Dartmouth College's Alumni Gymnasium, located in Hanover, New Hampshire, in the United States, is the center of Dartmouth College's athletic life and hosts venues for many of Dartmouth's 34 varsity sports.

Dartmouth's original sports field was the Green, where students played cricket and old division football during the 19th century.

* The Dartmouth Review continues to refer to Dartmouth's sports teams as the " Indians " after the traditional school mascot which was officially discarded in the early 1970s.

Dartmouth's athletic teams compete in the National Collegiate Athletic Association ( NCAA ) Division I eight-member Ivy League conference ; some teams also participate in the Eastern College Athletic Conference ( ECAC ).

He was a member of Dartmouth's 1996 undefeated Ivy League champion team, and served as President of Chi Heorot fraternity in 1997.

In, Ausmus became the first Ivy League catcher to play in the World Series since Dartmouth's Chief Meyers in 1916.

Thus, when Dartmouth's Winter Carnival -- widely recognized as the greatest, wildest, roaringest college weekend anywhere, any time -- was broadcast over a national television hookup, Prexy John Sloan Dickey appeared on the screen in rugged winter garb, topped off by a tam-o'-shanter which he confessed had been acquired from a Smith girl.

Dartmouth's favorite and most characteristic recreation is skiing.

Forty miles farther north is Mount Moosilauke, Dartmouth's own mountain.

Daniel Webster, an alumnus of the class of 1801, presented the College's case to the Supreme Court, which found the amendment of Dartmouth's charter to be an illegal impairment of a contract by the state and reversed New Hampshire's takeover of the College.

In 2004, Booz Allen Hamilton selected Dartmouth College as a model of institutional endurance " whose record of endurance has had implications and benefits for all American organizations, both academic and commercial ," citing Trustees of Dartmouth College v. Woodward and Dartmouth's successful self-reinvention in the late 19th century.

Dartmouth's strength in undergraduate education is highlighted by U. S. News & World Report when in 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012 it ranked Dartmouth first in undergraduate teaching at national universities.

Dartmouth's campus buildings vary in age from Wentworth and Thornton Halls of the 1820s ( the oldest surviving buildings constructed by the College ) to new dormitories and mathematics facilities completed in 2006.

Most of Dartmouth's buildings are designed in the Georgian American colonial style, a theme which has been preserved in recent architectural additions.

Dartmouth's nine libraries are all part of the collective Dartmouth College Library, which comprises 2. 48 million volumes and 6 million total resources, including videos, maps, sound recordings, and photographs.

Today, two of Dartmouth's athletic facilities are located in the southeast corner of campus.

Behind the Alumni Gymnasium is Memorial Field, a 15, 600-seat stadium overlooking Dartmouth's football field and track.

The nearby Thompson Arena, designed by Italian engineer Pier Luigi Nervi and constructed in 1975, houses Dartmouth's ice rink.

Dartmouth's other athletic facilities in Hanover include the Friends of Dartmouth Rowing Boathouse and the old rowing house storage facility ( both located along the Connecticut River ), the Hanover Country Club, Dartmouth's oldest remaining athletic facility ( established in 1899 ), and the Corey Ford Rugby Clubhouse.

Dartmouth's more than 200 student organizations and clubs cover a wide range of interests.

Partially because of Dartmouth's rural, isolated location, the Greek system dating from the 1840s is one of the most popular social outlets for students.

Dartmouth's motto, chosen by Eleazar Wheelock, is Vox clamantis in deserto.

Richard Hovey's " Men of Dartmouth " was elected as the best of Dartmouth's songs in 1896, and became the school's official song in 1926.

Dartmouth's 1769 royal charter required the creation of a seal for use on official documents and diplomas.

In 2007, Dartmouth College fielded 34 intercollegiate varsity teams: 16 for men, 16 for women, and coeducational sailing and equestrian programs.

Stanford competes in 34 varsity sports and is one of two private universities in the Division I FBS Pacific-12 Conference.

SPA offers 15 varsity sports, and 34 teams.

In all, 34 schools in the United States, ranging from the Midwest to the East Coast, sponsor varsity women's hockey.

They participate in 34 varsity sports over 3 seasons, as well as competing at junior varsity, freshman, and modified levels in many of these sports.

A prior study by the FSTA showed 19. 4 million people age 12 and above in the U. S. and Canada played fantasy sports in 2006 and 34. 5 million people had ever played fantasy sports.

In common with many other sports, greyhound racing enjoyed its highest attendances just after the Second World War — for example, there were 34 million paying spectators in 1946.

It has also garnered considerable national attention from its recent success in these sports: in particular, three-time Division I NCAA Football champion Appalachian State Mountaineers, who stunned the fifth-ranked Michigan Wolverines 34 – 32 on September 1, 2007 ; and from the Davidson Wildcats, who reached the Elite Eight in the 2008 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament by upsetting power programs Gonzaga ( a mid-major school which became a power program in the 2000s ), Georgetown and Wisconsin.

Greenwich is one of the five host boroughs for the 2012 Summer Olympics and will host 34 events in nine sports at three venues across the borough.

Hurling and Gaelic football have become the most popular spectator sports in the Republic of Ireland ; 1, 962, 769 attendances were recorded at senior inter-county hurling and football championship games in 2003 while 60 % of all attendances to sports events in the Republic of Ireland were at Gaelic games, with 34 % of the total going to Gaelic football and 23 % to hurling.

Approximately 1, 500 students participate in 34 intercollegiate club sports annually as well.

The games consisted of 34 events in four sports: alpine skiing, ice sledge hockey, ice sledge racing, and nordic skiing.

* The jersey number 34 has been retired by several North American sports teams in honor of past playing greats or other key figures:

" The AAU is divided into 56 distinct Districts, which annually sanction 34 sports programs, 250 national championships, and over 30, 000 age division events.

Henderson got the rebound of Esposito's shot, shot and was stopped ; but in perhaps the most famous moment in Canadian sports history, he put the rebound behind Tretiak with only 34 seconds to play.

Having been a coal miner, he turned professional at cue sports in 1963 at the age of 34 and the following season he won the Australian Professional Championship, a title which he went on to win, with one exception, every year for the next 20.

Gaelic football is the most popular sport in Ireland in terms of match attendance and community involvement, and represents 34 % of total sports attendances at events in Ireland and abroad, followed by hurling at 23 %, soccer at 16 % and rugby at 8 %.

Gaelic football is the most popular sport in Ireland in terms of match attendance, and in 2003 accounted for 34 % of total sports attendances at events in the Republic of Ireland, followed by hurling at 23 %, soccer at 16 % and rugby at 8 %, and Initiative's ViewerTrack study measuring 2005 sports audiences showed the sport's highest-profile match, the All-Ireland Football Final, to be the most watched event of the nation's sporting year.

Sports Illustrated for Women was published by Time Inc ." It ran for 20 issues, between March 2000 and November 2002, targeting an audience of women, 18 – 34 years old, with " a passion for sports.

Clubmark was introduced by Sport England in 2002 and is currently being implemented across 34 sports.

180 competitors, 146 men and 34 women, took part in 115 events in 20 sports.

628 competitors, 341 men and 276 women, took part in 270 events in 34 sports.

34 competitors, 27 men and 7 women, took part in 39 events in 13 sports.