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Virginia Tech Hokies football
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The Virginia Tech Hokies football team, represents Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in the sport of American football. The Hokies compete in the Football Bowl Subdivision of the National Collegiate Athletic Association and they previously competed in the Big East. Their home games are played at Lane Stadium, located in Blacksburg, Lane Stadium is considered to be one of the loudest stadiums in the country, being voted number one in ESPNs Top 20 Scariest Places to Play. Also, it was recognized in 2005 by Rivals. com as having the best home-field advantage in the country and it is currently the 31st largest stadium in college football. In 124 seasons, the Hokies have won over 700 games and appeared in 30 bowl games, with 24 consecutive bowl appearances, beginning in 1993, the Hokies currently have the longest bowl game streak in the country recognized by the NCAA. The program has claimed ten conference titles and produced eight All-Americans. Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College first played football on October 21,1892 against St. Albans Lutheran Boys School, the game took place on a plowed off wheat field that was about as level as a side of Brush Mountain. The Hokies won their first game 14–10, but were defeated 10–0 eight days later on a trip to Radford. The 1899,1901, and 1903 teams lost only to rival Virginia, star player Hunter Carpenter returned to Virginia Tech in 1905, after a year at the University of North Carolina, for a last shot at beating Virginia. Carpenter helped lead VPI to a 9–1 record, the best in history up to that time. He was never named to the All-America team only because Walter Camp, the 1909 team claim a southern championship. This is the first season the team was referred to in print as the Gobblers, at the end of the 1911 season, VPI joined the South Atlantic Intercollegiate Athletic Association. They won the conference in 1916 and 1918, after 1921, the SAIAA was dissolved and six of its schools became founding members of the Southern Conference. From 1925 to 1928, Tech was led by Frank Peake and he was joined by Scotty MacArthur, Herbert Mac McEver and Tommy Tomko. In 1927, during a 6 to 0 upset of the Colgate Red Raiders in New York, Peake ran for nearly 200 yards, during one three-game stretch, he accumulated rushing and return yardage of 306,314 and 353 yards. He was credited with gaining 1,761 yards in eight games,930 were from scrimmage, and 831 on punts and kickoffs. In 1928 the game against Virginia he came off the sideline with a hip to return a punt for a touchdown. In 1932, Tech upset Georgia 7–6, Bill Grinus blocked the tying extra point
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Virginia Tech
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Through its Corps of Cadets ROTC program, Virginia Tech is also designated as one of six senior military colleges in the country. Under the 1891–1907 presidency of John M. McBryde, the school organized its academic programs into a traditional four-year college, the evolution of the schools programs led to a name change in 1896 to Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute. The Agricultural and Mechanical College portion of the name was popularly omitted almost immediately, in 1944, in 1923, VPI changed a policy of compulsory participation in the Corps of Cadets from four years to two years. In 1931, VPI began teaching classes at the Norfolk Division of the College of William and this program eventually developed into a two-year engineering program that allowed students to transfer to VPI for their final two years of degree work. In 1943, VPI merged with nearby Radford State Teachers College, which became VPIs womens division, today, Radford University enrolls more than 9,900 students and offers more than 150 undergraduate and graduate programs. During Hahns tenure, not only did the university graduate its first Rhodes Scholar, lewis, Class of 1963, the requirement for male students to participate in the Corps of Cadets for two years was dropped. Beginning in the fall 1973, women could participate in the corps, in 1970, the state legislature allowed VPI university status and gave it the present legal name, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. However, diplomas and transcripts still spell out the formal name, similarly, the abbreviation VT is far more common today than either VPI or VPI&SU. The early decades of this century have seen expansion across the universitys institutions in both physical and population sizes, former President Charles Steger brought Virginia Tech an allopathic medical school in 2007. The Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine and Research Institute was created with a partnership with the Carilion Clinic. These years also brought about the development of the universitys professional schools of graduate education. Virginia Tech brought in over a half-billion in research expenditures in 2014, on April 16,2007, Virginia Tech student Seung-Hui Cho fatally shot 32 faculty members and students, wounding 17 others before killing himself on campus. The massacre is the deadliest mass shooting on a college campus, although it was at the time the deadliest mass shooting committed by a lone gunman in U. S. history, it has since been surpassed by the 2016 Orlando nightclub shooting. These colleges/schools include, Virginia Tech received a number of nearly 22,500 applications for the fall 2015 freshman class. The typical student offered admission had a grade point average of 4.00. The average cumulative SAT score was 1250, with a middle range ranging from 1160 to 1340, of the 5,518 students who accepted the offers of admission,18 percent accepted under the Early Decision Plan. The Office of Undergraduate Admissions is located within the Visitor and Undergraduate Admissions Center, once admitted, Honors students are required to maintain a 3.5 GPA in order to remain in the program. For the 2013–14 academic year, the Graduate School at Virginia Tech enrolled 6,723 graduate students in its masters, the Pamplin College of Business, received 381 applications for its incoming Evening MBA program, and offered admission to 142
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Emory and Henry Wasps
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The Emory & Henry Wasps are the athletic teams that represent Emory and Henry College, located in Emory, Virginia, in NCAA Division III intercollegiate sports. The Wasps compete as members of the Old Dominion Athletic Conference, altogether, Emory & Henry sponsors 15 sports,7 for men and 8 for women. The Emory and Henry football team came under investigation for alleged violations of NCAA bylaws in 2014, the allegations came to public attention after the resignation of former coach Don Montgomery from the football program and departure of the Colleges president, Dr. Rosalind Reichard. The student newspaper reported that allegations were due to lack of control of the athletic department The official Emory and Henry mascot is the Wasps. Though Emory and Henry was beaten 27–0, legend has it that the paper declared that those Virginia boys stung like wasps. The Emory and Henry basketball teams unofficial mascot is a dog named Pete, Pete is a reference to the late Emory and Henry basketball coach Bob Johnsons Labrador retriever. Pete was often seen sitting beside Coach Johnson during games at the King Center, the E&H Wasps are credited with inventing an American football offensive formation, named in the colleges honor, that divides the offensive line and wide receivers into three groupings of three. The formation is featured on EA Sports NCAA Football 07 video game as well, E&H also boasted the nations longest home game winning streak in 1999 at 37 games. In 2004, Yall magazine listed Emory and Henry among the 40 colleges and universities in the South with the greatest football traditions, not to be overshadowed by neighboring Division I powerhouses. Winning seasons plus pride and pageantry equals one of the greatest Southern football traditions. The Wasps oldest current football rival is Hampden-Sydney College who first played the Wasps in 1922, Emory and Henry College has had three players drafted to the NFL over the years. The most notable being Sonny Wade who went on to several years in the CFL
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Emory, Virginia
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Emory is a census-designated place in Washington County, Virginia, United States. The population was 1,251 at the 2010 census, the Emory post office was established in 1847. The community is named for and is the location of Emory and Henry College
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Randolph-Macon Academy
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Randolph-Macon Academy is a coeducational college preparatory school for students in grades 6–12 and postgraduates in Front Royal, Virginia, US. The school was founded in 1892 and features both boarding and day programs, Randolph-Macon Academy is affiliated with the United Methodist Church. The 135-acre campus overlooks Front Royal, and is located 70 miles west of Washington and it is one of six private military schools in Virginia. Upper school students are required to participate in the Air Force JROTC program, the program focuses on teaching leadership skills, citizenship responsibilities, and the importance of community service. In 2012, R-MA became one of eight schools in the U. S. to be named a Falcon Foundation School, in addition, the school hosts the only private in-house aviation program in the nation. The Academy owns two Cessna 172s, and the instructors, Ryan Koch and Laura Abraham, are members of the Academy faculty. The middle school campus is less than a quarter-mile away from the school campus. This campus provides a separate dorm and classrooms for the younger students, advanced students may go to the upper school campus to take high school courses. Extracurricular opportunities at the school include the Speech and Debate team, twenty varsity sports, band, chorus, drama, color guard, the athletic teams are affiliated with the Delaney Athletic Conference, a collection of several independent schools in northern and central Virginia. The Middle School participates in the Valley Middle School Conference,1892, Randolph-Macon Academy was founded by Dr. William W. Smith as part of the Randolph-Macon College preparatory school program. The original 26-acre campus had one building which housed classrooms as well as dormitories. The original building that was built resembled a castle in its design,1918, Randolph-Macon Academy transformed into a military school. The program later undertook the title of the National Defense Cadet Corps,1922, Randolph-Macon Academy finished paying off all but one of its original debts. Later this year, the construction of Rives Hall began and this new building served as an auxiliary gymnasium. 1927, On January 10, the building built in 1892 burned down completely. The origin of the fire destroyed the building is unknown. As a new building was being constructed, the continued to operate. The cadets were housed by local residents and classes took place in buildings until a new building
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Bedford, Virginia
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Bedford is an incorporated town and former independent city located within Bedford County in the U. S. state of Virginia. It serves as the county seat of Bedford County, as of the 2010 census, the population was 6,622. It is part of the Lynchburg Metropolitan Statistical Area, known as the place that sells itself, Bedford boasts the Blue Ridge Mountains to the North, Smith Mountain Lake to the South, Lynchburg to the East, and I-81/Roanoke to the West. Bedford is home to the National D-Day Memorial, the United States Congress warranted that this memorial would be the nations D-Day Memorial and President Bill Clinton authorized this effort in September 1996. President George W. Bush dedicated this memorial as the nations D-Day memorial on June 6,2001, Bedford lost more residents per capita in the Normandy landings than any other American community. Nineteen soldiers from Bedford, whose 1944 population was about 3,200, were killed on D-Day, three other Bedford soldiers died later in the Normandy campaign. Proportionally this community suffered the nations severest D-Day losses, Bedford maintains relationships with 11 communities on the Normandy Coast of France. One sister city, Trévières, France, sent Bedford an exact replica of its own World War I memorial statue, the face of the statue was damaged in World War II by artillery fire from US forces retaking the town. The Bedford statue also bears these wounds and is erected on the grounds of the National D-Day Memorial, Bedford was originally known as Liberty, named after the Colonial victory over Cornwallis at Yorktown. Founded as a village in 1782, Liberty became Bedford Countys seat of government, Liberty became a town in 1839 and in 1890 changed its name to Bedford City. In 1912 Bedford reverted to town status, then in 1968, on September 14,2011, the Bedford City Council voted to transition into a town, ending its independent city status. The supervisors of Bedford County also voted to accept the town of Bedford as part of the county when it lost city status, the transition occurred on July 1,2013. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 6.9 square miles. Bedford sits at the feet of the Peaks of Otter, as of the census of 2000, there were 6,299 people,2,519 households, and 1,592 families residing in the city. The population density was 914.5 persons per square mile, there were 2,702 housing units at an average density of 392.3 per square mile. The racial makeup of the city was 75. 33% White,22. 38% Black or African American,0. 24% Native American,0. 57% Asian,0. 08% Pacific Islander,0. 24% from other races, and 1. 16% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0. 89% of the population,33. 0% of all households were made up of individuals and 15. 7% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.26 and the family size was 2.87
