Winning Cures All

From Car Talk, MIT is sending out letters to invite students to apply. The student’s reply letter is very humorous, and I hope he gets in based solely on that, but what really caught my attention is MIT’s claim: “MIT has more varsity teams - 39 - than almost any other university, …” While “almost any other” seems like a weak cop-out to me, I was surprised MIT has so many varsity sports. A look at the MIT sports website, and they do have football (and also a Pistol team, huh?, which is separate from the Rifle team?). Wikipedia says they have 41 varsity team, the most in the nation. It’s sourced twice to MIT websites. So which is it MIT? 39 or 41? Seems like engineers would be able to tell the difference. I guess if matters if you combine the Rifle and Pistol team or count the separate.

Go Engineers! Yes, their nickname is the Engineers. The mascot is a beaver. Makes sense.

But back to football. They are a division 3 team and play in the New England Football Conference in the Boyd Division (I bet you thought it was the Bogan Division). Their “team-run” varf website never got updated at the end of the 2006 season. Football began in 1988 at MIT and they have had one head coach leading them to a 61-111-1 (damn ties) record (.355) though 2007.

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