward Kimball Hall (June 9, 1870 – November 10, 1932) was an American football and baseball player and coach, college athletics administrator, lawyer, and business executive.

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G.I. Bill

The G.I. Bill, formally known as the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, was a law that provided a range of benefits for some of the returning World War II veterans (commonly referred to as G.I.s).

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Gene Vance

Ellis Eugene Vance (February 25, 1923 – February 16, 2012) was an American professional basketball player.

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George Halas

George Stanley Halas Sr. (February 2, 1895 – October 31, 1983), nicknamed "Papa Bear" and "Mr.

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George Huff (coach)

George A. Huff, Jr. (June 11, 1872 – October 1, 1936) was an American football and baseball player, coach, and college athletics administrator.

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George Kerr (runner)

George Ezekiel Kerr (16 October 1937 – 15 June 2012) was a Jamaican athlete who competed in the 400 and 800 metres.

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Golf

Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit a ball into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible.

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Gymnastics

Gymnastics is a type of sport that includes physical exercises requiring balance, strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, artistry and endurance.

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Harold Osborn

Harold Marion Osborn D.O. (April 13, 1899 – April 5, 1975) was an American track athlete.

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Helms Athletic Foundation

The Helms Athletic Foundation, founded in 1936, was a Los Angeles-based organization dedicated to the promotion of athletics and sportsmanship.

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Hoot Evers

Walter Arthur "Hoot" Evers (February 8, 1921 – January 25, 1991) was an American baseball outfielder, scout, coach, and executive.

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Huff Hall

Huff Hall is a 4,050-seat multi-purpose arena in Champaign, Illinois, United States.

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Illini Rowing

Illini Rowing is a club college rowing program that represents the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

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Illinois Confederation

The Illinois Confederation, also referred to as the Illiniwek or Illini, were made up of 12 to 13 tribes who lived in the Mississippi River Valley.

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Illinois Field

Illinois Field is a baseball venue in Champaign, Illinois, home to the University of Illinois Fighting Illini baseball team.

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Illinois Field (1884)

Illinois Field was a stadium in Urbana, Illinois.

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Illinois Fighting Illini

The Illinois Fighting Illini are the intercollegiate athletic teams that represent the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Illinois Fighting Illini and Illinois Fighting Illini are 1879 establishments in Illinois and sports clubs and teams established in 1879.

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Illinois Fighting Illini baseball

The Illinois Fighting Illini baseball team is the varsity intercollegiate athletic team of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in Champaign, Illinois, United States.

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The Illinois Fighting Illini football program represents the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in college football at the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (formerly Division I-A) level.

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Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball

The Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball team is an NCAA Division I college basketball team competing in the Big Ten Conference, that represent the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

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Illinois Fighting Illini men's golf

The Illinois Fighting Illini men's golf team represents the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in the sport of golf.

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Illinois Fighting Illini men's gymnastics

The Illinois Fighting Illini men's gymnastics team represents the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign and competes in the Big Ten Conference.

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Illinois Fighting Illini men's ice hockey

The Illinois Fighting Illini men's ice hockey team is a college ice hockey program that represents the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.

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Illinois Fighting Illini men's tennis

The Illinois Fighting Illini men's tennis team is an NCAA Division I college tennis team competing in the Big Ten Conference.

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Illinois Fighting Illini softball

The Illinois Fighting Illini softball team represents University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in NCAA Division I college softball.

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Illinois Fighting Illini women's basketball

The Illinois Fighting Illini women's basketball team is an NCAA Division I college basketball team competing in the Big Ten Conference.

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Illinois Fighting Illini women's volleyball

The Illinois Fighting Illini women's volleyball is the NCAA Division I intercollegiate volleyball program of the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, often referred to as "Illinois", located in Champaign, Illinois.

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Illinois Loyalty

"Illinois Loyalty", also known as "We're Loyal to You, Illinois" or just "Loyalty", is a song associated with the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

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Illinois Men's Volleyball Club

The Illinois Men's Volleyball Club is a registered student organization at the University of Illinois that plays men's volleyball.

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Indiana Hoosiers

The Indiana Hoosiers are the intercollegiate sports teams and players of Indiana University Bloomington, named after the demonym for people from the state of Indiana.

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Isaiah Martinez

Isaiah Alexander Martinez (born September 2, 1994) is an American freestyle wrestler and graduated folkstyle wrestler who competes at 79 kilograms.

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Jeff George

Jeffrey Scott George (born December 8, 1967) is an American former football quarterback who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 14 seasons.

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Jerry Colangelo

Jerry Colangelo (born November 20, 1939) is an American businessman and sports executive.

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Jesse Delgado

Jesse Delgado (born August 26, 1992) is an American mixed martial artist and folkstyle wrestler who was a two-time National Champion (2013, 2014) at the NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships.

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John Mackovic

John Mackovic (born October 1, 1943) is an American football coach.

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Johnny Orr (basketball, born 1927)

John Michael Orr (June 10, 1927 – December 30, 2013) was an American basketball player and coach, best known as the head coach of men's basketball at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, University of Michigan, and at Iowa State University.

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Josh Whitman

Josh Whitman (born August 5, 1978) is a university administrator, a lawyer, and a former American football player.

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Justin Spring

Justin Edward Spring (born March 11, 1984) is a retired American gymnast.

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Ken Holtzman

Kenneth Dale Holtzman (November 3, 1945 – April 15, 2024) was an American professional baseball player and coach.

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Kendall Gill

Kendall Cedric Gill (born May 25, 1968) is an American former professional basketball player who now works as a television basketball analyst.

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Kenney Gym and Kenney Gym Annex

The Kenney Gym and the Kenney Gym Annex are two buildings located at 1402-06 Springfield Avenue in Urbana, Illinois, on the campus on the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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List of teams with the highest winning percentage in NCAA Division I men's college basketball

This is a list of Men's Division I college basketball teams ranked by winning percentage through the end of the 2022–23 season.

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List of teams with the most victories in NCAA Division I men's college basketball

This is a list of top NCAA Division I Men's basketball teams ranked by the number of wins through the end of the last completed season, 2023–24.

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Lou Boudreau

Louis Boudreau (July 17, 1917 – August 10, 2001), nicknamed "Old Shufflefoot", "Handsome Lou", and "the Good Kid", was an American professional baseball player and manager.

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Luther Head

Luther Dale Head (born November 26, 1982) is a former American professional basketball player.

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Marching band

A marching band is a group of instrumental musicians who perform while marching, often for entertainment or competition.

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Marching Illini

The Marching Illini is the marching band of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

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Match play

Match play is a scoring system for golf in which a player, or team, earns a point for each hole in which they have bested their opponents; as opposed to stroke play, in which the total number of strokes is counted over one or more rounds of 18 holes.

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Memorial Stadium (University of Illinois)

Memorial Stadium is a stadium on the campus of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in Champaign, Illinois, United States.

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Michigan Wolverines

The Michigan Wolverines comprise 29 varsity sports teams at the University of Michigan.

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Mid-American Collegiate Hockey Association

The Mid-American Collegiate Hockey Association (MACHA) is an ACHA club hockey league comprising colleges and universities in the Midwest.

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Mike Small (golfer)

Mike Small (born March 4, 1966) is an American professional golfer and college golf coach.

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Mike Thomas (athletic director)

Michael J. Thomas is an American university administrator, and the former athletic director at Cleveland State University.

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National Collegiate Athletic Association

The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is a nonprofit organization that regulates student athletics among about 1,100 schools in the United States, and one in Canada.

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National Hockey League

The National Hockey League (NHL; Ligue nationale de hockey, LNH) is a professional ice hockey league in North America comprising 32 teams25 in the United States and 7 in Canada.

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National Hockey League Players' Association

The National Hockey League Players' Association (NHLPA, Association des joueurs de la Ligue nationale de hockey (AJLNH)) is the labour union for the group of professional hockey players who are under Standard Player Contracts to the 32 member clubs in the National Hockey League (NHL) located in the United States and Canada.

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Native Americans in the United States

Native Americans, sometimes called American Indians, First Americans, or Indigenous Americans, are the Indigenous peoples native to portions of the land that the United States is located on.

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NCAA Division I

NCAA Division I (D-I) is the highest level of intercollegiate athletics sanctioned by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) in the United States, which accepts players globally.

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The NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), formerly known as Division I-A, is the highest level of college football in the United States.

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NCAA Division I men's golf championship

The NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championship, played in late May or early June, is the top annual competition in U.S. men's collegiate golf.

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NCAA Men's Tennis Championship

The NCAA Men's Tennis Championships are annual tournaments held in the spring to crown team, singles, and doubles champions in American college tennis.

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NCAA Native American mascot decision

In 2005 the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) distributed a "self evaluation" to its member institutions for teams to examine the use of potentially offensive imagery with their mascot choice.

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Neale Stoner

Neale R. Stoner (1936 – February 14, 2023) was an American college athletics coach and administrator.

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Nick Anderson (basketball)

Nelison "Nick" Anderson (born January 20, 1968) is an American former professional basketball player who played for the Orlando Magic, Sacramento Kings, and Memphis Grizzlies of the National Basketball Association (NBA).

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Oskee Wow-Wow

Oskee-Wow-Wow (along with "Illinois Loyalty") is the official fight song of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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Penn State Nittany Lions

The Penn State Nittany Lions are the athletic teams of Pennsylvania State University, except for the women's basketball team, known as the Lady Lions.

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Ray Eliot

Raymond Eliot "Butch" Nusspickel (June 13, 1905 – February 24, 1980) was an American football and baseball player, coach, and college athletics administrator.

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Ray Nitschke

Raymond Ernest Nitschke (December 29, 1936 – March 8, 1998) was an American professional football player who spent his entire 15-year career as a linebacker in the National Football League (NFL) with the Green Bay Packers.

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Red Grange

Harold Edward "Red" Grange (June 13, 1903 – January 28, 1991), nicknamed "the Galloping Ghost" and "the Wheaton Iceman", was an American football halfback who played for the Chicago Bears and the short-lived New York Yankees.

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Ron Guenther

Ronald E. Guenther (born October 3, 1945) is a former American football player, coach, and college athletics administrator.

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Simeon Rice

Simeon James Rice (born February 24, 1974) is an American former professional football player who was a defensive end in the National Football League (NFL).

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Sioux

The Sioux or Oceti Sakowin (Dakota/Lakota: Očhéthi Šakówiŋ /oˈtʃʰeːtʰi ʃaˈkoːwĩ/) are groups of Native American tribes and First Nations people from the Great Plains of North America.

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Sousa Archives and Center for American Music

The Sousa Archives and Center for American Music (SACAM) documents American music through historical artifacts and archival records in multiple formats.

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State Farm Center

The State Farm Center is a large dome-shaped 15,544-seat indoor arena located in Champaign, Illinois, owned and operated by the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

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Stephen Bardo

Stephen Dean Bardo (born April 5, 1968) is an American retired professional basketball player who played 3 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA).

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Swimming (sport)

Swimming is an individual or team racing sport that requires the use of one's entire body to move through water.

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Tennis

Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles).

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The Daily Illini

The Daily Illini, commonly known as the DI, is a student-run newspaper that has been published for the community of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign since 1871.

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The News-Gazette (Champaign–Urbana)

The News-Gazette is a daily newspaper serving eleven counties in the eastern portion of Central Illinois and specifically the Champaign–Urbana metropolitan area.

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Track and field

Athletics (or track and field in the United States) is a sport that includes athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills.

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Tyra Perry

Tyra Perry is an American, former collegiate softball outfielder and current head coach originally from Zachary, Louisiana.

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United States Intercollegiate Boxing Association

The United States Intercollegiate Boxing Association (USIBA) is a nonprofit amateur collegiate boxing league founded in 2012 and formed, in part, to address perceived safety and fairness issues present in the National Collegiate Boxing Association (such as matching up boxers with significant skill or experience disparities), and to generally organize the sport at a collegiate level more adequately.

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University of California, Los Angeles

The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California, United States.

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University of Illinois Arboretum

The University of Illinois Arboretum is a new arboretum, with gardens, currently under construction on the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus.

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University of Illinois Ice Arena

The University of Illinois Ice Arena, also known as the Big Pond,Daily Illini,, Daily Illini website, retrieved February 22, 2011.

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University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC, U of I, Illinois, or University of Illinois) is a public land-grant research university in the Champaign–Urbana metropolitan area, Illinois, United States.

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University of Maryland, College Park

The University of Maryland, College Park (University of Maryland, UMD, or simply Maryland) is a public land-grant research university in College Park, Maryland.

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Urbana, Illinois

Urbana is a city in and the county seat of Champaign County, Illinois, United States.

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Varsity team

Varsity teams are sports teams that compete in university sports events.

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Volleyball

Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net.

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YouTube

YouTube is an American online video sharing platform owned by Google.

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1947 Rose Bowl

The 1947 Rose Bowl was a college football bowl game.

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1952 Rose Bowl

The 1952 Rose Bowl was the 38th edition of the college football bowl game, played at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California.

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1964 Rose Bowl

The 1964 Rose Bowl was the 50th Rose Bowl Game, played on January 1, 1964.

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1990 Florida Citrus Bowl

The 1990 Florida Citrus Bowl was a post-season American college football bowl game at the Florida Citrus Bowl stadium in Orlando, Florida between the University of Illinois Fighting Illini and the Virginia Cavaliers on January 1, 1990.

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1994 Liberty Bowl

The 1994 Liberty Bowl was held on December 31, 1994, in Memphis, Tennessee, at Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium.

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1999 MicronPC.com Bowl

The 1999 MicronPC.com Bowl was a post-season American college football bowl game at Pro Player Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida, between the Illinois Fighting Illini and the Virginia Cavaliers on December 30, 1999.

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2010 Texas Bowl

The 2010 Texas Bowl was the fifth edition of the college football bowl game, and was played at Reliant Stadium in Houston, Texas.

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2011 Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl (December)

The 2011 Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl, the 10th edition of the game, was a post-season American college football bowl game, held on December 31, 2011 at AT&T Park in San Francisco, California as part of the 2011–12 NCAA Bowl season.

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2013–14 NCAA Division I men's basketball season

The 2013–14 NCAA Division I men's basketball season began in November with the 2K Sports Classic and ended with the Final Four in Arlington, Texas April 5–7.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illinois_Fighting_Illini

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See also

1879 establishments in Illinois

Sports clubs and teams established in 1879

References