Games

From its very inception, the University has been a nursery of outstanding sportsmen and players, and it has maintained this interest and tradition with great fervour.

	Cricket Club is the oldest one and was established in 1878. Football, Hockey, Tennis, Athletics, Riding, Badminton and Swimming Clubs are also quite old. Clubs for Basket Ball, Hiking and Mountaineering, Skating, Gymkhana etc., were established later on.Aligarh is the only University in the country with a century old Riding Club and the Riding squad, with 19 horses. The Riding Club has won several All India prizes in different
competitions. The University Games Committee consists of 19 main clubs and 7 sub-clubs. Aligarh has given the country some of the best sportsmen. Ghouse Mohammad, Khawaja Saeed Hai, Irshad Ghouse, Adil Ghouse, Mohammad Tahir and Amir Alvi learnt their Tennis at Aligarh. The
	University has also produced many outstanding cricketers including Wazir Ali, Nazir Ali, Lala Amar Nath, C.S.Naidu, Mushtaq Ali, Ali Hasan and Mohammad Shahid.In the field of Hockey, Aligarh has produced several national stars including Mohammad Jafar Masood Minhas, Ali Saeed, Inamur Rehman and Govinda played for India. Abdul Qayyum, Anwar Ahmad Khan for Pakistan and Doraswamy for Malaysia.
Zafar Iqbal was India’s hockey captain in the mid 1980s. Guru Sewak Singh, Joginder Singh and Aslam Sher Khan were other distinguished players of Hockey. Karim Shelly, Mahmood Khabbazi, Jamshed Nasiri, Majid Bashkar, Ahmad Sanjari and Ali Khodai made a name in football while Ranvir Singh, Mazhar Khan, Mohammad Ishtiaq and Sarohi excelled as athletics. The University has separate fields for cricket, hockey, football, tennis and athletics; indoor facilities like billiards, chess, carrom, table tennis, and badminton are also available for boys and girls students separately.