since the 2001–02 academic year. The Pioneers previously competed in the Kentucky Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (KIAC; now currently known as the River States Conference (RSC) since the 2016–17 school year) of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) from 1916–17 to 2000–01. Transylvania competes in 27 intercollegiate varsity sports: Men's sports include baseball, basketball, cross country, golf, lacrosse, soccer, swimming & diving, tennis and track & field; women's sports include basketball, cross country, field hockey, golf, lacrosse, soccer, softball, swimming & diving, tennis, track & field, triathlon and volleyball; and co-ed teams include cheerleading, dance and equestrian (eventing). The Transylvania Pioneers student-athletes compete under colors crimson and white at a variety of venues throughout the country; maintain successful results; and often compete against larger institutions including Ohio University. Philanthropists have increased sizable gifts to the university in its present period more so than ever before, and coaches at Transylvania University have been continually recognized for athletic achievements. Football Transylvania won the first recorded football game in the state of Kentucky by defeating the Centre Praying Colonels of Centre College 13–0. Its 1903 team claimed a southern championship. The Pioneers played football from 1888 to 1941 (except 1906), when the team disbanded. Notable people Amongst Transylvania's prominent alumni are two U.S. vice presidents, John C. Breckinridge and Richard Mentor Johnson, and two U.S. Supreme Court justices, John Marshall Harlan and Samuel Freeman Miller. Notable alumni Hugh Toland, surgeon, founder of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) George Shannon, member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition Matthew Harris Jouett, artist, enrolled in 1804 William T. Barry, seventh United States Postmaster General, Secretary of State of Kentucky, Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky, U.S. House of Representatives from Kentucky James G. Birney, abolitionist, politician and jurist, served in the Kentucky House of Representatives Richard Mentor Johnson, Vice President of the United States Stephen F. Austin, founder of Texas, left without graduating in 1810. Secured a certificate stating that he had "conducted himself in a exemplary & praiseworthy manner" according to Gregg Cantrell's biography William A. Trimble, U.S. Senator, graduated 1810 Francis Preston Blair, politician and editor of the Washington Globe, graduated 1811 William Orlando Butler, U.S. Representative and U.S. Army major general from Kentucky Alexander Campbell, Senator from Ohio David Grant Colson, U.S. Representative from Kentucky Charles S. Morehead, U.S. Representative from Kentucky and Governor of Kentucky, graduated 1820 Jefferson Davis, President of the