Chicago Maroons football - wikipedia Chicago Maroons football Chicago Maroons football 2017 Chicago Maroons football team First season 1892 Athletic director Erin McDermott Head coach Chris Wilkerson 3rd season, 14 -- 5 (. 737 ) Stadium Stagg Field ( Capacity : 1,650 ) Field surface FieldTurf Location Chicago, Illinois Conference Midwest Conference All - time record 416 -- 368 -- 34 (. 529 ) Claimed nat'l titles 2 ( 1905, 1913 ) Conference titles 10 Heisman winners Consensus All - Americans 12 Current uniform Colors Maroon and White Fight song Wave the Flag Mascot Phil the Phoenix Website athletics.uchicago.edu The Chicago Maroons football represents the University of Chicago in college football. The Maroons, which play in NCAA Division III, are football - only member of the Midwest Conference starting with the 2017 season. From 1892 to 1939, the Maroons were a major college football power. The University of Chicago was a founding member of the Big Ten Conference and the Maroons were coached by Amos Alonzo Stagg, one of the game 's pioneers, for 41 seasons. In 1935, halfback Jay Berwanger became the first recipient of the Downtown Athletic Club Trophy, later known as the Heisman Trophy. Nonetheless, in the late 1930s, university president Robert Maynard Hutchins decided that big - time college football and the university 's commitment to academics was not a good fit. The University of Chicago abolished its football program in 1939 and withdrew from the Big Ten in 1946. Football returned to the University of Chicago in 1963 in the form of a club team, which was upgraded to varsity status in 1969. The Maroons began competing in Division III in 1973. Contents 1 Division history 2 Conferences 3 Records 4 Championships 4.1 National championships 4.2 University Athletic Association championships 4.3 Big Ten Conference championships 5 Notable personnel 5.1 College Football Hall of Fame 5.2 Others 6 See also 7 References 8 External links Division history Year Division 1937 -- 1939 NCAA ( Major College ) 1940 -- 1962 No team 1963 -- 1968 Club team 1969 -- 1972 NCAA College Division 1973 -- present NCAA Division III Conferences Year Conference 1892 -- 1895 Independent 1896 -- 1939 Big Ten Conference 1940 -- 1962 No team 1963 -- 1968 Club team 1969 -- 1972 Independent 1973 -- 1975 Division III Independent 1976 -- 1987 Midwest Collegiate Athletic Conference 1988 -- 1989 Division III Independent 1990 -- 2016 University Athletic Association 2015 -- 2016 Southern Athletic Association 2017 -- present Midwest Conference Records Most Wins : 16 ( 1899 ) Most Losses : 10 ( 1991 ) Most Ties : 3 ( 1924 ) Championships National championships 1905 ( National Championship Foundation Poll ) 1913 ( Parke H. Davis ) ( 2 ) University Athletic Association championships 1998 2000 ( 2 ) 2005 ( 3 ) 2010 ( 4 ) 2014 ( 5 ) Big Ten Conference championships 1899 1905 ( 2 ) 1907 ( 3 ) 1908 ( 4 ) 1913 ( 5 ) 1922 ( 6 ) 1924 ( 7 ) All - Time Record Against Current Big Ten Members School Wins Losses Ties % Illinois 19 22. 466 Indiana 20. 789 Iowa 9. 714 Maryland * 0 0 1.000 Michigan 7 19 0. 269 Michigan State * 0 0 1.000 Minnesota 5 12. 306 Nebraska * 0. 500 Northwestern 26 8. 743 Ohio State 10. 214 Penn State * 0 0 0 N / A Purdue 27 14. 655 Rutgers * 0 0 0 N / A Wisconsin 16 19 5. 463 Note : Michigan State, Penn State, Nebraska, Maryland, and Rutgers were not members of the Big Ten when Chicago was a member. Notable personnel College Football Hall of Fame Name Position Years Inducted Notes Jay Berwanger Halfback 1933 -- 1935 1954 First recipient of the Heisman Trophy Hugo Bezdek Fullback 1905 1954 Inducted for his career as a coach at Oregon, Arkansas, and Penn State Fritz Crisler End 1919 -- 1921 1954 Inducted for his career as a coach at Minnesota, Princeton, and Michigan Paul Des Jardien Center 1912 -- 1914 1955 All - American in 1913 and 1914 Walter Eckersall Quarterback 1903 -- 1906 1951 Leader of the 1905 national championship team Clarence Herschberger Fullback 1895 -- 1898 1970 First western player selected as a first - team All - American Tiny Maxwell Guard 1902, 1904 -- 1905 All - American for 1905 national championship team Clark Shaughnessy Coach 1933 -- 1939 1968 College football coach for 50 years Amos Alonzo Stagg Coach 1892 -- 1932 1951 `` The Grand Old Man of the Midway '' Walter Steffen Quarterback 1906 -- 1908 1969 Scored 156 points for teams that went 13 -- 2 -- 1 ; First - team All - American, 1908 Andy `` Polyphemus '' Wyant Guard, Center 1892 -- 1894 1962 Played 8 varsity seasons of college football for Bucknell and Chicago Others Walter S. Kennedy, quarterback for Stagg 's 1898 -- 1899 teams Walter E. Marks, fullback and halfback, 1924 -- 1926 ; leader of Chicago 's last Big Ten championship team Nelson Norgren, played football under Stagg, coached Chicago basketball team, 1921 -- 1942, 1944 -- 1957 Laurens Shull, All - American, killed in action during World War I Frederick A. Speik, end, All - American, 1904 Herman Stegeman, played for 1913 national championship ; later coached football, baseball, basketball and track at Georgia John Webster Thomas, fullback, All - American 1922, played for Stagg 1921 -- 1923 Mysterious Walker, played for Stagg, 1904 -- 1906 ; coached college teams, 1907 -- 1940 See also List of NCAA Division III football programs Chicago -- Michigan football rivalry Chicago Maroons References Jump up ^ `` Color Palette University Communications ''. Retrieved May 21, 2016. Jump up ^ `` UChicago football set to join Midwest Conference as affiliate member in 2017 '' ( Press release ). Athletics & Recreation, The University of Chicago. May 11, 2016. Retrieved January 27, 2017. Jump up ^ https://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/17/sports/ncaafootball/at-the-university-of-chicago-football-and-higher-education-mix.html?_r=0 Jump up ^ `` Wash U, Chicago already leaving SAA ''. d3football.com. June 12, 2015. Retrieved November 15, 2015. Jump up ^ `` Archived copy ''. Archived from the original on 2008 - 10 - 25. Retrieved 2008 - 10 - 24. External links Official website Chicago Maroons football Venues Marshall Field ( 1893 -- 1912 ) Old Stagg Field ( 1913 -- 1939 ) Stagg Field ( ? -- present ) Bowls & rivalries Michigan ( historic ) Purdue Culture & lore Phoenix Big Bertha Monsters of the Midway Marching band T formation 1894 Stanford game 1922 Princeton game People Head coaches Seasons 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 -- 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1984 1985 1986 2017 National championship seasons in bold Midwest Conference Full members Beloit Buccaneers Cornell Rams Grinnell Pioneers Illinois College Blue Boys & Lady Blues Knox Prairie Fire Lake Forest Foresters Lawrence Vikings Monmouth Fighting Scots Ripon Red Hawks St. Norbert Green Knights Football - only members Chicago Maroons Macalester Scots Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chicago_Maroons_football&oldid=802743789 '' Categories : Chicago Maroons football Sports clubs established in 1892 1892 establishments in Illinois 1963 establishments in Illinois 1940 disestablishments in Illinois Sports clubs disestablished in 1940 Talk Contents About Wikipedia Italiano Edit links This page was last edited on 28 September 2017, at 05 : 09. 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Question: when did the university of chicago leave the big ten
Answer: 1946