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Tulane Green Wave football
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The Tulane Green Wave football team represents Tulane University in the sport of American football. The Green Wave compete in the Football Bowl Subdivision of the National Collegiate Athletic Association as a member of the American Athletic Conference, the football team is coached by Willie Fritz, and plays its home games in Yulman Stadium on its campus in Uptown New Orleans. The Green Wave have played their games in Yulman Stadium on its Uptown campus since 2014. Prior to that season, Tulane played home games in the Mercedes-Benz Superdome for nearly 40 seasons, because Tulanes campus is landlocked within Uptown New Orleans, Yulman is tightly fit within its athletic footprint and directly abutting the surrounding neighborhood. The stadium has a capacity of 30,000 spectators and was constructed with the ability to expand, the Tulane University Marching Band was founded in 1920 as a military band. It dissolved shortly after the move to the Superdome in the 1970s. The TUMB performs at home games each fall and in Mardi Gras parades each spring, riptide the Pelican debuted in 1998 with the re-branding of Tulane athletics. Prior to that, the school used an angry wave nicknamed Gumby by fans, Tulanes biggest and oldest rival was LSU. It began in 1893 with a 34–0 Green Wave victory over the Tigers, the teams stopped meeting every year in the Battle for the Flag in 2009. Between 1979 and 1982, Tulane won three out of four games against the Tigers, the 1982 win was the last win to date, the two schools stopped playing annually after the 1994 game, however, they have met six times since. LSU lead the series 69–22–7 and won 45 of the final 50 games, as a condition of the broken series agreement made in 2006, a potential future game will be played in a future season in New Orleans. Known as the Battle for the Bell, Tulanes rivalry with Southern Miss was played yearly from 1979 until 2006, as a result of Conference USA splitting into East and West divisions in 2005, the game was played two out of every four years. The rivalry is paused indefinitely as a result of Tulanes move to The American Athletic Conference in 2014, Tulane has won nine conference football championships in four different conferences. Its three Southeastern Conference titles are more than seven current members of the SEC, Arkansas, Kentucky, Mississippi State, Missouri, South Carolina, Texas A&M, records current as of November 27,2015 Tulane has had 19 players named to first-team All-America teams. Of those 19, five were consensus selections, with one being a unanimous selection, the team has had 39 head coaches and 1 interim head coach since Tulane began playing football in 1893. While Tommy Bowden led the 1998 team to a perfect 11–0 regular season, six coaches led the team to conference championships, Clark Shaughnessy, Bernie Bierman, Ted Cox, Red Dawson, Henry E. Frnka, and Tommy Bowden. Clark Shaughnessy and Chris Scelfo are tied as the leaders in games coached at Tulane with 94 each. Clark Shaughnessy is the leader in years coached and total wins
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Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association
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The Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association was one of the first collegiate athletic conferences in the United States. Twenty-seven of the current Division I FBS football programs were members of this conference at some point, the SIAA was founded on December 21,1894, by Dr. William Dudley, a chemistry professor at Vanderbilt, at the Kimball House in Atlanta. Dudley was a member of the Vanderbilt Athletic Association, formed in 1886 with Dr. W. M. Baskerville as president, most students at Vanderbilt were members. The early sports played on the Vanderbilt campus were baseball, bicycling, Dudley was primarily responsible for the formation of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association. Sewanees opposition stopped it from occurring, the original members were Alabama, Auburn, Georgia, Johns Hopkins, North Carolina, Sewanee, Vanderbilt, and Virginia. Virginia and North Carolina soon dropped before the inaugural 1895 season, the conference was originally formed for the development and purification of college athletics throughout the South. In 1903, a single-game football playoff occurred, but it seems to have been coordinated more so by the two competing schools than the conference itself, several other efforts over the years by individual schools to hold a conference title game fell through. Most SIAA titles claimed by schools in sports were actually more mythical in nature than officially sanctioned by the league. In 1915, a disagreement arose within the conference regarding the eligibility of freshman athletes, generally, the larger universities opposed the eligibility of freshman players, while the smaller schools favored it. As a result, some of the universities formed the Southern Intercollegiate Conference. At the conferences annual meeting on December 10,1920, the SIAA rejected proposals to ban freshman athletes, in protest, some schools that had voted in favor of the propositions immediately announced they would seek to form a new conference. In 1922, the Southern Conference underwent an expansion and added six more members, all at the expense of the SIAA, Florida, Louisiana State, Mississippi, South Carolina, Tulane, and Vanderbilt. With the departure of most of the colleges, the SIAA became a de facto small college conference in 1923. In the 1920s and 1930s, the SIAA increased its membership with the addition of additional small universities. The conference eventually disbanded in 1942 with the onset of American involvement in World War II, original charter members are denoted in boldface. Invited charter members are denoted with an asterisk, in the era in which the SIAA operated, teams tended to join in December, therefore, the first year of conference play in a given sport was often the following calendar year. Conference affiliations reflect those for the 2016–17 school year
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Harry Baum
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Harry W. Baum was an American college football coach and construction engineer. He served as the coach at Tulane University in 1896. Baum attended the University of Illinois, where he played on the team as a halfback. Baum attended the University of Illinois, where he played on the team as a halfback. He graduated from Illinois in 1895 with a degree in civil engineering, after college, he undertook pneumatic foundation work in St. Louis, Missouri. He served as the first paid Tulane football coach in 1896 and his salary was funded through gate receipts and monthly dues from members of the Tulane Athletic Association. He coached the Olive and Blue to a 3–2 record, in the game against Louisiana State, with Tulane leading, 2–0, Baum attempted to substitute a player not enrolled at the university. LSUs coach protested the substitution, and Tulane forfeited the game, after the season in its December meeting, the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association sanctioned the school by disallowing it to field an intercollegiate team the following year. Without a football team for the 1897 season, Baum left New Orleans and he returned to his alma mater to serve as an assistant coach under George Huff. In 1920, Baum entered the contracting business. He worked on the construction of the capitol buildings in Salt Lake City, Oklahoma City, and Boise, Idaho. Baum died on March 3,1950, harry Baum at the College Football Data Warehouse
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1896 LSU Tigers football team
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The 1896 LSU Tigers football team represented the LSU Tigers of Louisiana State University during the 1896 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. This was LSUs first season playing as a member of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association, the Tigers, led by coach Allen Jeardeau, went undefeated and were the SIAA co-champions. It was LSUs second undefeated season in football, the 1896 team was also the first LSU team to use the nickname Tigers. Allen Jeardeau was hired as head coach, † -Team Captain Roster from Fanbase. com and LSU, The Louisiana Tigers LSU easily defeated Centenary 46–0. Robertson went around end for the first touchdown. The starting lineup was Westbrook, Nicholson, Huyck, Atkinson, Scott, Robertson, Slaughter, Gourrier, J. Daspit, A. Daspit, the Tulane game of this year was forfeited during the game due to Tulane having fielded an ineligible player. At the time that the game was declared forfeit, Tulane was leading with a score of 2 to nothing, about 10 minutes into the second half, LSU was moving the ball toward the goal line when a Tulane player named Depleche was injured. The injured player was replaced by George H. Brooke, LSU ran another play and gained 5 yards before realizing the identity of this substitute Tulane player. LSUs team captain, Edwin A. Scott protested to the games referee, Scott cited the rules of the SIAA and the mutual pre-game agreement between the schools as reasons that Brooke should be declared ineligible to play. Tulanes team captain, Louis J. Genella, refused to take Brooke out of the game, after a lengthy debate, the referee ruled that Brooke could not play, and that Tulane forfeited the game by refusing to play without him. During the debate, Tulane argued that Brooke, who was previously a two time All-American at Pennsylvania, planned to enroll as a student at Tulane. Brooke refused to sign an affidavit of his intention to enroll at Tulane, due to the forfeiture, the official score was set at LSU6, Tulane 0. Dr. William Dudley, of the SIAA, later ruled that the referee was right to declare the game forfeited. Dudley ruled that players should be enrolled for two weeks before being allowed to play in a game. The game was close and hard for the first ten minutes, LSU scored again in the second half after continuous gains. Then Mississippi scored late, by the hardest sort of playing, the extra point attempt hit the crossbar. The starting lineup was A. Daspit, Arrighi, Huyck, Chavanne, Schneider, Scott, Slaughter, J. Daspit, Schoenberger, Gourrier, the Cadets defeated the Texas team 14–0. Sam Gourrier made the first touchdown around Texas left end, the Times Picayune reported The cadets are wild tonight over the victory
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1896 Georgia Bulldogs football team
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The 1896 Georgia Bulldogs football team represented the Georgia Bulldogs of the University of Georgia during the 1896 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. As a member of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association, the team provided Georgia with its first undefeated season, compiling a 4–0 record, the Bulldogs were co-champions of the SIAA with LSU, who joined the conference in 1896. This was the Georgia Bulldogs second and final season under the guidance of head coach Pop Warner who had continued as coach for a season at a salary of $40 per week for ten weeks. It was rare in those days that a coach lasted more than one season, several veterans returned from last season. Nalley and Richard Von Albade Gammon were both in the backfield, with Gammon at quarterback, and Nalley as captain, the season opened in Spartanburg with a 26–0 defeat of Wofford. In the first big game of the season, Georgia beat North Carolina 24–16 in a close game. For the first time in Southern football history the football supremacy of Virginia, the first touchdown came when George Whitfield Price went around right tackle for 8 yards. There were yells of Price, Price everywhere, Carolinas Heyward then got his own touchdown through right tackle. Later, Carolinas Belden made a punt, which went over Lovejoys head. Wright fell on it for a touchdown, giving Carolina the lead, then Blanch broke through and tied the score with a 30-yard run between right end and tackle. He then later went around end to put the Bulldogs up by a score as the first half ended. A blocked kick from Blanch and Key led to Georgias final touchdown, after Green ran for 40 yards on a fake buck, Heyward scored the last touchdown for Carolina from 5 yards out. The starting lineup was Wight, Price, Blanch, Atkinson (center, Middlebrooke, Kent, Watson, Gammon, Nalley, Cothrell, the Bulldogs defeated the Sewanee Tigers 26–0. In the rivalry game with John Heismans Auburn to decide the conference, Georgias quarterback the following season Reynolds Tichenor was at the same spot for the Tigers. Lovejoy scored Georgias first touchdown, without Nalley using signals, the next touchdown came on another trick, with an onside kick to get the ball. Walter Cothran followed this with an 80-yard touchdown run, Tichenor then had a long punt return for Auburn. Tichenor once said he had been sprawled on the ground, when a big Georgia lineman jumped at him, knees first, the fellow was very polite, Tichenor said. We both got up and he apologized very profusely for having missed me, Tichenor later transferred to Georgia to attend law school
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1896 Auburn Tigers football team
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The 1896 Auburn Tigers football team represented Auburn University in the 1896 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. It was the Tigers fifth season, the team was led by head coach John Heisman, in his second year, and finished with a record of three wins and one loss. The teams captain was Reynolds Tichenor, the Georgia–Auburn game was a 12 to 6 victory by Georgia to finish its first undefeated season under Pop Warner. The game featured Tichenors brilliant punt returns
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1896 Alabama Crimson White football team
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The 1896 Alabama Crimson White football team represented the University of Alabama in the 1896 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. The team was led by head coach Otto Wagonhurst, in his first season, in what was the fifth season of Alabama football, the team finished with a record of two wins and one loss. In spring 1895, the University Board of Trustees passed a rule that prohibited teams from competing off-campus for athletic events. As such, all scheduled for the 1896 season were played on campus at The Quad. In their first game, Alabama shutout the Birmingham Athletic Club before they lost their game of the season against Sewanee. Alabama scored their first touchdown early in the first half when a B. A. C, fumble was recovered and returned 50-yards for a touchdown. They scored four touchdowns and made five successful PATs in their 30–0 shutout victory. In what was the final all-time contest against the Athletics, the victory improved Alabamas all-time record against the Birmingham Athletic Club to 2–3, against Sewanee, Alabama lost their first game of the season 10–6. The loss brought Alabamas all-time record against Sewanee to 1–2, in their final game of the season, Alabama defeated the Mississippi A&M Aggies 20–0 at Tuscaloosa in the first all-time meeting between the long-time rivals. Alabama took a 12–0 halftime lead after Putnam and Frank White scored touchdowns with A. B. In the second half Samuel Slone scored on a 45-yard touchdown run, head coach, Otto Wagonhurst Manager, Champ Pickens
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Kentucky Wildcats football
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The Kentucky Wildcats football program represents the University of Kentucky in the sport of American football. The Wildcats compete in the Football Bowl Subdivision of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, until about 1913, the modern University of Kentucky was referred to as Kentucky State College and nearby Transylvania University was known as Kentucky University. In 1880, Kentucky University and Centre College played the first intercollegiate game in Kentucky. Kentucky State first fielded a team in 1881, playing three games against rival Kentucky University. The team was revived in 1891, both the inaugural 1881 squad and the revived 1891 squad have unknown coaches according to university records in winning two games and losing three. The 1891 teams colors were blue and light yellow, decided before the Centre–Kentucky game on December 19, a student asked What color blue. And varsity letterman Richard C. Stoll pulled off his necktie and this is still held as the origin of Kentuckys shade of blue. The next year light yellow was dropped and changed to white, the 1892 team was coached by A. M. Miller, and went 2–4–1. The greatest UK team of this era was the 1898 squad, to this day, the Immortals remain the only undefeated, untied, and unscored upon team in UK football history. The Immortals were coached by W. R. Bass and ended the year a perfect 7–0–0, head coach Jack Wright led the team to a 7–1 record in 1903, losing only to rival and southern champion Kentucky University. Fred Schacht posted a 15–4–1 record in two seasons but died unexpectedly after his second season, J. White Guyn also had success leading the Wildcats, posting a 17–7–1 record in his three years. Edwin Sweetland went 16–3 in three seasons but resigned due to poor health, Sweetland also served as Kentuckys first athletics director. The 1909 team upset the Illinois Fighting Illini, upon their welcome home, Philip Carbusier said that they had fought like wildcats, a nickname that stuck. John J. Tigert coached Kentucky for two seasons with each season having one loss, the 1916 team fought the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association co-champion Tennessee Volunteers to a scoreless tie. The years only a loss,45 to 0 to the Irby Curry-led Vanderbilt Commodores, was the dedication of Stoll Field, quarterbacks Curry and Kentuckys Doc Rodes were both selected All-Southern at years end. Vanderbilt coach Dan McGugin stated If you would give me Doc Rodes, Coach Harry Gamage had a 32–25–5 record during his seven seasons from 1927 to 1933. A. D. Kirwan, who would go on to be the president of the university, coached the Wildcats from 1938 to 1944, longtime athletics director Bernie Shively also served as Kentuckys head football coach for the 1945 season. Coach Paul Bear Bryant was Kentuckys head football coach for eight seasons, Bear Bryant came to Kentucky from Maryland
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Cumberland Bulldogs football
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The Cumberland Phoenix football team represents Cumberland University in National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics, primarily competing in the Mid-South Conference. The Phoenix formerly competed in the TranSouth Athletic Conference and Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association, Cumberland football began on October 26,1894 with a 6-6 tie with Peabody and finished that first year with a 2-1-1 season record. The early days of Cumberland football were very promising, the 1916 game against Georgia Tech is famous as the most lopsided-scoring game in the history of college football, Georgia Tech defeated Cumberland by a score of 222–0. For the 2008 season, CUs football earned a share of the Mid-South Conference West Division, in 2016, the team changed its name from Bulldogs to the Phoenix
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Tulane University
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Tulane University is a private, nonsectarian research university in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. It is generally considered the top university and the most selective institution of education in the state of Louisiana. From a nationwide perspective, U. S. News & World Report categorizes Tulane as most selective, the school is known to attract a geographically diverse student body, with 85% of undergraduate students coming from over 300 miles away. The school was founded as a medical college in 1834. The institution was privatized under the endowments of Paul Tulane and Josephine Louise Newcomb in 1884, Tulane is the 9th oldest private university in the Association of American Universities, which consists of major research universities in the United States and Canada. The Tulane University Law School and Tulane University Medical School are considered the 12th oldest and 15th oldest law and medical schools, respectively, members of Congress, heads of Federal agencies, two Surgeon Generals of the United States, U. S. At least two Nobel laureates have been affiliated with the University, the university was founded as the Medical College of Louisiana in 1834 partly as a response to the fears of smallpox, yellow fever, and cholera in the United States. The university became only the medical school in the South. In 1847, the legislature established the school as the University of Louisiana, a public university. Subsequently, in 1851, the university established its first academic department, the first president chosen for the new university was Francis Lister Hawks, an Episcopalian priest and prominent citizen of New Orleans at the time. The university was closed from 1861 to 1865 during the American Civil War, after reopening, it went through a period of financial challenges because of an extended agricultural depression in the South which affected the nations economy. Paul Tulane, owner of a dry goods and clothing business. This donation led to the establishment of a Tulane Educational Fund and this act created the Tulane University of Louisiana. The university was privatized, and is one of only a few American universities to be converted from a public institution to a private one. In 1884, William Preston Johnston became the first president of Tulane and he had succeeded Robert E. Lee as president of Washington and Lee University after Lees death. He had moved to Louisiana and become president of Louisiana State University, in 1885, the university established its graduate division, later becoming the Graduate School. One year later, gifts from Josephine Louise Newcomb totaling over $3.6 million, Newcomb was the first coordinate college for women in the United States and became a model for such institutions as Pembroke College and Barnard College. In 1894 the College of Technology formed, which would become the School of Engineering
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New Orleans
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New Orleans is a major United States port and the largest city and metropolitan area in the state of Louisiana. The population of the city was 343,829 as of the 2010 U. S. Census, the New Orleans metropolitan area had a population of 1,167,764 in 2010 and was the 46th largest in the United States. The New Orleans–Metairie–Bogalusa Combined Statistical Area, a trading area, had a 2010 population of 1,452,502. The city is named after the Duke of Orleans, who reigned as Regent for Louis XV from 1715 to 1723, as it was established by French colonists and it is well known for its distinct French and Spanish Creole architecture, as well as its cross-cultural and multilingual heritage. New Orleans is also famous for its cuisine, music, and its celebrations and festivals, most notably Mardi Gras. The city is referred to as the most unique in the United States. New Orleans is located in southeastern Louisiana, straddling the Mississippi River, the city and Orleans Parish are coterminous. The city and parish are bounded by the parishes of St. Tammany to the north, St. Bernard to the east, Plaquemines to the south, and Jefferson to the south and west. Lake Pontchartrain, part of which is included in the city limits, lies to the north, before Hurricane Katrina, Orleans Parish was the most populous parish in Louisiana. As of 2015, it ranks third in population, trailing neighboring Jefferson Parish, La Nouvelle-Orléans was founded May 7,1718, by the French Mississippi Company, under the direction of Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, on land inhabited by the Chitimacha. It was named for Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, who was Regent of the Kingdom of France at the time and his title came from the French city of Orléans. The French colony was ceded to the Spanish Empire in the Treaty of Paris, during the American Revolutionary War, New Orleans was an important port for smuggling aid to the rebels, transporting military equipment and supplies up the Mississippi River. Bernardo de Gálvez y Madrid, Count of Gálvez successfully launched a campaign against the British from the city in 1779. New Orleans remained under Spanish control until 1803, when it reverted briefly to French oversight, nearly all of the surviving 18th-century architecture of the Vieux Carré dates from the Spanish period, the most notable exception being the Old Ursuline Convent. Napoleon sold Louisiana to the United States in the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, thereafter, the city grew rapidly with influxes of Americans, French, Creoles, and Africans. Later immigrants were Irish, Germans, and Italians, Major commodity crops of sugar and cotton were cultivated with slave labor on large plantations outside the city. The Haitian Revolution ended in 1804 and established the republic in the Western Hemisphere. It had occurred several years in what was then the French colony of Saint-Domingue
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Battle for the Rag
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The Battle for the Rag is an American college football rivalry game played by the LSU Tigers football team of Louisiana State University and the Tulane Green Wave football team of Tulane University. The game was played every year since its inception in 1893. The winner is awarded a satin trophy flag known as the Tiger Rag at LSU, the flag is divided diagonally, with the logos of each school placed on opposite sides and the Seal of Louisiana in the center. LSUs name for the flag comes from the popular tune Tiger Rag and it is believed that this flag was destroyed in a 1982 fire at Tulanes University Center. In 2001, LSU and Tulane worked together to create a reconstruction of the rag based upon archived photographs, in 2006 the rivalry was officially renewed, returning to yearly play for the first time since 1994. The teams began play that year and continued until 2009, when it was announced that LSU would pay Tulane $700,000 to void the final six years of the home-and-home series, LSU held that it would benefit if the remaining games were all played in Baton Rouge. Not wanting to give up its home games, Tulane agreed to end the series early, source, College Football Data Warehouse † LSU was declared the winner by forfeit in the 1896 and 1901 games. The score for each prior to a forfeit declaration was, 1896-Tulane 2, LSU0. Official scores subsequent to the forfeitures are listed in the table. # Rankings are from the AP Poll released prior to each game. List of NCAA college football rivalry games LSU-Tulane series history Gameday notes for the 2001 meeting between the two teams LSU and Tulane Agree to Football Series
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Vicksburg, Mississippi
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Vicksburg is the only city and county seat of Warren County, Mississippi, United States. It is located 234 miles northwest of New Orleans on the Mississippi and Yazoo rivers, and 40 miles due west of Jackson and it is located on the Mississippi River across from the state of Louisiana. The city has increased in population since 1900, when 14,834 people lived here, the population was 26,407 at the 2000 census. In 2010, it was designated as the city of a Micropolitan Statistical Area with a total population of 49,644. This MSA includes all of Warren County, the area which is now Vicksburg was long occupied by the Natchez Native Americans as part of their historical territory along the Mississippi. The Natchez spoke a language isolate not related to the Muskogean languages of the major tribes in the area. Before the Natchez, other cultures had occupied this strategic area for thousands of years. The first Europeans who settled the area were French colonists, who built Fort-Saint-Pierre in 1719 on the bluffs overlooking the Yazoo River at present-day Redwood. They conducted fur trading with the Natchez and others and started plantations, on 29 November 1729, the Natchez attacked the fort and plantations in and around the present-day city of Natchez. They killed several hundred settlers, including the Jesuit missionary Father Paul Du Poisson, as was the custom, they took a number of women and children as captives. The Natchez War was a disaster for French Louisiana, and the population of the Natchez District never recovered. But, aided by the Choctaw, traditional enemies of the Natchez, the French defeated and scattered the Natchez and their allies, the Choctaw Nation took over the area by right of conquest and inhabited it for several decades. Under pressure from the US government, in 1801 the Choctaw agreed to cede nearly 2,000,000 acres of land to the US under the terms of the Treaty of Fort Adams. The treaty was the first of a series that led to the removal in 1830 of most of the Choctaw to Indian Territory west of the Mississippi River. Some Choctaw remained in Mississippi, citing article XIV of the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek, they became citizens of the state and they struggled to maintain their culture against the pressure of the binary slave society, which classified people as only white or black. In 1790, the Spanish founded a military outpost on the site, when the Americans took possession in 1798 following the American Revolutionary War and a treaty with Spain, they changed the name to Walnut Hills. The small village was incorporated in 1825 as Vicksburg, named after Newitt Vick and they captured and hanged five gamblers who had shot and killed a local doctor. The historian Joshua D. Rothman calls this event the deadliest outbreak of violence in the slave states between the Southampton Insurrection and the Civil War
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George H. Brooke
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George Haydock Brooke was an American football player and coach. He played college football as a fullback at Swarthmore College from 1889 to 1892, Brooke served as the head football coach at Stanford University, Swarthmore, and Penn, compiling a career college football coaching record of 89–46–10. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a player in 1969, George Brooke was born on July 9,1874, in Brookeville, Maryland, to Walter H. Brooke at Caroline Leggett Brooke. He was married to Marie Louise Gregg Robb and he and his wife had no children. George Brooke attended Brookeville High School in Maryland before moving on to Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, at Swarthmore, he played baseball and football. He was the captain of the 1892 Swarthmore football team and he received a Bachelor of Science degree from Swarthmore in 1893. He next enrolled at the University of Pennsylvania where he earned a Bachelor of Philosophy degree in 1895, Brooke played seven years of college football at Swarthmore College and then at the University of Pennsylvania. He was selected as an All-American in 1894 and 1895 while playing for the University of Pennsylvania, Penn was undefeated and won the national championship of football in the two seasons that Brooke was named an All-American. All-American selector, Caspar Whitney called Brooke a very hard man to stop and he strikes the line with almost irresistible force. He was regarded as a fullback and a top notch punter. He is credited with coining the phrase coffin corner when describing his long punts deep into the end of the field. Brooke was barred from playing for Pennsylvania after the 1895 season because of an agreement between Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania that limited players to four seasons. After finishing a degree from Pennsylvania, Brooke was the subject of an allegation of being an ineligible player in an October 24,1896 game in New Orleans. In the game, Brooke played only one down for Tulane University before LSU protested to the games referee, Tulane claimed that Brooke planned on enrolling there as a graduate student. During the debate between team captains, Brooke refused to sign an affidavit stating his intention to enroll at Tulane, the referee ruled him ineligible to play. The Tulane football team refused to continue playing the game without Brooke, following his playing career, Brooke was the head football coach at Stanford University in 1897, compiling a record of 4–1. In the spring of 1898 he took a break from coaching and he served in Puerto Rico during the conflict. Brooke was discharged from the Army later in 1898 with the war ending, from 1900 to 1912 he coached Swarthmore Colleges football team, earning an overall record of 72–32–6
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William Lofland Dudley
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William Lofland Dudley was an American chemistry professor at both the University of Cincinnati and Vanderbilt University. At Vanderbilt, he was appointed dean of its medical department and he was also once vice-president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and was notably director of affairs on the Tennessee Centennial Exposition executive committee. Early in Dudleys career, he and John Holland developed a method for refining iridium that paved the way for applications of the metal. He was instrumental in the establishment of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association, Dudley was a part of the National Collegiate Athletic Association executive and football rules committees. Known as the father of Vanderbilt football and the father of Southern football, Dudley was born on April 16,1859 in Covington, Kentucky, to George Reed Dudley and Emma Lofland. His father was an owner and manufacturer. Dudleys family was of English descent, and he was a descendant of colonial Massachusetts governor Thomas Dudley. He was educated in the Covington public schools, graduating from Covington High School in 1876 and that autumn, Dudley entered the University of Cincinnati. By 1875 he had published an article in Scientific American. He was appointed professor of chemistry at Miami in 1880. From 1880 to 1886, Dudley was a professor of chemistry and toxicology at Miami Medical College in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1886, he was elected professor and chair of chemistry at Vanderbilt University, where he introduced courses in organic chemistry to the curriculum. President Grover Cleveland appointed Dudley a member of the Assay Commission of 1887 to examine the weight, Dudley was appointed Vanderbilts first dean of the medical department in 1895. In 1880, one John Holland of Cincinnati discovered the ability to melt and make castings of iridium by fusing the white-hot ore with phosphorus and he invoked the help of Dudley in getting rid of the phosphorus, who did so by repeated applications of lime at great heat. This was the first reported method of refining iridium, Dudley then found new applications for iridium, and formed the American Iridium Company with Holland. Dudley filed a patent on his method for electroplating in 1887. Dudley was credited with discovering that a component of tobacco smoke is carbon monoxide. Dudley rejected the popularly held opinion that cigarette smoke was harmful due to the adulteration of the tobacco and his experiments showed the toxic agent to be carbon monoxide, resulting alike from cigarette, pipe, or cigar. Dudley was one of the first to publish the physiological effects of X-rays along with fellow Vanderbilt professor John Daniel, a child who had been shot in the head was brought to the Vanderbilt laboratory in 1896
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The Times-Picayune
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The Times-Picayune is an American newspaper published in New Orleans, Louisiana, since January 25,1837. However, under pressure from a new New Orleans edition of The Advocate. The paper and the NOLA. com website, form the NOLA Media Group division of Advance Publications, the paper was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 2006 for its coverage of Hurricane Katrina. Four of The Times-Picayune’s staff reporters also received Pulitzers for breaking-news reporting for their coverage of the storm, the paper funds the Edgar A. Poe Award for journalistic excellence, which is presented annually by the White House Correspondents Association. Established as The Picayune in 1837 by Francis Lumsden and George Wilkins Kendall, the initial price was one picayune. Between 1880 and 1890, the more than tripled its circulation. The paper became The Times-Picayune after merging in 1914 with its rival, in 1962, Samuel Irving Newhouse, Sr. bought the morning daily The Times-Picayune and the other remaining New Orleans daily, the afternoon States-Item. The papers were merged on June 2,1980 and were known as The Times-Picayune/States-Item until September 30,1986. In addition to the paper, specific community editions of the newspaper are also circulated and retain the Picayune name. The paper is a part of Advance Publications, which is owned by the Newhouse family, in the vernacular of its circulation area, the newspaper is often called the T-P. Hurricane Katrina became a significant part of the history of The Times-Picayune, not only during the storm and its immediate aftermath, with electrical outages leaving the presses out of commission after the storm, newspaper and web staffers produced a newspaper in electronic PDF format. On NOLA. com, meanwhile, tens of thousands of evacuated New Orleans and Gulf Coast residents began using the forums and blogs, posting pleas for help, offering aid. A small team of reporters and photographers volunteered to stay behind in New Orleans to report from the inside on the struggle, looting. They armed themselves for security and worked out of a private residence, the storm flooded huge swaths of the city, as well as Slidell on the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain, in a process that appeared to be spreading even as night fell. Being a part of the plot is both riveting and deeply unsettling and we dont yet know the end of this story. Its the story of our lives, and we must both live and chronicle it, on May 24,2012, the papers owner, Advance Publications, announced that the print edition of the Times-Picayune would be published three days a week beginning that fall. News of the change was first revealed the night before in a blog post by New York Times media writer David Carr, a new company, NOLA Media Group, was created to oversee both the paper and its website, NOLA. com. Along with the change in its schedule, Advance also announced that significant cuts would be coming to the newsroom
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Tulane Stadium
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Tulane Stadium was an outdoor football stadium located in New Orleans, that stood from 1926 to 1980. Officially known as the Third Tulane Stadium, it replaced the Second Tulane Stadium where the Telephone Exchange Building is now located, the stadium hosted three of the first nine Super Bowls in 1970,1972, and 1975. The stadium was opened in 1926 with a capacity of roughly 35,000 on the sidelines of the field. Tulane Stadium was built on Tulane Universitys campus, since the institution of the annual Sugar Bowl game, Tulane Stadium itself was often informally referred to as the Sugar Bowl. It was also billed as The Queen of Southern Stadiums and it was in a portion of Tulane Universitys main campus in Uptown New Orleans fronting Willow Street, with parking stretching to Claiborne Avenue. The original 1926 structure was mostly of brick and concrete, the first Sugar Bowl game was played at the stadium on January 1,1935, matching host Tulane against the Temple Owls from Philadelphia. The term Sugar Bowl had been coined by Fred Digby, sports editor of the New Orleans Item, the stadium was eventually expanded to seat up to 80,985 fans. In its final configuration, the stadium included four concrete and steel sections, with a steel upper deck wrapping around the sides. The press box was located on the side of the field. It was the last installment of the LSU-Tulane rivalry played on the Tulane campus, almost exactly one year later, Tulane Stadium hosted its final Green Wave game, a 26–10 loss to Ole Miss on a miserably cold afternoon on November 30,1974. Tulane would not play another game until Yulman Stadium opened in 2014. One month after the Ole Miss–Tulane game, Nebraska won the college game in the stadium. In addition to hosting Tulane University football games and the Sugar Bowl, the Saints won their last game in the stadium, 14-0 over the St. Louis Cardinals on December 8,1974. Tulane Stadium was the site of three early Super Bowls, IV, VI, and IX, Super Bowl IX was the final professional league game ever played at the stadium. The stadium hosted the two coldest outdoor Super Bowls, Super Bowl VI on January 16,1972, at 39° F, Super Bowl IX was supposed to be played in the Superdome, but it wasnt finished yet. Aside from the bowls, the most memorable moment at the stadium might have been the Saints victory over the Detroit Lions on November 8,1970. In the NFL prior to the 1974 season, the posts were on the goal line instead of the end line. With seconds remaining, the Saints attempted a kick with the holder spotting at the Saints own 37-yard line
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Mercedes-Benz Superdome
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The Mercedes-Benz Superdome, often referred to simply as the Superdome, is a domed sports and exhibition venue located in the Central Business District of New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. It primarily serves as the venue for the New Orleans Saints of the National Football League. Plans were drawn up in 1967 by the New Orleans modernist architectural firm of Curtis and Davis and the building opened as the Louisiana Superdome in 1975. Its steel frame covers a 13-acre expanse and the 273-foot dome is made of a lamellar multi-ringed frame and has a diameter of 680 feet and it is adjacent to the Smoothie King Center. The Superdome gained international attention of a different type in 2005 when it housed thousands of people seeking shelter from Hurricane Katrina, the building suffered extensive damage as a result of the storm, and was closed for many months afterward. It was eventually decided the building would be refurbished and reopened in time for the Saints 2006 home opener on September 25. On October 3,2011, it was announced that German automaker Mercedes-Benz purchased naming rights to the stadium, the new name took effect on October 23,2011. Atlantas Mercedes-Benz Stadium, set to open in 2017, will become the fifth stadium to bear the name of the German automaker, the Superdome is located on 70 acres of land, including the former Girod Street Cemetery. The dome has a space of 125,000,000 cubic feet, a height of 253 feet, a dome diameter of 680 feet. The Superdome has a listed seating capacity of 76,468 or 73,208. However, published figures from events such as the Sugar Bowl football game have exceeded 79,000. The basketball capacity does not reflect the NCAAs new policy on arranging the basketball court on the 50-yard line on the football field, in 2011,3,500 seats were added, increasing the Superdomes capacity to 76,468. The Superdomes capacity was 75,167 for WWE WrestleMania XXX, the actual capacity is 73,208 people. The team regularly draws capacity crowds, the NFL has hosted seven Super Bowls at the Superdome, most recently Super Bowl XLVII in 2013. The 1976 Pro Bowl was held at the Superdome on Monday and it was the NFLs 26th annual all-star game. Tulane University played their games at the stadium from 1975 to 2013 before moving to on-campus Yulman Stadium. The BCS National Championship Game was played at the Superdome four times, the College Football Playoff semifinal game is played every three years in the stadium. Two other bowl games are played there annually, the Sugar Bowl
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Yulman Stadium
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Yulman Stadium is the on-campus venue for football at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. It currently has a capacity of 30,000 spectators, with 4,500 premium seats in two fan clubs - the Westfeldt Terrace and the Jill H. and Avram A. Glazer Family Club. The stadiums first game and grand opening was the 2014 seasons home opener against its former SEC foe Georgia Tech on September 6,2014, the Green Wave are 4-8 all-time in games played in Yulman. The stadium features two elevated club decks on the home side. The Jill H. and Avram A. Glazer Family Club is the premier club-level seating in the stadium, with 1,500 chair back seats, two club rooms, two bars, expanded concessions, and a large meeting space. The remainder of Yulmans premium seating is composed of 3,000 chair back seats in the Westfeldt Terrace, located directly above the Glazer Club, Westfeldt features a panoramic view of the New Orleans skyline and premium concessions, including traditional New Orleans dishes. A large-scale meeting space is located on the level for use year-round. The entry space in front of the stadium, known as the Athletes Plaza, is used for pre- and post-game activities. The fields end zones feature a green and white checkerboard pattern such as that in the original Tulane Stadium, as well as a green pattern made to look similar to real. Yulman holds a 94-by-24-foot LED video board, as well as two ribbon displays, all made by Daktronics, barry Kern from Mardi Gras World created a float for use during pre-game parades, as well as a mural inside the Glazer Club. Yulman was designed and constructed with the ability to expand in the future should demand dictate it, specifically with 5, 000—10,000 seats in the east sideline and north end zone. Prior to the 2016 season, Athletic Director Troy Dannen announced the addition of a 2, located above the student section and produced by Mardi Gras World, the sculpture doubles as a water feature, though details of that aspect have yet to be announced. University representatives initially named the stadium Tulane Community Stadium but revealed its official name in late 2012. He later committed another $10 million to the project as a challenge to other donors to fund the project through private donations by the end of the first football season in the stadium. Construction Photos, February 2014 In its first game in Yulman Stadium, attendance at games through September 24,2016 List of NCAA Division I FBS football stadiums Media related to Yulman Stadium at Wikimedia Commons Official website
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Tulane Green Wave
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The Tulane Green Wave are the athletic teams representing Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. The nickname was adopted during the 1920 season, after a song titled The Rolling Green Wave was published in the Tulane Hullabaloo in 1920, from 1893 to 1919 the athletic teams of Tulane were officially known as The Olive and Blue, for the official school colors. Tulane competes in NCAA Division I as a member of the American Athletic Conference, the university was a charter member of the Southeastern Conference, in which it competed until 1966. Tulane, along with other academically-oriented, private schools had considered forming the Southern Ivy League in the 1950s and it joined the newly formed Conference USA in 1995. In 2012 the university announced it would move to the Big East Conference in all sports in July 2014, there are 17 Green Wave intercollegiate programs. Tulane sponsors teams in seven mens and ten womens NCAA sanctioned sports, * = Beach volleyball is a fully sanctioned NCAA sport which had its first national championship in the spring of 2016. Tulane is a member of the Coastal Collegiate Sports Association, the Tulane football team, established in 1893, compete in the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision. Green Wave football teams have won 9 conference championships, including 3 in the SEC and 1 in C-USA and they are coached by Willie Fritz and play home games in Yulman Stadium. The Tulane baseball team, also established in 1893, is managed by head coach Travis Jewett, the program has appeared in the NCAA Tournament 21 times and in the College World Series twice. They play home games on campus at Turchin Stadium, both the mens and womens basketball teams play home games in Devlin Fieldhouse, named after a donation that enabled extensive renovations in 2012–13. It is the 9th-oldest active basketball venue in the nation, the mens basketball team, established in 1905, is coached by Mike Dunleavy Sr. who was hired following the 2015-16 season. The womens team has coached since 1995 by Lisa Stockton. The universitys Renewal Plan called for the suspension of some of its sports, when the news leaked, the outrage by fans, alumni, and boosters forced the Board of Trustees to pivot and claim it actually intended to undertake a comprehensive review of athletics. Scott Cowen began a dialog with other university presidents calling for a change to the system that rewards established powers at the expense of less successful programs. On February 29,2004, the BCS met in Miami, Florida, as a member of the BCS Presidential Oversight Committee, Cowen was active in decision-making regarding the future of college football. It is a component of the Tulane Fund, Tulane Universitys annual giving program, in 2007 the fund set a record for membership with 2,210 donors contributing. In 2011 it spearheaded the Home Field Advantage campaign to fund the $73 million construction of Yulman Stadium on the Uptown campus through private donations. Tulane officials commissioned John Chase in 1945 to illustrate the covers of its football game programs and he came up with Greenie, a mischievous boy who would be considered an unofficial mascot by many fans
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Tulane University Marching Band
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The Tulane University Marching Band is the marching band of Tulane University. It performs at every Tulane Green Wave football home game in Yulman Stadium, bowl games, and some away games. It is also marches in New Orleans Mardi Gras parades each year, having appeared in Le Krewe dEtat, the Krewe of Thoth, the Krewe of Bacchus, the band was formed in 1920 as a military band under the direction of Dr. Frederick Hard. Maynard J. Klein became director in 1936, john J. Morrissey became the director for 30 years beginning in 1938. The color guard was first introduced in 1938, the band was dissolved in the mid-1970s, shortly after the closure of Tulane Stadium. The band began its revival in 2004 with the help of SoundWave, in response to student and alumni interest, the university administration hired Barry Spanier in 2004. The current uniform design was adopted, as a result of Hurricane Katrina, the bands planned debut in the fall of 2005 was postponed. The band formally debuted in the Krewe of Alla Mardi Gras parade in 2006, the TUMB Mardi Gras doubloon was introduced in 2007. The drumline also uses Yamaha battery and front ensemble equipment and proudly use Vic Firth Sticks, Zildjian Cymbals, the guard debuted in 2006 with retro uniforms based on archived designs and pictures. In 2009, it introduced a new design more in line with modern guard units, accordingly moving toward incorporation of ballet, jazz, modern, and contemporary modern dance. It performs predominately with flags, rifles, and sabres in pregame and halftime shows, as well as Mardi Gras parades, unlike many university guards, the Tulane guard accepts both male and female members. The dance team became a part of the TUMB in 2009. Shockwave is coached by Ashley Iserman, members of the TUMB receive credit both semesters - in the fall for football season and in the spring for Mardi Gras parades. Incoming freshmen who audition have the opportunity to be awarded scholarships that renew as long as they are members in good standing, upperclassmen are eligible for an award each semester after they have received four credits in any TUMB-related course. After its field time in Yulman, the TUMB warms up behind Newcomb Hall, the band then begins the gameday parade from Newcomb Hall, through the two main tailgating quads on Tulanes Uptown campus, and then down McAlister Drive to the stadium. The parade is led by Tulanes cheerleaders throwing beads from a float created by the Kerns of Mardi Gras World, following a video introduction on Yulmans video board, the TUMB runs onto the field to a drum cadence. The band then starts its performance with a based on Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans then plays When the Saints Go Marching In before beginning Roll On. The TUMB, Shockwave, and cheer squad then lead fans in The Hullabaloo before the plays the fights song while forming a traditional serif T
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