Endborough College
Endborough College is a private, co-educational institution of higher learning, located in the North Park section of the City of Endborough, the state capital of Endover in the Commonwealth of Baker Park.
History
Established in 1888, the school held it's first class with 5 women and 2 men on April 17 in that year, seven weeks after the University of Baker Park opened its doors to a group of 15 men.
The Council of State of Baker Park granted a charter to allow the establishment of the University of Endover, effective September 29, which was a Saturday; however, no students were enrolled officially until March 1889 when University College and Christ Chapel College officially became the "The United Colleges of the University of Endover". Grace Brethren and St Stephen's Colleges joined the fold in time for the fall term in September, and EC reaped a windfall when the Board of Controllers of Grace Brethren sold the freehold on four parcels of land totaling 3.5 acres to Anthony Ross-Griffith, one of the most famous land speculators in Baker Park in the pre-Commonwealth period (1880-92).
Sports
EC was one of the charter members of the UAC in 1929; they had a representative physical education department that offered competitive athletic activities on an intramural level in addition to an intercollegiate basis. There were official teams for tennis, gymnastics, basketball, golf, swimming and track & field; later field hockey & lacrosse were added for women, soccer & baseball for men.
In the summer of 1947, the school hired Aldine Atkinson as Director of Women's Physical Education and head varsity coach for tennis, basketball and field hockey; the 38 year old had been discharged from the National Guard after serving five years as a physical training and first aid instructor for recruits. After the first two days of practice for the upcoming 1947-48 basketball season, Atkinson kicked all of the junior and senior players off the squad, then held a campus wide tryout to find half a dozen new prospects; losing seven of the first nine games, the team came together to win 6 of the final 9 games to finish 8-10, the only losing season in Atkinson's career.
Beginning with the 1952 Endover-Ezra Universities League title, EC won 16 league championships in the next 21 seasons and captured 13 National Championships in the same span; from 1961-65 they won 103 consecutive games, and following that loss, won another 42 games in a row over the next two seasons, both defeats coming at the hands of University of Endover.
In 2021, they won five consecutive games to win the first Drawkland Collegiate Invitation Tournament, defeating Heshima and Usian University from Banija in front of 39,000 at Cliffside Court in Sadeg--the largest crowd to witness a game involving a Baker Park college team in history.