Consorcio Colby-Bates-Bowdoin

50 km 31 millas

Colby

Bowdoin

Bates

   

Ubicación de Colby, Bates y Bowdoin

El Consorcio Colby-Bates-Bowdoin ( CBB ) es una conferencia atlética y un consorcio académico entre tres universidades privadas de artes liberales en el estado estadounidense de Maine . El grupo está formado por Colby College en Waterville , Bates College en Lewiston y Bowdoin College en Brunswick . En alusión a las Tres Grandes de la Ivy League , se las conoce colectivamente como las " Tres Grandes de Maine " ^{[ 1 ] [ 2 ],} un juego de palabras con "Maine" y "main". Los nombres de las universidades están ordenados según su organización geográfica en Maine (de norte a sur).

Las universidades compiten entre sí en diversos deportes universitarios, principalmente en fútbol americano y remo . En fútbol americano, compiten por un trofeo del Campeonato CBB en partidos de fútbol americano a tres bandas durante el otoño de sus respectivos años académicos. Hasta la temporada 2023-24, Bowdoin lidera la conferencia en victorias, con 20; Colby tiene 17 y Bates ha ganado 13. Ha habido ocho empates a tres bandas: 1965, 1979, 1993, 1995, 2009, 2011, 2013 y 2022. En remo, las escuelas compiten en la Regata CBB Chase, un torneo anual de ida y vuelta por la Copa del Presidente. El líder histórico de la Regata Chase es Bates con un total de 18 victorias combinadas, seguido por Colby con 5 victorias, y Bowdoin con 1 victoria.

From its inception, Bates College served as an alternative to a more traditional and historically conservative Bowdoin College.^[3][4] There is a long tradition of rivalry and competitiveness between the two colleges, revolving around socioeconomic class, academic quality, and collegiate athletics.^[5][6][7] The two colleges have competed against each other athletically since the 1870s, and subsequently share one of the ten oldest NCAA Division III football rivalries, in the United States.^[8][5] The Bates-Bowdoin Game is the most attended football game every academic year at both colleges. Bowdoin developed a "football fight song" entitled, "Forward the White" in 1913.^[9] All football games between the two occurred on Bowdoin's Whittier Field, until the development of Bates' Garcelon Field.

Colby remained isolated from neighboring Bates, and the Colby-Bates-Bowdoin Consortium because of its location in Waterville as well as socioeconomic and political differences.^[8] The CBB Games was created for the 1965 college football season. Previously, Bates and Bowdoin have competed since 1870s against the University of Maine in the Maine State Series or Maine State Championship. When the University of Maine moved to a higher division in 1965, Colby joined and the rivalry took its current name.^[5][10] In the 1940s, Colby began competing with the two colleges and in the first game, had a three-way tie. In 1988, Bates president Thomas Hedley Reynolds began the Chase Regatta, a rowing competition, which features the President's Cup, which is contested annually.^[11] Since August 3, 1997, when Reynolds instated the President's Cup to be contested by all three for rowing.^[12] Rowing is the most active boat sport of Bates and Colby, with Bowdoin being more active in Sailing. Bowdoin is the only college in the CBB to maintain a Club Rowing team, and suspended its varsity team at its founding.

En 1999, las tres universidades tuvieron un papel destacado en Los Soprano . En el episodio titulado " College ", Tony Soprano lleva a su hija, Meadow, de viaje a Maine para visitar el Consorcio Colby-Bates-Bowdoin. ^{[ 35 ] [ 36 ]}

• Lista de programas deportivos universitarios en Maine

Para obtener más información sobre el consorcio:

• Intercambio de recursos del profesorado de CBB
• Programa de estudios en el extranjero de CBB
• Recursos de la biblioteca de CBB

Para obtener más información sobre la NESCAC y las puntuaciones universitarias:

• Archivo de fútbol de la NESCAC
• Archivo de fútbol americano de Colby College
• Archivo de fútbol americano de Bates College
• Archivo de fútbol americano de Bowdoin College