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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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