[2] Sports teams are heavily ingrained in the culture of the college and serve as a social outlet, with 75% of the student body participating in some form of athletics.

[4] Beginning in the 1920s, the Dartmouth College athletic teams were known by their unofficial nickname "the Indians," a moniker that probably originated among sports journalists.

In 1974, the Trustees declared the "use of the [Indian] symbol in any form to be inconsistent with present institutional and academic objectives of the College in advancing Native American education.

The baseball team plays at Red Rolfe Field at Biondi Park, which, in 2009, underwent renovations that added an artificial turf surface.

Dartmouth competed in two NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship games but came up short both times.

All teams train out of the Friends of Dartmouth Rowing Boathouse, located on the Connecticut River which runs along the western edge of the campus.

Dartmouth's relatively small programs have produced an outsized number of Olympians and National Team Members.

The season for both men's heavyweight and lightweight programs culminate in the Eastern Sprints and IRA regattas.

Throughout its history, the Dartmouth Cycling team has won the Ivy League title seven times, most recently in 2017.

The team rides and races together on a regular basis, and runs the gamut of skill experience from expert to Cat.

While the spring Eastern Conference Road season is the main focus, Dartmouth cycling also regularly sends riders to Fall Mountain Bike and Cyclocross races.

[14] In the 2014 season, Big Green softball won the first Ivy League title in program history and will be making their first appearance in the NCAA Division 1 post-season tournament.

Additionally, with the teams' training and hosting matches on ten international courts in the John Berry Sports Center, Dartmouth has hosted the men's and women's Intercollegiate Squash Association Championships four times – in 1988, 1991, 1997, and 2005 – as well as the national junior championships three times, most recently in 1996.

The fund was named after John C. Glover, an all America swimmer for Dartmouth in the class of 1955, who died while training for the Olympics at Yale University in 1956.

Dartmouth also played in the D1-AA national playoffs, beating Pitt 43–34 in the round of 16, and defeating St. Bonaventure 30–22 in the quarterfinals, before falling in the semifinals to Central Florida 45–38.

Dartmouth repeated as champions in the 2012 Collegiate Rugby Championship, defeating Cal 21–19 in the semifinal and beating Arizona 24–5 in the final.

[18] Dartmouth went 5–1 at the 2012 USA Rugby Sevens Collegiate National Championships to win the consolation bracket.

In the same way, the Dartmouth team now trains with a combination of track workouts, weight-lifting, plyometrics, and Ultimate strategies.

The Dartmouth men's ultimate team first gained recognition when it competed in the college National series in 2003.

The Dartmouth women's ultimate team, named Princess Layout, competed in the national series for the first time in 2004 where they tied for 9th place.

When attending Nationals in 2003, the team renamed itself "Pain Train," taken from the Terry Tate: Office Linebacker Reebok ads.