Wentworth Institute of Technology history

The first intercollegiate contests known to have been played at Wentworth date back to 1914 when the baseball team took the field for the first time.

The United States had just entered World War I, and on May 3, 1917 Colonel F.L. Joy of the First Corps of Cadets asked if he could pitch the idea of joining the New England Guard to Wentworth students, but Mr.

Football at Wentworth ended after the 1951 season and 50 years later, posthumously, J. Joseph Tansey was inducted as a charter member of the Wentworth Institute of Technology Athletic Hall of Fame.

In 1972, the first women would be admitted to the school, since then the female population would steadily rise to almost eighteen percent, today.

1975, the Institute would create its first four-year program and develop the crown jewel of the Institute: The Co-op experience.

The baseball team, a program considered “nomadic” due to its lack of a home field to play games on and always searching the City of Boston for a vacant field to practice on, made the school's first-ever appearance in the ECAC Tournament in 1995.

In August, 1996, Sweeney Field, a synthetically surfaced playing field officially opened on this parcel – known to many at Wentworth as “the triangle,” – and would help shape Wentworth's athletic future and help to create more of a campus atmosphere.

The most recent varsity sport added to the roster was women's soccer, which debuted in 1998.

Whittemore was inducted into Wentworth's Hall of Fame, posthumously, in 2002.

The 2003 squad made the program's first-ever appearance in the CCC finals, coming on the heels of winning a school-record 15 games the season before.

In 2007 the Leopards won a school record 15 games and advanced to the ECAC Finals, while two years later the squad equaled the record for wins and won its first-ever ECAC Tournament title on Sweeney Field.

Not only did the 2012 season see the Leopards earn their fifth trip to the NCAA Tournament but it also saw the school's first-ever NCAA Tournament victory, a 3-1 triumph at Plymouth State.