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Notre Dame Fighting Irish football
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The Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team is the intercollegiate football team representing the University of Notre Dame in Notre Dame, Indiana. The team is coached by Brian Kelly. The team plays its games at the campuss Notre Dame Stadium. One of the most iconic and successful programs in sports, have 13 national championships recognized by the NCAA. With 486 players selected, Notre Dame is second to USC in the number of players chosen by NFL teams in the draft, all Notre Dame home games have been televised on NBC since 1991, and Notre Dame is the only school to have such a contract. It was the only independent program to be part of the Bowl Championship Series coalition and its guaranteed payout and these factors help make Notre Dame one of the most financially valuable football programs in the country, allowing them to remain independent of a conference. Football did not have a beginning at the University of Notre Dame. In their inaugural game on November 23,1887, the Irish lost to Michigan by a score of 8–0 and their first win came in the final game of the 1888 season when the Irish defeated Harvard Prep by a score of 20–0. At the end of the 1888 season they had a record of 1–3 with all three losses being at the hands of Michigan by a score of 43–9. Between 1887 and 1899 Notre Dame compiled a record of 31 wins,15 losses, in 1908, the win over Franklin saw end Fay Wood catch the first touchdown pass in Notre Dame history. By the end of the 1912 season they had amassed a record of 108 wins,31 losses, jesse Harper became head coach in 1913 and remained so until he retired in 1917. During his tenure the Irish began playing only intercollegiate games and posted a record of 34 wins, five losses and this period would also mark the beginning of the rivalry with Army and the continuation of rivalries with Michigan State. In 1913, Notre Dame burst into the consciousness and helped to transform the collegiate game in a single contest. In an effort to respect for a regionally successful but small-time Midwestern football program, Harper scheduled games in his first season with national powerhouses Texas, Penn State. On November 1,1913, the Notre Dame squad stunned the Black Knights of the Hudson 35–13 in a game played at West Point and this game has been miscredited as the invention of the forward pass. Knute Rockne became head coach in 1918, under Rockne, the Irish would post a record of 105 wins,12 losses, and five ties. During his 13 years the Irish won three championships, had five undefeated seasons, won the Rose Bowl in 1925, and produced players such as George Gipp. Knute Rockne has the highest winning percentage in NCAA Division I/FBS football history, Rocknes offenses employed the Notre Dame Box and his defenses ran a 7–2–2 scheme
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Cartier Field
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Cartier Field was a stadium in Notre Dame, Indiana. It hosted the University of Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team from 1900 to 1928, the stands were torn down after the 1928 season to make room for Notre Dame Stadium, which opened in 1930. Notre Dame played its entire 1929 schedule away from campus, but nevertheless went 9-0, at Coach Knute Rocknes insistence, Cartier Fields grass was transplanted into Notre Dame Stadium. For more than 30 years after the team moved out, Cartier Field remained the home of Notre Dames baseball and track. In 1962, the original Cartier Field was replaced by a quadrangle adjoining the Memorial Library, which opened in 1963, and a new facility named Cartier Field was opened east of Notre Dame Stadium. Since 2008, the Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team has held outdoor practices at the LaBar Football Practice Fields, and indoor practices at Meyo Field in the Loftus Center. It was named after Warren A. Cartier, an 1887 civil engineering graduate and former member of the team who purchased 10 acres. He also paid for furnishing the lumber required to enclose the Field with fencing and furnished the lumber required for a grandstand
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1893 Princeton Tigers football team
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The 1893 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1893 college football season. The team finished with an 11–0 record and was named as the national champion by the Billingsley Report, Helms Athletic Foundation, Houlgate System. They outscored their opponents 270 to 14, both teams entered the game with undefeated with records of 10–0. Yale had outscored its opponents 336-6 and was riding a 37 game winning streak dating back to a loss to Harvard in 1890, Princeton had outscored its opponents by a cumulative total of 264–14, and was seeking to avenge its 12–0 loss to Yale the previous year. A crowd of 40,000, the largest ever to see a game up to that time. Three-time Consensus All-American Phil King led Princeton into the game and he would later head the Princeton Football Association and help coach. King had just developed the double wingback formation with the ends deployed on the wings of the line, from the double wingback formation, Princeton precisely executed a complete set of plays and completely befuddled the Yale eleven, captained by college football Hall of Famer Frank Hinkey. The New York Sun noted that “Princeton in 1893 had the finest offensive machine it had developed up to this time – a team with continuity of attack, however, the game did not pass without engendering some controversy. The New York Herald declared in a commentary, Thanksgiving Day is no longer a solemn festival to God for mercies given. It is a holiday granted by the State and the Nation to see a game of football, the kicker now is king and the people bow down to him. The gory nosed tackler, hero of a hundred scrimmages and half as many wrecked wedges, is the idol of the hour, with swollen face and bleeding head, daubed from crown to sole with the mud of Manhattan Field, he stands triumphant amid the cheers of thousands. What matters that the purpose of the day is perverted, that church is foregone, that family reunion is neglected, has not Princeton played a mighty game with Yale and has not Princeton won. This is the modern Thanksgiving Day, the Yale-Princeton Thanksgiving Day game of 1893 earned $13,000 for each school from gate receipts, as the big games became the primary source of revenue for the colleges athletic programs. Despite the loss, Yale was retroactively named champion by Parke H. Davis, and the Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book lists both Princeton and Yale as national champions
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Miami RedHawks football
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The Miami RedHawks football program represents Miami University, located in Oxford, Ohio, in college football at the NCAA Division I FBS level. The RedHawks compete in the Mid-American Conference and are known for producing several high-profile head coaches, the team is currently coached by Chuck Martin and play their home games at Yager Stadium. Miami University first fielded a team in 1888 with the mascot of the Redskins. There was no head coach in the teams first two seasons or from 1898–1899 nor was there a team fielded in 1890. The teams first head coach was C. K. Fauver, donnelly, the Redskins compiled a 14–8–2 record from 1912–1914. George Little was named Miamis head coach for the 1916 season succeeding Chester J. Roberts and his first team went 7–0–1 and won the Ohio Athletic Conference. This team gave up six points, all in a game against Wooster. Littles tenure was interrupted by his service in the forces during World War I. He served as a captain in the infantry from August 15,1917 and he returned and led the Redskins to a 7–1 record in 1919 and a 5–2–1 record in 1920. He once again won the Ohio Athletic Conference championship in 1921 with a perfect 8–0 record, the 1921 team scored 238 points during the season and gave up only 13. In his four years as Miamis head coach, Little compiled a record of 27–3–2 including 21 games where the opponent did not score a single point and he left Miami to become Fielding H. Yosts top assistant at Michigan. Chester Pittser served as football coach for the Redskins from 1924 through 1931 with a record of 41–25–2. Pittser came to Miami from Montana School of Mines where he coached football and basketball, while at Miami, he mentored future Pro Football Hall of Fame coaches, Paul Brown and Weeb Ewbank. Frank Wilton came to Miami from his post as an assistant coach at Stanford, in his first two years,1932 and 1933, he led the Redskins to Buckeye Intercollegiate Athletic Association championships. In those two years he only lost three games, two to Big Ten Conference teams Indiana and Illinois, the next two years his teams won only five games each year, but returned to championship form in 1936 with a 7–2 record and a share of the conference title. The Redskins slid to a 4–4–1 record in 1937, but rebounded in 1938 with a 6–3 record, the last three years of Wiltons tenure saw a drastic downturn in victories. The 1939,1940, and 1941 seasons produced a total of three wins, after the 1941 season he was replaced by Stu Holcomb. Shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Wilton resigned his duties at Miami, effective at the end of the school year and he left Miami with the most football wins in school history, a record he retained until Randy Walker surpassed him in 1997
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Howard Bison football
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The Howard Bison football team represents Howard University in college football. The Bison play in NCAA Division I Football Championship as a member of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference, the two schools call their intense rivalry The Real HU. Howard also has a rivalry with Morgan State University. Another of Howards historic rivals is Morehouse College, more known as the Howard/ Spel-House rivalry due to Morehouses close association with the all-womens HBCU Spelman College. This rivalry is not often played because Morehouse is a Division II athletic program, all wins from the 1987 season were vacated and the MEAC Championship was transferred to Delaware State, who had been the runner-up. B. ^ Rayford Petty was an assistant coach under Gary Harrell in 2011 and 2012, Gary Harrell stepped away from coaching Howard for the 2013 season for personal reasons, but remained under contract as the head coach to return in 2014. Rayford Petty was promoted to coach for the 2013 season only
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1893 Stanford football team
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) The 1893 Stanford football team represented Stanford University in the 1893 college football season. Pop Bliss, Stanford was undefeated, with one tie against rival California, the previous season, Stanford was coached by Walter Camp, who had agreed to coach the team on the condition that he complete coaching Yales football season first. For the 1893 season, Camp returned to the East Coast, pop Bliss, who had played halfback for Camps team at Yale and had just graduated. Led by Bliss, Stanford dominated its opponents, outscoring them 284–17 with seven shutouts and only one blemish and this was Blisss only season at Stanford, Camp returned to Stanford the next season and Bliss moved on to coach Haverford College
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1893 Auburn Tigers football team
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The 1893 Auburn Tigers football team represented Auburn University in the 1893 college football season. The squad was undefeated at 3–0–2 and outscored opponents 116–62, Auburn, then known as the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama, counts the February 22,1893, game versus Alabama towards the 1893 season, while Alabama counts it toward their 1892 season. Head coach D. M. Balliet led Auburn to a 32–22 victory in the game, george Roy Harvey coached the four games that Auburn played the following fall. List of the first college game in each US state
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Wesleyan University
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Wesleyan University is a private liberal arts college in Middletown, Connecticut, founded in 1831. About 20 unrelated colleges and universities were named after Wesley. Wesleyan, along with Amherst College and Williams College, is a member of the Little Three colleges, Three histories of Wesleyan have been published, Wesleyans First Century by Carl F. Potts. Wesleyan was founded as an all-male Methodist college in 1831, the University, established as an independent institution under the auspices of the Methodist conference, was led by Willbur Fisk, its first President. Despite its name, Wesleyan was never a denominational seminary and it also has maintained a larger library collection than institutions comparable in size. The Wesleyan student body numbered about 300 in 1910 and had grown to 800 in 1960, the latter being a figure that Time described as small. In 1872, the University became one of the first U. S. colleges to attempt coeducation by allowing a number of female students to attend. Given that concern, Wesleyan ceased to admit women, and from 1912 to 1970 Wesleyan operated again as an all-male college, Wesleyan became independent of the Methodist church in 1937, although in 2000, the university was designated as an historic Methodist site. The building program begun under this system created three residential colleges on Foss Hill and then three more residential colleges. Although the facilities were created, only four of the academic programs were begun. Fund raising proved highly effective and by 1960 Wesleyan had the largest endowment, per student, of any college or university in America, and a student-faculty ratio of 7,1. The University and several of its admissions deans were featured in Jacques Steinbergs 2002 book The Gatekeepers, Inside The Admissions Process of a Premier College. In the fall 2007 semester, Michael S. Roth, a 1978 graduate of Wesleyan, when Wesleyan University was founded in 1831, it took over a campus on which two buildings, North College and South College, had already been built in 1825. They were originally constructed by the City of Middletown for use by Captain Partridge’s American Literary, Scientific, in 1829, after the Connecticut legislature declined it a charter to grant college degrees, Capt. Alden Partridge moved his Academy to Northfield, Vermont. The Academy later became Norwich University and the Middletown buildings were acquired by Wesleyan, the book, Norwich University, 1819-1911, Vol. I, provides the following description of South College and North College. These buildings were constructed of sandstone from the quarries in Portland. The Barracks was four stories high,150 feet long and 52 feet wide, with a large attic, halls extended the full length of the building. The Lyceum was located 20 feet south of the Barracks, was three high, with a basement partly above the ground
