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The school's sports teams are called the Little Giants. They participate in the NCAA's Division III and in the North Coast Athletic Conference. Every year since 1911, Wabash College plays rival DePauw University in the Monon Bell Classic.
Wabash College is a member of the Great Lakes Colleges Association.
Over its nearly two hundred years of history, Wabash faculty has included such influential intellectuals as poet Ezra Pound.
Wabash, Hampden-Sydney College and Morehouse College are the only three remaining all-male liberal arts colleges in the United States. In contrast, there are many more all-female liberal arts colleges.
A substantial endowment places Wabash amongst the top 120 colleges and universities in the nation, and on a per-student basis, amongst the top 25. This endowment drives a generous scholarship program. The benefactors that have funded this endowment include the pharmaceutical industrialist Eli Lilly, the company he founded, and his heirs. The school's library, named after Lilly, houses a portion of the Eli Lilly company archives, along with Earlham CollegeEarlham College is a Quaker liberal arts college in Richmond, Indiana. It was founded in 1847 and has about 1,170 students. Its current president is Doug Bennett, assisted by Newell Pledger-Shinn. Among its notable graduates are Wendell Stanley, winner of, Connor Prairie, and the Indiana Historical Society.
Notable alumni include professional football player Pete Metzelaars, author Dan SimmonsDan Simmons (born April 4, 1948 in Peoria, Illinois) is an author most widely known for his Hugo Award-winning science fiction novel Hyperion and its sequel The Fall of Hyperion''. The other novels in this series, the "Hyperion Cantos," are Endymion and T (who dedicated his novel Illium to the college), and one-time AT&TAT&T formerly an abbreviation for American Telephone and Telegraph Corporation is an American telecommunications company, publicly listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol T . AT&T provides voice, video, data, and Internet telecommuni CEO Robert Allen (after whom the fieldhouse is named).