Borregos Salvajes
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Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education
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(ITESM) in various sports, such as: basketball
Basketball
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, volleyball
Volleyball
Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...
, football
American football
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and soccer for both men's and women's teams.
American football
The Tec de Monterrey teams are best known for college footballCollege football
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across Mexico
Mexico
The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...
. The two most successful Borregos football teams are those from the Monterrey
Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Monterrey
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and State of Mexico campuses. Whenever these two teams meet, the game is considered a derby
Local derby
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. These two teams have won the majority of the college league championships since the early 1990s.
Monterrey campus
In 1945, a group of young students from an emerging educational institution came together to create a team of a little-known sport called American footballAmerican football
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, to accept an invitation from the newly-created team of the Autonomous University of Nuevo León. They did not realize at the time that this match would give birth to an icon of the regional culture.
The first "Clásico" was played on November 20, 1945, and the Borregos won 12-7. From 1945 to 1947, they competed in a league that included the local teams Tigres and Gatos Negros. However, the rapid growth of this sport in Monterrey
Monterrey
Monterrey , is the capital city of the northeastern state of Nuevo León in the country of Mexico. The city is anchor to the third-largest metropolitan area in Mexico and is ranked as the ninth-largest city in the nation. Monterrey serves as a commercial center in the north of the country and is the...
allowed for its expansion, and the so-called Second Force league was established in 1946. When the First Force season of 1947–1948 arrived, the Borregos obtained their first victory in a First Force Clásico on November 8, 1947, under the command of a new head coach, Leroy Willeford.
The next year, on December 11, 1948, the Borregos won their first championship in the major category. On July 17, 1950, the Estadio Tecnológico
Estadio Tecnológico
The Estadio Tecnológico is a stadium located in city of Monterrey, Mexico.It is the property of the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education. The Monterrey Football Club play their home games there, but only rent the space and are not affiliated with the Institute.The stadium was...
(Technological Stadium) was inaugurated. The Borregos won the major league trophy in 1950, 1951, 1953, 1958 and 1959, and were crowned champions of 1962-1964 season. In 1965, the team disbanded at a decision of the ITESM, but was reassembled the following year.
In 1974, with a new head coach, Julio Ayala, the Borregos Salvajes became the new national champions. In 1985, coach Frank González inherited a team that would become champions in the 1987, 1988 and 1989 seasons of the National Conference of the newly created ONEFA. After losing the title despite advancing to the postseason in 1991 and 1992, the Borregos Salvajes started the 1993 season with the assurance that they were on the right track to achieve their first national championship trophy in the "10 Grandes" (Big 10) conference.
In 1994, González led the Borregos Salvajes to an ONEFA title. In 1996, the team began a 14-year winning streak. The Borregos Salvajes have played the ONEFA Major League championship game 14 consecutive times, winning 9 titles in the highest level of college football in Mexico
Mexico
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. The team's dominance of the sport is such that it has recently won the title 5 consecutive seasons from 2004-2008. Currently, the Borregos Salvajes are a sports fixture, renowned throughout the country, and their games are viewed on the main sports television channel, ESPN
ESPN Latin America
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, broadcasting throughout Mexico and Central America.
Toluca campus
This team began in the major league in 1995, when most of the players were rookies. In 1997, with an administrative change and a new head coach, they reached the "10 Grandes" conference. In 2000, another head coach took over, and with committed staff members, they retained their position in the conference as one of the most important teams in the league.Mexico City campus
American football at the Mexico City campus began in 1992. Participation was initially low but a dedicated group of young students eventually secured it as a traditional sport at the campus.In 1994, coach Manuel "Pibe" Vallarí arrived. Vallarí restructured the team, making an effort to recruit players from outside the campus, inviting them to play and study at the Institute.
In 1995, the Mexico City Borregos played their first championship in the free intermediate category, which encouraged more students to join the team. This interest made it possible to launch a major league team on campus.
In 1996, the Borregos Salvajes won the Youth "AA" CONA league championship, noting that the competitive level of this team was on the rise. The scholarship program began to support student football players, bringing the team into the major leagues. In 1997, the Borregos Salvajes entered the national conference, ONEFA.
The new stage of football at the Mexico City
Mexico City
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campus began in 1999 with the arrival of head coach Jaime Antonio Martinez Celaya. For the 2000 season, the Mexico City campus were the favorites to win the championship, and advanced to the "10 Grandes" conference.
From 2001 to 2004, Mexico City campus won a single game in the conference. The male volleyball team, beating teams like the CEM, Mty, UANL, UNAM, UDLA and others (teams probably Borregos CCM would be well served with scoring more than 10 points in a match) won 3 national championships (1st division) which coincidentally are same amount of games won by the american football team in the same period of time. Consequently, the administration hired a new head coach, Mario Revuelta Zúñiga, who brought the Youth A team to an uncontested championship and, in the major leagues, the team managed to win 3 matches; the following year was also a success.
In 2006, an advisory committee was created in which both the Mexico City campus and the Santa Fe campus would cooperate together to strengthen the football program. This committee appointed a new head coach, César Martínez Sánchez. Under this new leadership, the team remains in the "10 Grandes" conference.
State of Mexico campus
American football
American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...
.
This sport was introduced 1979, in the intermediate category, and, in 1984, the ITESM had teams in 3 different categories: Youth A, AA and Intermediate. They eventually reached the Major Category in 1994, participating in the ONEFA, and taking second place.
In 1996, with a record of an undefeated 11 wins, the team won the national conference championship, giving this team the opportunity to play at the highest level in the country. In their first appearance in the conference, they took 4th place, with 5 wins and 5 losses, and lost the semifinal. The year 2000 saw the Borregos win the "10 Grandes" conference. In the years since, the team continued to place in the top 3.