Since its inception in 1898, the Yale Bulldogs

Yale Bulldogs

The Yale Bulldogs are the athletic teams of the Yale University. The school sponsors 35 varsity sports. The school has won two NCAA national championships in women's fencing, four in men's swimming and diving, and twenty one in men's golf.-Men's baseball:...

 swimming

Swimming (sport)

Swimming is a sport governed by the Fédération Internationale de Natation .-History: Competitive swimming in Europe began around 1800 BCE, mostly in the form of the freestyle. In 1873 Steve Bowyer introduced the trudgen to Western swimming competitions, after copying the front crawl used by Native...

 and diving

Diving

Diving is the sport of jumping or falling into water from a platform or springboard, sometimes while performing acrobatics. Diving is an internationally-recognized sport that is part of the Olympic Games. In addition, unstructured and non-competitive diving is a recreational pastime.Diving is one...

program has produced numerous champion athletes. Many Yale swimmers have gone on to earn All-American honors and even break world records. The team has won 4 NCAA championships, 30 EISL championships, and several AAU championships. Under legendary coach

Coach (sport)

In sports, a coach is an individual involved in the direction, instruction and training of the operations of a sports team or of individual sportspeople.-Staff:...

 Robert J. H. Kiphuth

Robert J. H. Kiphuth

Robert John Herman Kiphuth was born in Tonawanda, New York and is best known for his 42-year career as head coach of the Yale University men's swim team, from 1917-1959...

, the Yale men swam to a record of 528 wins and 12 losses. As of February 2009, the men's program has what may be the winningest record of any sports team ever: 1063 wins, 210 losses over 112 years. The first varsity

Varsity team

In the United States and Canada, varsity sports teams are the principal athletic teams representing a college, university, high school or other secondary school. Such teams compete against the principal athletic teams at other colleges/universities, or in the case of secondary schools, against...

 women's team competed in 1975.

Coaches

• Thomas O'Callahan (1906-1915) 47-14
• Matthew Mann
  Matthew Mann
  Matthew "Matt" Mann II was a British-born American college swimming coach and was coach of the men's swim team in the 1952 Summer Olympics that won four gold medals, two silver medals and one bronze medal....
  
   (1915-1917) 17-3
• Robert J. H. Kiphuth
  Robert J. H. Kiphuth
  Robert John Herman Kiphuth was born in Tonawanda, New York and is best known for his 42-year career as head coach of the Yale University men's swim team, from 1917-1959...
  
   (1917-1959) 528-12
• Philip Moriarty (1959-1976) 195-25
• Edward L. Bettendorf (1976-1977) 8-3
• Paul Katz (1977-1978) 3-7
• Frank P. Keefe (1978-2010) 241-127 (men)
• Timothy Wise (2010-present)

Men

1. 1898-1899 ? 1-2
2. 1899-1900 ? 1-1
3. 1900-1901 ? 1-0
4. 1901-1902 ? 5-3
5. 1902-1903 ? 2-3
6. 1903-1904 ? 2-1
7. 1904-1905 ? 4-1
8. 1905-1906 ? 3-2
9. 1906-1907 ? 2-3
10. 1907-1908 ? 3-2
11. 1908-1909 Edward C. M. Richards 4-2
12. 1909-1910 Edward C. M. Richards 7-0
13. 1910-1911 William Howe 5-0
14. 1911-1912 John Cameron Stoddart 3-2
15. 1912-1913 Andrew Wilson 8-2
16. 1913-1914 Paul Roberts 7-1
17. 1914-1915 Daniel Summers 8-2
18. 1915-1916 Carl V. Schlaet 7-2
19. 1916-1917 Louis A. Ferguson 10-1
20. 1917-1918 Richard Mayer 8-1
21. 1918-1919 John M. Hincks 7-0
22. 1919-1920 John M. Hincks 10-0
23. 1920-1921 Lorrin P. Thurston 14-0
24. 1921-1922 C. Dudley Pratt 14-0
25. 1922-1923 William L. Jelliffe 15-0
26. 1923-1924 Robert B. Colgate 10-4
27. 1924-1925 Robert J. Sullivan 14-0
28. 1925-1926 James D. Bronson 14-0
29. 1926-1927 Phil W. Bunnell 14-0
30. 1927-1928 James A. House, Jr. 14-0
31. 1928-1929 John A. Pope 12-0
32. 1929-1930 John V. Howland 14-0
33. 1930-1931 Robert L. Messimer 14-0
34. 1931-1932 Lloyd B. Osborne 11-0
35. 1932-1933 Albert T. Hapke 14-0
36. 1933-1934 Joseph Barker 14-0
37. 1934-1935 David Livingston 12-0
38. 1935-1936 Norris D. Hoyt 14-0
39. 1936-1937 Richard A. Cooke 14-1
40. 1937-1938 John J. Macionis 10-3
41. 1938-1939 John W. Good 15-1
42. 1939-1940 Russ P. Duncan 15-1
43. 1940-1941 Willis H. Sanburn III 13-0
44. 1941-1942 Howard R. Johnson 12-0
45. 1942-1943 Edward T. Davidge 11-0
46. 1943-1944 Richard Lyon 10-0
47. 1944-1945 Alan R. Ford
    Alan Ford (swimmer)
    Alan Ford was an American swimmer who was a silver medalist at the 1948 Summer Olympics and was the first to swim the 100-yard freestyle in under 50 seconds.-Biography:...
    
     8-1
48. 1945-1946 Philetus Stetler 8-0
49. 1946-1947 Edward K. Heuber 13-0
50. 1947-1948 Allan M. Stack 12-0
51. 1948-1949 Richard B. Baribault 13-0
52. 1949-1950 Albert J. Ratkiewicz 13-0
53. 1950-1951 Raymond M. Reid 13-0
54. 1951-1952 James J. Carroll 13-0
55. 1952-1953 Wayne R. Moor 14-0
56. 1953-1954 Kenneth S. Welch 13-0
57. 1954-1955 Malcolm P. Aldrich, Jr. 14-0
58. 1955-1956 John P. Phair 15-0
59. 1956-1957 William T. Clinton 14-0
60. 1957-1958 Peter R. Taft 13-0
61. 1958-1959 P. Timothy Jecko 13-0
62. 1959-1960 Peter Lusk 14-0
63. 1960-1961 Thomas Bissell 12-1
64. 1961-1962 William McMaster 12-1
65. 1962-1963 John Finch 13-0
66. 1963-1964 Michael M. Austin 13-0
67. 1964-1965 Stephen E. Clark
    Stephen Clark (swimmer)
    Stephen Edward Clark is a former American swimmer and Yale varsity swimming captain. He won three gold medals at the 1964 Olympics, one of which he donated to Yale University in 2005.-References:*...
    
     13-0
68. 1965-1966 George S. Hill 12-1
69. 1966-1967 Douglas Kennedy 14-0
70. 1967-1968 Donald A. Schollander
    Don Schollander
    Donald Arthur Schollander is a former Olympic swimmer for the United States. He won total of five gold medals and one silver medal at the 1964 Summer Olympics...
    
     14-0
71. 1968-1969 Robert S. Waples, Jr. 15-0
72. 1969-1970 Edward L. Bettendorf 14-0
73. 1970-1971 Michael W. Cadden 12-1
74. 1971-1972 Robert Kasting
    Robert Kasting
    Robert Kasting , but raised in Lethbridge, Alberta is a former butterfly and freestyle swimmer from Canada, who competed for his native country at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. He won the bronze medal in the 4x100m Medley Relay, alongside Erik Fish, Bruce Robertson, and William Mahony...
    
     10-3
75. 1972-1973 Nate Cartmell 10-1
76. 1973-1974 Chuck Holum 6-5
77. 1974-1975 Bryan Smith 4-6
78. 1975-1976 Bob Blattner 7-6
79. 1976-1977 Quentin Lawler 8-3
80. 1977-1978 Bill Lindsay 3-7
81. 1978-1979 Jim Healy 5-6
82. 1979-1980 Mark DeVore 5-6
83. 1980-1981 Kurt Langborg 5-6
84. 1981-1982 Bob Murchison 7-5
85. 1982-1983 Jon Sharp 6-6
86. 1983-1984 Geoff Pitt 3-8
87. 1984-1985 Jason Green 7-5
88. 1985-1986 Todd Kaplan 3-7
89. 1986-1987 Bert Hazlett 7-4
90. 1987-1988 Jeff Kaplan 3-7
91. 1988-1989 Eric Breissinger 5-7
92. 1989-1990 Dave Jacobs 7-4
93. 1990-1991 Greg Reihman 10-3
94. 1991-1992 Greg Reihman 9-1
95. 1992-1993 Mike Englesbe 13-1
96. 1993-1994 Sean Tesoro 10-2
97. 1994-1995 Mike Kostal 11-5
98. 1995-1996 John Mendell 7-7
99. 1996-1997 Brian Hall 9-3
100. 1997-1998 David Antonelli 7-4
101. 1998-1999 Steve Gold 10-1
102. 1999-2000 Mike Caperonis 10-2
103. 2000-2001 George Gleason 10-3
104. 2001-2002 Pat Dennis 14-1
105. 2002-2003 Greg Palumbo 11-2
106. 2003-2004 Alex Nash 10-2
107. 2004-2005 Dave Lange 7-5
108. 2005-2006 Brendan Everman 8-4
109. 2006-2007 Geof Zann 7-3
110. 2007-2008 Colin Stalnecker 8-3
111. 2008-2009 Alex Righi 7-4
112. 2009-2010 Thomas Robinson 5-6
113. 2010-2011 Kyle Veatch 2-8

Men's EISL Championships

Yale is in the Ivy League

Ivy League

The Ivy League is an athletic conference comprising eight private institutions of higher education in the Northeastern United States. The conference name is also commonly used to refer to those eight schools as a group...

, but men's swimming traditionally competes in the Eastern Intercollegiate Swim League (EISL), which pre-dates the Ivy League by 18 years. The EISL currently includes all the Ivy League schools.

• 1936
• 1939
• 1940
• 1941
• 1942

• 1943
• 1946
• 1947
• 1948
• 1949

• 1950
• 1951
• 1952
• 1953
• 1954

• 1955
• 1956
• 1957
• 1958
• 1959

• 1960
• 1961
• 1963
• 1964
• 1965

• 1967
• 1968
• 1969
• 1970
• 1973

• 1993

Athletes

• 1912, Stockholm
  • Arthur McAleenan, diving
• 1936, Berlin
  • John Macionis, 400 Free, 800 Free Relay silver
• 1948, London
  • Alan Ford
    Alan Ford (swimmer)
    Alan Ford was an American swimmer who was a silver medalist at the 1948 Summer Olympics and was the first to swim the 100-yard freestyle in under 50 seconds.-Biography:...
    
    , 100 Free silver
  • James McLane
    James McLane
    James Price McLane is a former United States and Yale swimmer. He won four medals over the course of the 1948 and 1952 Olympics. He graduated from Philips Academy and in 1953 graduated from Yale University, where he was a member of Skull and Bones.-References:*...
    
    , 400 Free silver, 1500 Free gold, 800 Free Relay Gold
  • John Marshall (Australia), 400 Free bronze, 1500 Free silver
  • Allen Stack, 100 Back gold
• 1952, Helsinki
  • Rex Aubrey (Australia), 100 Free, 1500 Free, 800 Free Relay
  • James McLane
    James McLane
    James Price McLane is a former United States and Yale swimmer. He won four medals over the course of the 1948 and 1952 Olympics. He graduated from Philips Academy and in 1953 graduated from Yale University, where he was a member of Skull and Bones.-References:*...
    
    , 800 Free Relay gold, 400 Free, 1500 Free
  • John Marshall (Australia), 400 Free, 800 Free Relay
  • Wayne Morre, 800 Free Relay gold, 400 Free
  • Donald Sheff, alternate 800 Free Relay
  • Allen Stack, 100 Back
• 1956, Melbourne
  • Timothy Jecko, alternate 800 Free Relay
  • John Marshall (Australia), 200 Fly
• 1960, Rome
  • Stephen Clark
    Stephen Clark (swimmer)
    Stephen Edward Clark is a former American swimmer and Yale varsity swimming captain. He won three gold medals at the 1964 Olympics, one of which he donated to Yale University in 2005.-References:*...
    
    , alternate 400 Medley Relay, 800 Free Relay
  • Jeffrey Farrel, 400 Medley Relay gold, 800 Free Relay gold
• 1964, Tokyo
  • Michael Austin, 400 Free Relay gold, 100 Free
  • Stephen Clark
    Stephen Clark (swimmer)
    Stephen Edward Clark is a former American swimmer and Yale varsity swimming captain. He won three gold medals at the 1964 Olympics, one of which he donated to Yale University in 2005.-References:*...
    
    , 400 Medley Relay gold, 400 Free Relay gold, 800 Free Relay gold
  • David Lyons, alternate 400 Free Relay, 800 Free Relay
  • Bill Mettler, alternate 800 Free Relay
  • John Nelson 1500 Free silver, 400 Free
  • Donald Schollander
    Don Schollander
    Donald Arthur Schollander is a former Olympic swimmer for the United States. He won total of five gold medals and one silver medal at the 1964 Summer Olympics...
    
    , 100 Free gold, 400 Free gold, 400 Free Relay gold, 800 Free Relay gold
  • Edward Townsend, alternate 400 Free Relay, 800 Free Relay
• 1968, Mexico City
  • Philip Long, 200 Breast
  • John Nelson, 800 Free Relay gold, 200 Free bronze, 400 Free, 1500 Free
  • Donald Schollander
    Don Schollander
    Donald Arthur Schollander is a former Olympic swimmer for the United States. He won total of five gold medals and one silver medal at the 1964 Summer Olympics...
    
    , 800 Free Relay gold, 200 Free silver, alternate 400 Medley Relay, 400 Free Relay
• 1972, Munich
  • Erik Fish (Canada), 400 Medley Relay bronze
  • Robert Kasting
    Robert Kasting
    Robert Kasting , but raised in Lethbridge, Alberta is a former butterfly and freestyle swimmer from Canada, who competed for his native country at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. He won the bronze medal in the 4x100m Medley Relay, alongside Erik Fish, Bruce Robertson, and William Mahony...
    
     (Canada), 400 Medley Relay bronze
• 1976, Montreal
  • Lionel Bourcelot (France), 100 Back
• 1984, Los Angeles
  • George Gross (Canada), Water Polo
• 2000, Sydney
  • Stephen Fahy (Bermuda), 100 Fly, 200 IM
  • George Gleason (U.S. Virgin Islands), 100 Free, 200 Free, 200 IM
  • Emily de Riel, Modern Pentathlon silver
• 2004, Athens
  • George Gleason (U.S. Virgin Islands), 100 Free
• 2004, Athens (Paralympics)
  • Deb Gruen, 100m Breaststroke ("bronze"), 100m Freestyle, 200m Individual Medley, 400m Freestyle, 50m Butterfly
• 2008, Beijing (Paralympics)
  • Deb Gruen, 400 Freestyle, 50 Fly, 100 Breast (American Record) bronze, 200 IM

Coaches

• Robert J. H. Kiphuth: 1928, 1932, 1936, 1940, 1948
• Philip Moriarty: 1960
• Frank Keefe: 1984, 1988, 2000

Facilities

The Yale Swimming & Diving teams train and compete in the Payne Whitney Gymnasium

Payne Whitney Gymnasium

The Payne Whitney Gymnasium is the gymnasium of Yale University. Built in the prevailing Gothic architecture style of the campus in 1932, it is a remarkable building, possessing a Gothic tower, a third-floor swimming pool, a polo practice room, and a rooftop running track. It is the second-largest...

on Yale's campus. The third-floor practice pool is a 5-lane, 50-meter course with two moveable bulkheads that allow the pool to be divided into two 25-yard courses. The Robert J. H. Kiphuth Exhibition Pool is the competition venue, and is a 6-lane 25-yard course with seating for 2,178.

External links

• Yale Bulldogs. Yale University Athletics official website. Retrieved 2010-03-03.
• Yale Bulldogs: Men's Swimming. Yale University Athletics official website. Retrieved 2010-03-03.
• Yale: Women's Swimming. Yale University Athletics official website. Retrieved 2010-03-03.
• Eastern Intercollegiate Swim League. CollegeSwimming.com. Retrieved 2010-03-03.
• Swimming & Diving. IvyLeagueSports.com. Retrieved 2010-03-03
• Men's History: Yearly Team Scores (1962-2007). The Psyche Sheet. February 6, 2007. Retrieved 2010-03-03.