 Interscholastic athletics at Baltimore City College date back over 120 years . Though varsity sports were not formally organized until 1895 , interscholastic athletics became a fixture at the school earlier in the 19th century . In the late @-@ 1890s , City competed in the Maryland Intercollegiate Football Association ( MIFA ) , a 9 @-@ member league consisting of colleges in Washington , D.C. and Maryland . City College was the lone secondary school among MIFA membership . The 1895 football schedule included St. John 's College , Swarthmore College , the United States Naval Academy , University of Maryland , and Washington College . Between 1894 and 1920 , City College regularly faced off against the Johns Hopkins Blue Jays and the Navy Midshipmen in lacrosse . 
