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North Carolina Tar Heels football
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The North Carolina Tar Heels football team represents the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the sport of American football. The Tar Heels have played in the Football Bowl Subdivision of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, being the oldest public university and oldest collegiate team in the Carolinas, the school is nicknamed Carolina in athletics. The programs title in football is Carolina Football, North Carolina has played in 31 bowl games in its history and won three Southern Conference championships and five Atlantic Coast Conference titles. Thirty Tar Heel players have been honored as first-team All-Americas on 38 occasions, Carolina had 32 All-Southern Conference selections when it played in that league until 1952 and since joining the ACC in 1953, has had 174 first-team All-ACC choices. Since joining the Atlantic Coast Conference in 1953, the team has won five conference championships, one very important contribution to the game of football by Carolina is the modern use of the forward pass, they were the first college team to use the play in 1895. It was conceived to break a deadlock and give UNC a 6–0 win. The Tar Heels were in a situation and a Georgia rush seemed destined to block the ball. The punter, with a dash to his right, tossed the ball and it was caught by George Stephens. The University of North Carolina fielded its first football team in 1888, Hector Cowan was Carolinas first head football coach. The Tar Heels played four games with a record of 1–3. The team captains for the 1888 season were Bob Bingham and Steve Bragaw, the game against Wake Forest was the first in the state, and the first against Trinity the first scientific game in the state. Ergo, one or the other is the first intercollegiate game in North Carolina, princeton star Hector Cowan traveled south and trained the team. In 1889, UNC played two games with a record of 1–1. The University would not field another team until 1891. The team captains for the 1889 season were Lacy Little and Steve Bragaw, William A. Reynolds coached the Tar Heels for four seasons. In 1897, Carolina played ten games with a record of 7–3. The team captain for the 1897 season was Arthur Belden, in 1898, the Tar Heels played nine games with a final record of 9–0. The team captain for the 1898 season was Frank O. Rogers, the team claimed a Southern championship
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1895 Michigan Wolverines football team
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The 1895 Michigan Wolverines football team represented the University of Michigan in the 1895 college football season. The team, coached by medical student William McCauley, compiled an 8–1 record, won seven of their games by shutouts, the 1895 Wolverines won their first five games by a combined score of 220 to 0. The sole loss of the season was a 4–0 setback against the Harvard Crimson, Michigan finished the season with a 12–0 win over Western rival, Amos Alonzo Staggs Chicago Maroons. Undefeated against Western opponents, the 1895 Wolverines laid claim to the Western football championship, on October 5,1895, Michigan defeated the Michigan Military Academy from Orchard Lake, Michigan, by a score of 31 to 0. The game was played in 20-minute halves at Regents Field in Ann Arbor, a newspaper account of the game noted that the score would have been more lopsided except that the Wolverines gave up the ball several times on fouls and off-sides. The account also reported that Michigan showed up better than last year at this time in every feature of the game. The following week, the Wolverines had a game against the Detroit Athletic Club. Michigan scored the first touchdown of the game 30 seconds after the game had commenced on a 70-yard end run by the quarterback and Wyoming-native, fullback John Bloomingston from Chicago was the high scorer with 14 points on a touchdown and five goals after touchdown. Halfback John W. Hollister was the second highest scorer with three touchdowns, tackle Jesse Yont from Nebraska also added a touchdown, as Michigan won by a score of 42 to 0. In the third game of the season, Michigan defeated the team from Clevelands Western Reserve, also known at the time as Adelbert College, the game was played in 40-minute halves at Regents Field on October 19,1895. The margin of victory was a surprise as Adelbert had won the Western football championship in 1894 and had narrowly lost to Eastern football power Cornell the previous week by a score of 12 to 4. Against Michigan, however, Adelbert had the only five or six minutes in the entire games and. Bloomingston led the scoring with 32 points on three touchdowns and ten kicks for goals from touchdown, tackle Giovanni Count Villa, from Walla Walla, Washington, and end Henry M. Senter, from Houghton, Michigan, each scored two touchdowns. Yont, Richards, and halfback Gustave Dutch Ferbert, from Cleveland, a Chicago newspaper described Michigans performance as follows, Michigans advantage in weight was great and the interference and general team plays showed great improvement. Michigans gain was on the short and fast dashes through the line and close in on the end. Michigans fourth game of the season was a game against Rush Lake Forest. Michigan won the game by a score of 40 to 0, on November 2,1895, Michigan played Oberlin College at Regents Field. The Wolverines won their fifth consecutive shutout, outscoring Oberlin 42 to 0, a newspaper account of the game reported, Michigan was crippled by the absence of Baird, Senter and Hall, but the play showed improvement over last week
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Iowa State Cyclones football
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The Iowa State Cyclones football is the football team at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa. The team is coached by Matt Campbell, the Cyclones compete in the Big 12 Conference, and are currently a Division I Football Bowl Subdivision member of the NCAA. The Cyclones play their games at Jack Trice Stadium, with a capacity of 61,500. Football first made its way onto the Iowa State campus in 1878 as a recreational sport, in 1894, college president William M. Beardshear spearheaded the foundation of an athletic association to officially sanction Iowa State football teams. The 1894 team finished with a 6–1 mark, including a 16–8 victory over what is now the University of Iowa, one of the pioneers of football, Pop Warner, spent time at Iowa State early in his career. Soon after Warner left for Georgia, Iowa State had its first game of the season, Iowa State came into Evanston as the underdog Iowa State then defeated Northwestern 36–0. A Chicago sportswriter called the team cornfed giants from Iowa while the Chicago Tribunes headline read, since then, Iowa State teams have been known as the Cyclones. Overall, the team had three wins and three losses and, like Georgia, Iowa State retained Warner for the next season, in 1896 the team had eight wins and two losses. Despite leaving Cornell in 1898, Warner remained as the coach of Iowa State for another year. During his last three years at Iowa State the team had a season but Warner was unable to match his 1896 triumph. After playing at Iowa and then serving as an assistant coach for two years, Clyde Williams came to Ames as an assistant coach for ISU, Williams served as the Cyclones head football coach for six seasons from 1907 to 1912. During that time, he had a record of 32–15–2. This ranks him fifth at Iowa State in total wins and fourth at Iowa State in winning percentage, in addition, he led Iowa State to two Missouri Valley Conference football titles in 1911 and 1912, which are currently the only two conference football championships in school history. In addition to his football contributions Williams was the schools first mens basketball coach from 1908 to 1911 and he also served as Iowa States baseball coach, and was their athletic director from 1914 to 1919. In 1914 Iowa State completed construction of their new football field, Williams was inducted into the State of Iowa Hall of Fame in 1956. He is also one of the few people inducted into both the University of Iowa Athletics Hall of Fame and the Iowa State athletics Hall of Fame, the success Iowa State found in the inception of their football program was not replicated for most of the mid-20th century. In 1922 after having two different head coaches in as many years, ISU hired up-and-comer Sam Willaman away from East Technical HS in Cleveland, when Willaman came to Iowa state, he brought with him six of his former East Tech players, including an African-American, Jack Trice. Trice was the first African-American player at Iowa State, and one of the first to play football in the mid-west, Trice suffered a severe malicious injury during a game at the Minnesota in 1923, and died from complications
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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, also known as UNC, or simply Carolina, is a public research university located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States. It is one of the 17 campuses of the University of North Carolina system, the first public institution of higher education in North Carolina, the school opened its doors to students on February 12,1795. The university offers degrees in over 70 courses of study through fourteen colleges, in 1952, North Carolina opened its own hospital, UNC Health Care, for research and treatment, and has since specialized in cancer care. The schools students, alumni, and sports teams are known as Tar Heels, the campus covers 729 acres of Chapel Hills downtown area, encompassing the Morehead Planetarium and the many stores and shops located on Franklin Street. Students can participate in over 550 officially recognized student organizations, the student-run newspaper The Daily Tar Heel has won national awards for collegiate media, while the student radio station WXYC provided the worlds first internet radio broadcast. North Carolina is one of the members of the Atlantic Coast Conference. Competing athletically as the Tar Heels, North Carolina has achieved success in sports, most notably in mens basketball, womens soccer. As a result, Womans College was renamed the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, in 1955, UNC Chapel Hill officially desegregated its undergraduate divisions. During World War II, UNC Chapel Hill was one of 131 colleges and universities nationally that took part in the V-12 Navy College Training Program which offered students a path to a Navy commission, during the 1960s, the campus was the location of significant political protest. Prior to the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, protests about local racial segregation which began quietly in Franklin Street restaurants led to mass demonstrations, the climate of civil unrest prompted the 1963 Speaker Ban Law prohibiting speeches by communists on state campuses in North Carolina. The law was criticized by university Chancellor William Brantley Aycock and university President William Friday. A group of UNC Chapel Hill students, led by Student Body President Paul Dickson, filed a lawsuit in U. S. federal court, and on February 20,1968, the Speaker Ban Law was struck down. From the late 1990s and onward, UNC Chapel Hill expanded rapidly with a 15% increase in student population to more than 28,000 by 2007. Professor Oliver Smithies was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2007 for his work in genetics, additionally, Aziz Sancar was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2015 for his work in understanding the molecular repair mechanisms of DNA. The current chancellor is Carol Folt, the first woman to hold the post, UNC Chapel Hills 729-acre campus is dominated by two central quads, Polk Place and McCorkle Place. Adjacent to Polk Place is a sunken brick courtyard known as the Pit where students will gather, the Morehead–Patterson Bell Tower, located in the heart of campus, tolls the quarter-hour. In 1999, UNC Chapel Hill was one of sixteen recipients of the American Society of Landscape Architects Medallion Awards and was identified as one of 50 college or university works of art by T. A, gaines in his book The Campus as a Work of Art. The universitys campus is divided into three regions, usually referred to as north campus, middle campus, and south campus
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NC State Wolfpack football
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The NC State Wolfpack football team represents North Carolina State University in the sport of American football. The Wolfpack competes in the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, prior to joining the ACC in 1953, the Wolfpack were a member of the Southern Conference. As a member of the ACC, the Wolfpack has won seven championships and participated in 30 bowl games. NC State is currently coached by Dave Doeren, in their latest season under Doeren, the Wolfpack finished 7-6 after a 41-17 victory over Vanderbilt in the Independence Bowl. Since 1966, the Wolfpack has played its games at Carter-Finley Stadium. On September 16,2010, NC State restored the tradition of having a mascot on the field as a wolf-like Tamaskan Dog named Tuffy was on the sidelines for the Cincinnati game in Raleigh. Since then, Tuffy has not missed a Wolfpack football game in Carter-Finley Stadium, NC State played its first football game against a team from the Raleigh Male Academy on March 12,1892 in what is now Pullen Park. The Aggies, whose colors were blue and pink, won 12-6 in front of more than 200 spectators, the following year, the school played its first intercollegiate game, a 12-6 victory over Tennessee College. The programs long-standing rivalry with nearby University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill began on October 12,1894 with a 44-0 UNC victory in Chapel Hill, eight days later, the team lost again to UNC, 16-0 in Raleigh. In 1895, under third-year coach Bart Gatling, the team wore red, over the next five seasons the program continued to try to establish itself, achieving only one winning season during the period. The football team has only had scholarship football players since 1933. In 1906, in a game against Randolph-Macon in Raleigh, the Farmers attempted their first forward pass, the following season was the programs most successful yet. Under coach Mickey Whitehurst, A&M won the South Atlantic Intercollegiate Athletic Association championship with a 6–0–1 record and that season, the program also recorded its first ever victory over Virginia. The Farmers played their games that season on campus at the New Athletic Park. In addition to Pullen Park, the fairgrounds had hosted some games prior to the opening of the new stadium. The team won a second South Atlantic championship in 1910 under coach Edward Green, a win over Virginia Tech in Norfolk that season was dubbed the biggest game ever played in the South. Coach Green led team to a conference championship in 1913. The 1918 season was cut due to the United States entrance into World War I
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Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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Chapel Hill is a city in Orange County, North Carolina, and the home of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and UNC Health Care. The population was 57,233 at the 2010 census, Chapel Hill is the 15th-largest city in North Carolina. Chapel Hill, Durham, and Raleigh make up the three corners of the Research Triangle, so named in 1959 with the creation of Research Triangle Park, a research park between Durham and Raleigh. Chapel Hill is one of the cities of the Durham-Chapel Hill MSA. Chapel Hill sits atop a hill which was occupied by a small Anglican chapel of ease, built in 1752. The Carolina Inn now occupies the site of the original chapel, in 1819, the town was founded to serve the University of North Carolina and grew up around it. The town was chartered in 1851, and its main street, in 1968, only a year after its schools became fully integrated, Chapel Hill became the first predominantly white municipality in the South to elect an African American mayor, Howard Lee. Lee served from 1969 until 1975 and, among other things, helped establish Chapel Hill Transit, several hybrid and articulated buses have been added recently. All buses carry GPS transmitters to report their location in time to a tracking web site. Buses can transport bicycles and have wheelchair lifts, in 1993, the town celebrated its bicentennial, which resulted in the establishment of the Chapel Hill Museum. On February 10,2015, three students were killed in their home, Finley Forest Condominiums, next to the Friday Center for Continuing Education. Their next-door neighbor, Craig Stephen Hicks, was arrested by police, Chapel Hill is located in the southeast corner of Orange County. It is bounded on the west by the town of Carrboro, however, most of Chapel Hills borders are adjacent to unincorporated portions of Orange and Durham Counties rather than shared with another municipality. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has an area of 21.3 square miles. Durham, North Carolina, is the core of the four-county Durham-Chapel Hill MSA, the US Office of Management and Budget also includes Chapel Hill as a part of the Raleigh-Durham-Cary Combined Statistical Area, which has a population of 1,749,525 as of Census 2010. According to the 2010 U. S. Census,57,233 people in 20,564 households resided in Chapel Hill, the population density was 2,687 people per square mile. The racial composition of the town was 72. 8% White,9. 7% African American,0. 3% Native American,11. 9% Asian,0. 02% Pacific Islander,2. 7% some other race, and 2. 7% of two or more races. About 6. 4% of the population was Hispanic or Latino of any race, about 30. 6% of all households were made up of individuals, and 7. 7% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older
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