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The University of San Francisco, commonly known as simply SF or USF, is a private, Jesuit university, in San Francisco, which is the 4th most populated city in California, as well as the 12th most populated one in USA, having a population estimated at a number of nearly 810 000 inhabitants, during the 2008 census.
USF was founded in 1855, first starting as Saint Ignatius Academy, in a building in Market Street, which later became downtown San Francisco. Saint Ignatius Academy became St. Ignatius College, in April 1859, when it received its charter from the state of California.
The University of San Francisco was officially born in 1930, the change from college to university status being possible mainly thanks to long-time San Francisco Mayor James Rolph Jr., who at the time, was running for Governor of California, and who demanded the transformation.
USF was mainly a male-only educational institution through most of its history, becoming fully coeducational in 1964. Since it was founded, the university quickly grew, being organized today into 5 academic divisions, having nearly 9000 students and more than 500 faculty members, being nationally recognized for its graduate programs in education, law, nursing, business and environmental management.
The athletic teams from USF are known as the San Francisco Dons, who compete in the NCAA’s Division I (the university being a charter member of the West Coast Conference), in various sports, including men’s and women’s basketball, golf, cross country, tennis, soccer, men’s baseball, women’s volleyball, as well as track and field.
The Dons have won a total of 12 NCAA championships, 42 WCC championships and 1 NIT Championship, over the past years, and they are best known for their achievements in basketball, in which they’ve won 3 national championships, going undefeated in the 1956 season, becoming the 1st undefeated team to win a national championship, winning 60 games in a row, from 1954 to 1956, considered then a record.
