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The Michigan State Spartans are the athletic team that represent Michigan State University. The school's athletic program includes 25 varsity sports teams. Their mascot is a Spartan warrior named Sparty, and the school colors are green and white. The university participates in the NCAA's Division I-A and in the Big Ten Conference in all Varsity sports. Michigan State offers 12 varsity sports for men and 13 for women.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.msu.edu/athletics/ )〕 The university's athletic director is Mark Hollis, who was promoted to the position on January 1, 2008. Hollis replaced Ron Mason, who also served as head hockey coach from 1979 to 2002, retiring with a 608–261–68 record at MSU.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://msuspartans.cstv.com/sports/m-hockey/mtt/mason_ron00.html )〕 MSU's football team has won or shared six national championships in 1951, 1952, 1955, 1957, 1965 and 1966, and has won the Rose Bowl in 1954, 1956, 1988 and 2014.〔 Its men's basketball team won the NCAA National Championship in 1979 and 2000.〔 The MSU men's ice hockey has won national titles in 1966, 1986 and 2007.〔 MSU's golf team won the Big Ten Championship in 1969 and again in 2005.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.myspartans.info/ )〕 ==History== In 1925, the institution changed its name to ''Michigan State College of Agriculture and Applied Science'', and as an agricultural school, its teams were referred to as the Aggies. Looking to move beyond its agricultural roots, Michigan State held a contest to find a new nickname. They had decided to call the teams the "Michigan Staters" or the "Michigan State Sport Ons". MSU officials headed up by George S. Alderton and local sports writers for the ''Lansing State Journal'' and the ''Capital News'' went through the entries as well as met with longtime Michigan State University supporters to find a better and more heroic name. They decided on the "Spartans", which had been suggested by Stephen G. Scofes and his two brothers Pete and Nick, all natives of Sparta, Greece. The three brothers met with MSU officials at their Lansing restaurant, The Coffee Cup then renamed the Famous Grill, when they told them the story of the Spartan war at Thermopylae, Greece in 480 B.C., where 300 Spartan warriors held back thousdand of Persian warriors led by Persia King, Xerxes. Today the Scofes family still honors the Michigan State men's Basketball and Football teams with trophies awarded to MSU players and faculty, since the banquets began in the Scofes families Coffee Cup and Famous Grill restaurants. This story was also highlighted in the popular book entitled, "The Tradition Continues" authored by Constantine and Steven Demos, page 56.〔The First Hundred Years, 1855–1955. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press. p. 305. ISBN 0-87013-222-9.〕 By coincidence, Justin Morrill had once compared the Land Grant colleges to the schools of ancient Sparta. With a heroic name and a historic precedent, the "Spartans" quickly caught on as the teams' new nickname. They later changed the lyrics of the Fight Song to reflect the name change of the College and its sports teams.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://newsroom.msu.edu/snav/184/page.htm )〕 As the college grew in size, it looked to join a major collegiate conference. When the University of Chicago eliminated varsity football and withdrew from the Western Conference (now the Big Ten) in 1946, Michigan State president John A. Hannah lobbied hard to take its place. Despite opposition from the University of Michigan, the Big Ten finally admitted M.S.C. on May 20, 1949.〔(Bao, Robert. "Revisiting An Intriguing Chapter of MSU History," Michigan State University Alumni Association, Friday, June 29, 2012. )〕 After joining the conference, head football coach Clarence L. "Biggie" Munn led the Spartan football team to the Rose Bowl in the 1953–54 season, beating UCLA 28–20.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/bowls/yearly_results.php?year=1953 )〕 Successor coach Hugh "Duffy" Daugherty carried the football team to a second Rose Bowl where it again defeated UCLA, 17–14.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/bowls/yearly_results.php?year=1955 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Michigan State Spartans」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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