Cornell Big Red

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Cornell University is a university located in Ithaca, New York, USA. Its two medical campuses are in New York City and Education City, Qatar.

The youngest member of the Ivy League, Cornell was founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White as a coeducational, non-sectarian institution where admission was offered irrespective of religion or race. Inaugurated shortly after the American Civil War, its founders intended that the new university would teach and make contributions in all fields of knowledge — from the classics to the sciences and from the theoretical to the applied. These ideals, unconventional for the time, are captured in Cornell's motto, an 1865 Ezra Cornell quotation: "I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study."

The Cornell Big Red is the name of the sports teams, and other competitive teams, at the University. The men's and women's Big Red teams are NCAA Division I teams that compete in the Ivy League. The men's and women's hockey teams compete in the ECAC Hockey League. The university sponsors 36 varsity sports, as well as numerous intramural and club teams.