primarily a regional college, with 72% of incoming freshmen coming from Pennsylvania, New Jersey, or New York, but the school also receives a variety of applicants with admissions granted from the West Coast, including students from California, Oregon, and Arizona. In its 2022 rankings, U.S. News & World Report placed the college at 76th among national liberal-arts colleges. Forbes ranked Muhlenberg 82nd on their list of the best liberal-arts colleges in the United States. Princeton Review lists Muhlenberg as one of the best colleges in the northeast out of a total number of 218 ranked colleges. As of 2016, the college's theatre program was ranked first in the nation by Princeton Review, its food 16th in the nation, and the college was chosen as one of the "Top 286 Green Colleges" in the country in rankings developed in collaboration with the U.S. Green Building Council. Muhlenberg College was also named as one of the Lehigh Valley's Top Workplaces in 2013. Athletics Muhlenberg College athletic teams are the Muhlenberg Mules and compete in NCAA Division III. The college has 22 intercollegiate sports, which belong to either the Centennial Conference or Eastern College Athletic Conference. Both men's and women's teams exist for basketball, cross country, golf, lacrosse, soccer, tennis, and track and field. Men's teams exist for baseball, football, and wrestling; women have teams for softball, field hockey, and volleyball. In 2004, additional athletic facilities were built west of the field house. Updated tennis courts were built in 2003 and two fields were added in 1997 and 1998. The baseball and softball teams do not have on-campus facilities. The football, field hockey, and track and field teams each perform at Scotty Wood Stadium, at 3400 West Chew Street, on the Muhlenberg College campus. Football Football was Muhlenberg's first official varsity sport, beginning in 1900. Doggie Julian was the head football coach at Muhlenberg from 1936 to 1944; his career record was 56–49–2. Julian was also the head basketball coach during this time and the head baseball coach from 1942 to 1944. In 1946, Ben Schwartzwalder became head football coach. In his first season, he guided the Mules to a 9–1 record and a national championship with Muhlenberg defeating St. Bonaventure University in the Tobacco Bowl. The following year, in the 1947 season, Schwartzwalder again led the Mules to a 9–1 record; the season's only loss came by one point, in a 7–6