WPI does not have big time sports. VT has a very serious football team!
About 70% of WPI students do actually participate in sports. When we have a football game, it will not be like VT’s games. Our records in division III athletics has often been robust in soccer and wrestling. WPI is happy when it defeats old rivals MIT and RPI in football. … all in division III. I ran cross country and played club ice hockey when I was a student there. The University does not have its own hockey rink, but is does have very extensive pool and gym facilities at the heart of the campus.
As Division III university, we do not have athletic scholarships. We just do it ourselves!
Our most recent athletic powerhouse has been the women’s crew team and the big race is “the head of the Charles” in Cambridge. It is fun to compete at that level and two of the champs are from, far away, CA.! How did that happen?
PS: the last time we played Harvard was in the late 1800’ds and we won. The old football still sits in a glass case! Shall we say, rivalries are on a different scale here!