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Michigan Wolverines football
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The Michigan Wolverines football program represents the University of Michigan in college football at the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision level. Michigan has the most all-time wins and the highest winning percentage in college football history, Michigan began competing in intercollegiate football in 1879. The Wolverines joined the Big Ten Conference at its inception in 1896, Michigan has won or shared 42 league titles, and, since the inception of the AP Poll in 1936, has finished in the top 10 a total of 37 times. The Wolverines claim 11 national championships, most recently that of the 1997 squad voted atop the final AP Poll. From 1900 to 1989, Michigan was led by a series of nine head coaches, Fielding H. Fritz Crisler brought his winged helmet from Princeton University in 1938 and led the 1947 Wolverines to a national title and Michigans second Rose Bowl win. Bo Schembechler coached the team for 21 seasons in which he won 13 Big Ten titles and 194 games, a program record. Following Schembechlers retirement, the program was coached by two of his assistants, Gary Moeller and then Lloyd Carr, who maintained the programs overall success over the next 18 years. However, the programs fortunes declined under the two coaches, Rich Rodriguez and Brady Hoke, who were both fired after relatively short tenures. Following Hokes dismissal, Michigan hired Jim Harbaugh on December 30,2014, Harbaugh is a former quarterback of the team, having played for Michigan between 1982 and 1986 under Schembechler. The Michigan Wolverines have featured 78 players that have garnered consensus selection to the College Football All-America Team, Three Wolverines have won the Heisman Trophy, Tom Harmon in 1940, Desmond Howard in 1991, and Charles Woodson in 1997. Gerald Ford, who would become the 38th President of the United States. On May 30,1879, Michigan played its first intercollegiate game against Racine College at White Stocking Park in Chicago. The Chicago Tribune called it the first rugby-football game to be played west of the Alleghenies, midway through the first inning, Irving Kane Pond scored the first touchdown for Michigan. According to Will Perrys history of Michigan football, the crowd responded to Ponds plays with cheers of Pond Forever, in 1881, Michigan played against Harvard in Boston. The game that marked the birth of inter-sectional football, on their way to a game in Chicago in 1887, Michigan players stopped in South Bend, Indiana and introduced football to students at the University of Notre Dame. A November 23 contest marked the inception of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish football program, in 1894, Michigan defeated Cornell, which was the first time in collegiate football history that a western school defeated an established power from the east. By 1898 Amos Alonzo Stagg was fast at work at turning the University of Chicago football program into a powerhouse. Before the final game of the 1898 season, Chicago was 9–1–1 and Michigan was 9–0, Michigan won, 12–11, capturing the programs first conference championship in a game that inspired The Victors, which later became the schools fight song
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Big Ten Conference
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The Big Ten Conference, formerly Western Conference and Big Nine Conference, is the oldest Division I collegiate athletic conference in the United States. The conference includes the public university in each of 11 states stretching from New Jersey to Nebraska. The Big Ten Conference was established in 1895 when Purdue University president James H, in 1905, the conference was officially incorporated as the Intercollegiate Conference Athletic Association. Big Ten member institutions are predominantly major flagship research universities with large financial endowments, large student enrollment is also a hallmark of Big Ten universities, as 12 of the 14 members feature enrollments of 30,000 or more students. Northwestern University, one of just two members with a total enrollment of fewer than 30,000 students, is the lone private university among Big Ten membership. Collectively, Big Ten universities educate more than 520,000 total students and have 5.7 million living alumni, Big Ten universities engage in $9.3 billion in funded research each year. Big Ten universities are members of the Big Ten Academic Alliance. In 2014–2015, members generated more than $10 billion in research expenditures, Johns Hopkins University was invited in 2012 to join the Big Ten as an associate member participating in mens lacrosse only. In 2015, it was accepted as an associate member in womens lacrosse. Notre Dame is scheduled to join the Big Ten in 2017 as a member in mens ice hockey. Notes Notes Notes The University of Chicago was a co-founder of the conference, lake Forest College attended the original 1895 meeting that led to the formation of the conference, but did not join it. Full members Full members Sport Affiliate Other Conference Other Conference The Big Ten Conference sponsors championship competition in 14 mens and 14 womens NCAA sanctioned sports, Notes, * Notre Dame will join the Big Ten in the 2017–18 school year as an affiliate member in mens ice hockey. It continues to field its other sports in the ACC except in football where it will continue to compete as an independent, ° Johns Hopkins joined the Big Ten in 2014 as an affiliate member in mens lacrosse, with womens lacrosse to follow in 2016. Ohio State and Penn State, like most NCAA fencing schools, have coed teams,2, Mens rowing, whether heavyweight or lightweight, is not governed by the NCAA, but instead by the Intercollegiate Rowing Association. Rutgers Mens Rowing was downgraded to Club status in 2008,3, Unlike rifle, pistol is not an NCAA-governed sport. 4, Rifle is technically a mens sport, but mens, womens, Ohio State fields a coed team. The eligibility of student-athletes was one of the topics of discussion. The Intercollegiate Conference of Faculty Representatives was founded at a meeting on February 8,1896
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Gustave Ferbert
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Gustave Herman Ferbert, nicknamed Dutch, was first a player and then the head coach for the University of Michigan American football team. In 1898, his Michigan team went 10–0 and won the first Western Conference championship in the schools history and he left the University of Michigan in 1900 and spent nine years prospecting for gold in Alaska, finally striking it rich off claims he discovered in 1908 and 1909. Ferbert was born in 1873 to John C, Ferbert and Caroline Stlbbinger at Cleveland, Ohio. Ferbert played quarterback and right halfback for the University of Michigan from 1893 to 1896, during the four years Ferbert played, the Michigan team compiled an overall record of 33–4–1. In his senior year,1896, the team went 9–1, in a 20–0 victory over Minnesota, Ferbert scored two touchdowns. However, the team lost the game of the season to the University of Chicago, 7–6. The newspapers reported that Pingree was the thing for Michigan in the first half. Neither team resorted to trick plays, both relying on straight, hard football, toward the end of the second half, it got very dark, and the spectators were treated to a novelty in the shape of a football by electric light. In December 1896, Febert was unanimously selected as the captain of Michigans 1897 football team, Ferbert began his career as a football player in the Ann Arbor high school team. During a majority of the time he has played on the team he has acted as field captain, after his graduation, Ferbert was named as Michigans head football coach at age 22. In 1897, Ferberts team was 6–1–1 and finished third in the Western Conference, Ferberts team played to a scoreless tie against an Ohio Wesleyan team coached by Fielding H. Yost. Ferbert was Michigans head coach in the first match in The Michigan-Ohio State Game, on October 16,1897, the teams met at Regents Field in Ann Arbor, where Michigan won, 34–0. The Michigan Daily reported, Michigan had no trouble in defeating the Ohio State University representatives in Saturdays game, two halves of 20 and 15 minutes respectively were played and the score was 34-0. All the scoring took place in the first half, and the score would have much worse if Ferbert had wanted to run up a higher score. The 1898 Wolverines went 10–0 and won the Western Conference championship, the first great Michigan football team, the 1898 group outscored its opponents 205 to 26. In the first meeting with what would become Michigan State, Michigan prevailed 39–0, the team finished the season traveling to Chicago for a final game against Amos Alonzo Staggs University of Chicago team on November 24,1898. Led by All-American center, William Cunningham, Michigan came out on top, 12–11, a newspaper account described Michigans victory this way, The western football championship goes to Michigan. On a field that was perfect for fast football, and before a crowd of 12,000 the maroons of Chicago went down before the maize
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Regents Field
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Ferry Field was the home field for the University of Michigan football team from 1893 to 1905. It was located along South State Street in Ann Arbor, Michigan, the Board of Regents of the University of Michigan authorized $3,000 in 1890 for the purchase of land to build a new football field. The following May, they added $4,500 more for the purpose of fitting up the athletic field, the facility was simply named the Athletic Field upon completion. The first home game at the Athletic Field was a 6–0 victory over the Detroit Athletic Club on October 7,1893, the following year in 1894, the Athletic Association change the name of the field to Regents Field, which it would be known as until 1902. In 1902, Detroit businessman Dexter M. Ferry donated the land north of Regents Field to the university. In June 1902, Regents Field was renamed Ferry Field, when it opened, Ferry Field had a single wooden bleacher section that seated 400 people. The bleachers burned down in 1895 and were replaced the year with a new covered grandstand seating 800. Because of the demand for tickets, additional open bleachers seating about 6,000 were built adjoining the covered grandstand, the Athletic Association also had one thousand circus seats and materials for sloping platforms which will permit 8,000 more people to view a football game. Bleachers were later constructed along the side of the field. The largest crowd ever at Ferry Field was for the second to last game at the old stadium, by one account,17,000 fans watched the Wolverines defeat Wisconsin in the 1905 homecoming game. In the 1890s a three dollar membership in the Athletic Association gained students admission to all athletic events, by 1904 a general admission ticket cost $3.00. Michigan compiled an record of 87–2–3 at Ferry Field from 1893 to 1905. Between 1901 and 1904, Fielding H. Yosts Point-a-Minute teams went 44–0 at Ferry Field, in 1904, the Wolverines beat the undefeated University of Chicago team at Ferry Field. Portions of the game and several shots of the field were filmed by the Edison Manufacturing Company in one of the earliest successful attempts to film a football game. Ferry Field Michigan Wolverines football Edison Film of 1904 Football Game at Regents Field, Part 1 Edison Film of 1904 Football Game at Regents Field, Part 2
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1896 Michigan Wolverines football team
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The 1896 Michigan Wolverines football team represented the University of Michigan in the 1896 Western Conference football season. They played their games at Regents Field in Ann Arbor, Michigan and competed in the newly established Western Conference. The team, with William Ward as head coach, started the season with nine wins in which the Wolverines outscored their opponents by a combined score of 256 to 4. In the final game of the season, played on Thanksgiving Day at the Chicago Coliseum, the 1896 Michigan–Chicago game was the first college football game played indoors, and the last portion of the game was also played under electric lights. Henry M. Senter was the team captain, before the 1896 football season took the field, two developments occurred. First, Michigan joined the Western Inter-collegiate Athletic Conference, the 1896 season was the first for Michigan in conference play. Michigans three conference games in 1896 were against Purdue, Minnesota and Chicago, second, William McCauley, who had led Michigan to a 17–2–1 record in two seasons as coach, resigned as Michigans football coach. Princeton graduate, William Ward, was hired to replace McCauley, before leaving Ann Arbor in November 1896, McCauley assisted Ward in coaching the 1896 team. Michigan conducted tryouts for the 1896 football team at Sand Beach, the Michiganensian for 1897 reported on the group appearing for try-outs as follows, Never before had the Athletic field been so teeming with aspirants for foot-ball honors. Michigan opened its 1896 season with a game against Michigan State Normal. The Wolverines won, 18–0, scoring two touchdowns in the first half and a goal and a safety in the second half. The World of New York reported on the game as follows, only four members of last years Varsity eleven were in the game, although four of them were on the ground ready to play. Michigan played its game of the season at home against the team from Grand Rapids High School. The game was played in halves of 20 and 10 minutes, a newspaper account of the game described Michigans performance as follows, Michigan is now rapidly rounding into form and the team played a much stronger game today than a week ago. Several of the new men did some work, and the interference at all times was excellent. Hazen Pingree, at half, made several brilliant runs, and Hannan, at full, Bennett, Wombacher, Palmer and Farnham also showed up well in the line. Grand Rapids was never able to gain and the varsity scored as she pleased, Michigans lineup in the game was Palmer, Giovanni Count Villa, Fred Baker, John David Wombacher, John W. F. Bennett, Frederick Henninger, Thaddeus Farnham, Richards, Hazen Pingree, Thomas Jesse Drumheller and Steel, Michigans third game of the season was a mid-week match against the team from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in Chicago
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1898 Michigan Wolverines football team
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The 1898 Michigan Wolverines football team represented the University of Michigan in the 1898 Western Conference football season. The 1898 season included the first meeting in the Michigan - Michigan State football rivalry with Michigan winning the game by a score of 39–0. The 1898 Wolverines shut out a total of six opponents, including Notre Dame, the team concluded its season by playing Amos Alonzo Staggs University of Chicago team for the Western Conference championship. The Wolverines beat the favored Chicago Maroons by a 12–11 score in a game that inspired Louis Elbel to write Michigans fight song The Victors, several Michigan players received post-season honors. Halfback Charles Widman was the scoring leader with 12 touchdowns. Center William Cunningham was selected as a first-team All-American by Caspar Whitney in Harpers Weekly – the first Michigan football player to receive first-team All-American honors, Walter Camp selected two Michigan players, Cunningham and tackle Allen Steckle, as second-team All-Americans. By 1897, the finances of the Michigan Athletic Association under constantly changing student control were at a low ebb. In 1898, the Association asked Charles A. Baird, formerly a student manager of the football team, Baird was given complete control of all branches of athletics at Michigan in order to induce him to return to the school. One of Bairds first moves was to persuade trainer Keene Fitzpatrick to rejoin him at the school, Fitzpatrick had been the trainer of the 1894 and 1895 teams, but spent the 1896 and 1897 seasons as the trainer for Yales football team. Baird and Fitzpatrick have been credited with much of the success of the 1898 football team, Gustave Ferbert, who had played on the 1893–1895 teams managed by Baird, stayed on as coach in 1898. The 1897 team had finished with a record of 6–1–1, losing the Western Conference championship on the last day of the season to the University of Chicago. Several key linemen from the 1897 team returned in 1898, including ends John W. F. Bennett and Clayton Teetzel, tackle Allen Steckle, guard William Caley, Michigan opened its 1898 season with a 21–0 win over Michigan State Normal School. The game was considered to be essentially a game in which the coaches played 24 men at different times to assess their abilities. Michigans first touchdown came after three minutes of play on a drive started on Normals 40-yard line. Waldo Avery ran around end for 22 yards and subsequently ran across the line from the 10-yard line. Leo J. Keena kicked the goal from touchdown, George Whitcomb scored the second touchdown on a 15-yard run, and Neil Snow scored the third touchdown of the half after recovering a fumbled punt. The second half was reported to be a poor exhibition of football with substitutes playing at most positions. Michigans sole points of the half came on a fumble recovery by William Louis Day
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American football
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The offense must advance at least ten yards in four downs, or plays, or else they turn over the football to the opposing team, if they succeed, they are given a new set of four downs. Points are primarily scored by advancing the ball into the teams end zone for a touchdown or kicking the ball through the opponents goalposts for a field goal. The team with the most points at the end of a game wins, American football evolved in the United States, originating from the sports of association football and rugby football. The first game of American football was played on November 6,1869, during the latter half of the 1870s, colleges playing association football switched to the Rugby Union code, which allowed carrying the ball. American football as a whole is the most popular sport in the United States, Professional football and college football are the most popular forms of the game, with the other major levels being high school and youth football. As of 2012, nearly 1.1 million high school athletes and 70,000 college athletes play the sport in the United States annually, almost all of them men, in the United States, American football is referred to as football. The term football was established in the rulebook for the 1876 college football season. The terms gridiron or American football are favored in English-speaking countries where other codes of football are popular, such as the United Kingdom, Ireland, New Zealand, American football evolved from the sports of association football and rugby football. What is considered to be the first American football game was played on November 6,1869 between Rutgers and Princeton, two college teams, the game was played between two teams of 25 players each and used a round ball that could not be picked up or carried. It could, however, be kicked or batted with the feet, hands, head or sides, Rutgers won the game 6 goals to 4. Collegiate play continued for years in which matches were played using the rules of the host school. Representatives of Yale, Columbia, Princeton and Rutgers met on October 19,1873 to create a set of rules for all schools to adhere to. Teams were set at 20 players each, and fields of 400 by 250 feet were specified, Harvard abstained from the conference, as they favored a rugby-style game that allowed running with the ball. An 1875 Harvard-Yale game played under rugby-style rules was observed by two impressed Princeton athletes and these players introduced the sport to Princeton, a feat the Professional Football Researchers Association compared to selling refrigerators to Eskimos. Princeton, Harvard, Yale and Columbia then agreed to play using a form of rugby union rules with a modified scoring system. These schools formed the Intercollegiate Football Association, although Yale did not join until 1879, the introduction of the snap resulted in unexpected consequences. Prior to the snap, the strategy had been to punt if a scrum resulted in bad field position, however, a group of Princeton players realized that, as the snap was uncontested, they now could hold the ball indefinitely to prevent their opponent from scoring. In 1881, both teams in a game between Yale-Princeton used this strategy to maintain their undefeated records, each team held the ball, gaining no ground, for an entire half, resulting in a 0-0 tie
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University of Michigan
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The University of Michigan, frequently referred to simply as Michigan, is a public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States. Founded in 1817 in Detroit as the Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania,20 years before the Michigan Territory became a state, in 1821, the university was officially renamed the University of Michigan. It moved to Ann Arbor in 1837 onto 40 acres of what is now known as Central Campus, the University was a founding member of the Association of American Universities. Considered one of the foremost research universities in the United States, Michigans body of living alumni comprises more than 540,000 people, one of the largest alumni bases of any university in the world. Besides academic life, Michigans athletic teams compete in Division I of the NCAA and are known as the Wolverines. They are members of the Big Ten Conference, the University of Michigan was established in Detroit on August 26,1817 as the Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania, by the governor and judges of Michigan Territory. Judge Augustus B. Woodward specifically invited The Rev. John Monteith and Father Gabriel Richard, Monteith became its first President and held seven of the professorships, and Richard was Vice President and held the other six professorships. Concurrently, Ann Arbor had set aside 40 acres in the hopes of being selected as the state capital, but when Lansing was chosen as the state capital, the city offered the land for a university. What would become the university moved to Ann Arbor in 1837 thanks to Governor Stevens T. Mason, the original 40 acres was the basis of the present Central Campus. The first classes in Ann Arbor were held in 1841, with six freshmen, eleven students graduated in the first commencement in 1845. By 1866, enrollment increased to 1,205 students, many of whom were Civil War veterans, Women were first admitted in 1870. U-M also became the first American university to use the method of study. Among the early students in the School of Medicine was Jose Celso Barbosa, who in 1880 graduated as valedictorian and he returned to Puerto Rico to practice medicine and also served in high-ranking posts in the government. In 1920 the university reorganized the College of Engineering and formed a committee of 100 industrialists to guide academic research initiatives. The university became a choice for bright Jewish students from New York in the 1920s and 1930s. Because of its standards, U-M gained the nickname Harvard of the West. During World War II, U-Ms research supported military efforts, such as U. S. Navy projects in proximity fuzes, PT boats, and radar jamming. After the war, enrollment expanded rapidly and by 1950, it reached 21,000, as the Cold War and the Space Race took hold, U-M received numerous government grants for strategic research and helped to develop peacetime uses for nuclear energy
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Amos Alonzo Stagg
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Amos Alonzo Stagg was an American athlete and pioneering college coach in multiple sports, primarily American football. His Chicago Maroons teams of 1905 and 1913 have been recognized as national champions and he was also the head basketball coach for one season at the University of Chicago, and the head baseball coach there for 19 seasons. At the University of Chicago, Stagg also instituted an annual basketball tournament. Both drew the top school teams and athletes from around the United States. Stagg played football as an end at Yale University and was selected to the first College Football All-America Team in 1889. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as both a player and a coach in the class of 1951 and was the only individual honored in both roles until the 1990s. Influential in other sports, Stagg developed basketball as a five-player sport and this 5 man concept allowed his 10 man football team the ability to compete with each other and to stay in shape over the winter. Stagg was elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame in its first group of inductees in 1959, Stagg also forged a bond between sports and religious faith early on in his career that remained important to him for the rest of his life. Stagg was born in a poor Irish neighborhood of West Orange, New Jersey, Stagg attended Yale College, where he was a divinity student, and a member of the Psi Upsilon fraternity and Skull and Bones society. He played as a pitcher on his baseball team, he declined an opportunity to play for six different professional baseball teams. He nonetheless influenced the game through his invention of the batting cage, Stagg played on the 1888 team. He was an end on the first All-America team, selected in 1889 and he went on to earn an MPE from the Young Mens Christian Training School, now known as Springfield College. On March 11,1892, Stagg, still an instructor at the YMCA School, a crowd of 200 watched as the student team beat the faculty, 5–1. Stagg scored the basket for the losing side. He popularized basketball teams having five players and he later abandoned the theology career and received a MPE from Young Mens Christian Training School in 1891. Stagg became the first paid coach at Williston Seminary, a secondary school. This was also Staggs first time receiving pay to coach football and he would coach there one day a week while also coaching full-time at Springfield College. Stagg then coached at the University of Chicago from 1892 to 1932, University president Robert Maynard Hutchins forced out the septuagenarian Stagg, who he felt was too old to continue coaching
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Ann Arbor, Michigan
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Ann Arbor is a city in the U. S. state of Michigan and the county seat of Washtenaw County. The 2010 census recorded its population to be 113,934, the citys population was estimated at 117,070 as of July 2015 by the U. S. Census Bureau. The Ann Arbor Metropolitan Statistical Area includes all of Washtenaw County, the city is also part of the larger Detroit–Ann Arbor–Flint, MI Combined Statistical Area with a population of 5,318,744. Ann Arbor was founded in 1824, named for wives of the villages founders, the University of Michigan moved from Detroit to Ann Arbor in 1837, and the city grew at a rapid rate in the early to mid-20th century. During the 1960s and 1970s, the city gained a reputation as a center for left-wing politics, Ann Arbor became a focal point for political activism and anti-Vietnam War movement, as well as various student movements. Ann Arbor is home to the University of Michigan, one of the foremost research universities in the United States, the university shapes Ann Arbors economy significantly as it employs about 30,000 workers, including about 12,000 in the medical center. The citys economy is centered on high technology, with several companies drawn to the area by the universitys research and development infrastructure. In about 1774, the Potawatomi founded two villages in the area of what is now Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor was founded in 1824 by land speculators John Allen and Elisha Walker Rumsey. On 25 May 1824, the plat was registered with Wayne County as Annarbour. Allen and Rumsey decided to name it for their wives, both named Ann, and for the stands of Bur Oak in the 640 acres of land purchased for $800 from the federal government at $1.25 per acre. The local Ojibwa named the settlement kaw-goosh-kaw-nick, after the sound of Allens sawmill, Ann Arbor became the seat of Washtenaw County in 1827, and was incorporated as a village in 1833. The Ann Arbor Land Company, a group of speculators, set aside 40 acres of undeveloped land and offered it to the state of Michigan as the site of the state capital, but lost the bid to Lansing. In 1837, the property was accepted instead as the site of the University of Michigan, since the universitys establishment in the city in 1837, the histories of the University of Michigan and Ann Arbor have been closely linked. Throughout the 1840s and the 1850s settlers continued to come to Ann Arbor, while the earlier settlers were primarily of British ancestry, the newer settlers also consisted of Germans, Irish, and African-Americans. In 1851, Ann Arbor was chartered as a city, though the city showed a drop in population during the Depression of 1873. It was not until the early 1880s that Ann Arbor again saw robust growth, with new immigrants coming from Greece, Italy, Russia, Ann Arbor saw increased growth in manufacturing, particularly in milling. Ann Arbors Jewish community also grew after the turn of the 20th century, during the 1960s and 1970s, the city gained a reputation as an important center for liberal politics. Ann Arbor also became a locus for left-wing activism and anti-Vietnam War movement, during the ensuing 15 years, many countercultural and New Left enterprises sprang up and developed large constituencies within the city
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Oberlin Yeomen football
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The Oberlin Yeomen football program represents Oberlin College in college football at the NCAA Division III level. After initially helping form the Ohio Athletic Conference in 1902, Oberlin is now part of the North Coast Athletic Conference, the College plays its home games in the Austin E. Knowlton Athletics Complex, built in 2014. The name Yeomen arose in the early 1900s as a result of blending the former team moniker with the official motto. Early on in the program, football players and other athletes were known simply as Oberlin Men or O Men. Eventually, as the department became more cohesive, the Yeomen mascot was adopted, drawing on the phonetic sound of O Men. Oberlin was the first school coached by the legendary John W. Heisman and he coached the teams in 1892 and 94, the second and fourth seasons that football was a varsity sport at the college. The faculty had not approved football as a prior to 1891. Heisman was a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania where he starred as an end in football, in those days football was quite popular in the East and was just beginning to take root in the Midwest. The hiring of Heisman enabled Oberlin to become one of the teams in the Midwest. Heisman became known as the pioneer in developing the game of football into what it is today with formation shifts, centering the ball. His contribution to Oberlin was in proving that an intelligent coach was a part of the sport. The Heisman name is famous today than back in 1892. As a result, Oberlin named their athletics booster club after Heisman, on a cold Saturday afternoon in November 1892, Oberlins team took the field in Ann Arbor against a heavily favored Michigan squad which had trounced them handily the year before. The teams fastest running back was Charles Savage, who a few years later would become Oberlins director of athletics and, like Heisman, the game in Ann Arbor was close all the way. The team captains agreed on a second half, to end at 4,50 p. m. so Oberlin could catch the last train home. With less than two minutes remaining, Michigan drove to the 5-yard line before Oberlin stopped them and took over on downs, two plays later Oberlin made its final touchdown. Score, Oberlin 24, Michigan 22, with less than a minute to go. As Michigan launched its last drive, the announced that 4,50 p. m. had arrived, time had expired
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Detroit
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Detroit is the most populous city in the U. S. state of Michigan, the fourth-largest city in the Midwest and the largest city on the United States–Canada border. It is the seat of Wayne County, the most populous county in the state, the municipality of Detroit had a 2015 estimated population of 677,116, making it the 21st-most populous city in the United States. Roughly one-half of Michigans population lives in Metro Detroit alone, the Detroit–Windsor area, a commercial link straddling the Canada–U. S. Border, has a population of about 5.7 million. Detroit is a port on the Detroit River, a strait that connects the Great Lakes system to the Saint Lawrence Seaway. The Detroit Metropolitan Airport is among the most important hubs in the United States, the City of Detroit anchors the second-largest economic region in the Midwest, behind Chicago, and the thirteenth-largest in the United States. Detroit and its neighboring Canadian city Windsor are connected through a tunnel and various bridges, Detroit was founded on July 24,1701 by the French explorer and adventurer Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac and a party of settlers. During the 19th century, it became an important industrial hub at the center of the Great Lakes region, with expansion of the American automobile industry in the early 20th century, the Detroit area emerged as a significant metropolitan region within the United States. The city became the fourth-largest in the country for a period, in the 1950s and 1960s, suburban expansion continued with construction of a regional freeway system. A great portion of Detroits public transport was abandoned in favour of becoming a city in the post-war period. Due to industrial restructuring and loss of jobs in the auto industry, between 2000 and 2010 the citys population fell by 25 percent, changing its ranking from the nations 10th-largest city to 18th. In 2010, the city had a population of 713,777 and this resulted from suburbanization, corruption, industrial restructuring and the decline of Detroits auto industry. In 2013, the state of Michigan declared an emergency for the city. Detroit has experienced urban decay as its population and jobs have shifted to its suburbs or elsewhere, conservation efforts managed to save many architectural pieces since the 2000s and allowed several large-scale revitalisations. More recently, the population of Downtown Detroit, Midtown Detroit, paleo-Indian people inhabited areas near Detroit as early as 11,000 years ago. In the 17th century, the region was inhabited by Huron, Odawa, Potawatomi, for the next hundred years, virtually no British, colonist, or French action was contemplated without consultation with, or consideration of the Iroquois likely response. When the French and Indian War evicted the Kingdom of France from Canada, the 1798 raids and resultant 1799 decisive Sullivan Expedition reopened the Ohio Country to westward emigration, which began almost immediately, and by 1800 white settlers were pouring westwards. By 1773, the population of Detroit was 1,400, by 1778, its population was up to 2,144 and it was the third-largest city in the Province of Quebec
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Little Brown Jug (college football trophy)
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The Little Brown Jug is an earthenware jug that serves as a trophy awarded to the winner of the game. It is one of the oldest and most played rivalries in American college football, both universities are founding members of the Big Ten Conference. As a result of the Big Ten not playing a complete schedule, Michigan. In 2011, with the initiation of divisional play, Michigan. However, when the conference expanded again three years later, the teams were split into opposite divisions. The conference stated there will be only one protected crossover matchup under the new alignment, Indiana vs. Purdue for the Old Oaken Bucket, Michigan is the current holder of the jug with a 29–26 victory on October 31,2015. Through the end of the 2015 season, Michigan leads the series, the teams met for the first time in 1892 in Minneapolis, with Minnesota prevailing 14–6. Michigan and Minnesota played five games over the next decade. The earthenware jug, originally used by Michigan coach Fielding H. Yost, is painted with the victories of each team, the name most likely originates in the 1869 song of the same name by Joseph Winner. After Yost took over coaching the Wolverines in 1901, the team went on to win 28 straight games, in the meantime, Minnesota assembled one of the best teams in school history, so Gopher fans were excited about possibly ending the Wolverines streak. When Yost and the team came into Minneapolis for the 1903 game, Yost was somewhat concerned that Gopher fans might contaminate his water supply. Roberts purchased a five-gallon jug for 30¢ from a variety store. Twenty thousand fans watched the matchup between the two teams in an overflowing Northrop Field, Minnesota held the fabled point-a-minute squad to just one touchdown, but hadnt yet managed to score a touchdown of their own. Finally, late in the half, the Gophers reached the endzone to tie the game at 6. As clouds from an impending storm hung overhead, pandemonium struck when Minnesota fans stormed the field in celebration, eventually the game had to be called with two minutes remaining. The Wolverines walked off the field, leaving the jug behind in the room of the University of Minnesota Armory. The next day custodian Oscar Munson brought the jug to L. J. Cooke, head of the Minnesota athletics department, exactly how Munson came to possess the jug is a bit of a mystery. Some accounts say that Munson purposely stole the jug in the chaos that ended the game, Thomas Roberts, writing in 1956, stated that the jug had served its purpose, so he intentionally left it sitting on the field
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Chicago Coliseum
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The first Coliseum stood at State and Washington streets in Chicagos downtown in the late 1860s. The second, at 63rd Street near Stony Island Avenue in the south sides Woodlawn community, in the 1960s and early 1970s it served as a general admission venue for rock concerts, roller derbys and professional wrestling matches, it closed in 1971 and was demolished in 1982. The first Coliseum hosted horse shows, boxing matches, and circus acts beginning in 1866, typical of most 19th century cities, Chicago had a flourishing bachelor subculture, which made events at the Coliseum often rowdy affairs. The arenas history is hazy as there are no sources as to when it opened or closed. The second Coliseum, in the Woodlawn neighborhood on the south side, had a difficult history. Initial construction began early in 1895 on a 14-acre site of the Worlds Columbian Exposition, but on August 22, the structure collapsed. Construction of the 300-by-700 foot building entailed the use of 2.5 million pounds of steel,3.2 million feet of lumber, and 3 million bricks, and was finally completed in June 1896. The building was impressive in size for its day, twice as large as Madison Square Garden, the facility housed seven acres of interior floor space. In October 1896 the Coliseum hosted the Barnum and Bailey Circus, college football teams immediately saw the feasibility of playing indoor games in the Coliseum, and four big games took place, University of Michigan vs. University of Chicago, Thanksgiving Day, November 26,1896, won by Chicago, University of Wisconsin, December 19,1896, won by Carlisle, 18–8. University of Illinois, November 20,1897, won by Carlisle, University of Chicago, Thanksgiving Day, November 25,1897, won by Chicago, 21–12. The Carlisle games represented the first time the Carlisle Indian School played in the Midwest, in January 1897, the Coliseum hosted one of the largest trade shows in the country, the annual Bicycle manufacturers trade show. Another grand trade show took place in October, the Chicago Horse Show, the Coliseum by this time was hailed as a financial success. But all this would come to an end. Despite initial reports of deaths, only one fireman died. The building was destroyed, primarily when one of the 14 arches supporting the roof fell over to bring down all the other arches like a row of dominoes. The fire consumed the building within 20 minutes and this massive structure, one of the greatest indoor facilities of the 19th century, had a lifespan of only 19 months. Candy manufacturer Charles F. Gunther built the third Coliseum on Wabash Avenue and he purchased Libby Prison, a structure in Richmond, Virginia, constructed as a warehouse which became a Confederate prison during the Civil War
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Chicago
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Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the third-most populous city in the United States. With over 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the state of Illinois, and it is the county seat of Cook County. In 2012, Chicago was listed as a global city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network. Chicago has the third-largest gross metropolitan product in the United States—about $640 billion according to 2015 estimates, the city has one of the worlds largest and most diversified economies with no single industry employing more than 14% of the workforce. In 2016, Chicago hosted over 54 million domestic and international visitors, landmarks in the city include Millennium Park, Navy Pier, the Magnificent Mile, Art Institute of Chicago, Museum Campus, the Willis Tower, Museum of Science and Industry, and Lincoln Park Zoo. Chicagos culture includes the arts, novels, film, theater, especially improvisational comedy. Chicago also has sports teams in each of the major professional leagues. The city has many nicknames, the best-known being the Windy City, the name Chicago is derived from a French rendering of the Native American word shikaakwa, known to botanists as Allium tricoccum, from the Miami-Illinois language. The first known reference to the site of the current city of Chicago as Checagou was by Robert de LaSalle around 1679 in a memoir, henri Joutel, in his journal of 1688, noted that the wild garlic, called chicagoua, grew abundantly in the area. In the mid-18th century, the area was inhabited by a Native American tribe known as the Potawatomi, the first known non-indigenous permanent settler in Chicago was Jean Baptiste Point du Sable. Du Sable was of African and French descent and arrived in the 1780s and he is commonly known as the Founder of Chicago. In 1803, the United States Army built Fort Dearborn, which was destroyed in 1812 in the Battle of Fort Dearborn, the Ottawa, Ojibwe, and Potawatomi tribes had ceded additional land to the United States in the 1816 Treaty of St. Louis. The Potawatomi were forcibly removed from their land after the Treaty of Chicago in 1833, on August 12,1833, the Town of Chicago was organized with a population of about 200. Within seven years it grew to more than 4,000 people, on June 15,1835, the first public land sales began with Edmund Dick Taylor as U. S. The City of Chicago was incorporated on Saturday, March 4,1837, as the site of the Chicago Portage, the city became an important transportation hub between the eastern and western United States. Chicagos first railway, Galena and Chicago Union Railroad, and the Illinois, the canal allowed steamboats and sailing ships on the Great Lakes to connect to the Mississippi River. A flourishing economy brought residents from rural communities and immigrants from abroad, manufacturing and retail and finance sectors became dominant, influencing the American economy. The Chicago Board of Trade listed the first ever standardized exchange traded forward contracts and these issues also helped propel another Illinoisan, Abraham Lincoln, to the national stage
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Hazen S. Pingree
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Hazen Stuart Pingree was a four-term Republican mayor of Detroit and the 24th Governor of the U. S. State of Michigan. A Yankee who migrated from New England, he was a Georgist social reformer who battled corporations and was a leader of the Progressive Movement. A businessman with no experience, Pingree was elected mayor in 1889 after a colorful campaign in which Pingree revealed his tolerance by making a circuit of saloons. Pingree added to the old stock Yankee Republican base by making large inroads into the German and Canadian elements and he was reelected in 1891,1893 and 1895. Warning repeatedly against the dangers of government by corporations, he launched nationally visible crusades against Detroits streetcar, gas, electric and he successfully forced rate reductions that won him widespread popularity. He won public approval for an electric light plant, and became a national spokesman for municipal ownership and close regulation of utilities. When the nationwide Panic of 1893 caused a depression, Pingree gained support by opening empty lots to garden farming – people called him Potato Patch Pingree. Pingree was a Republican, and had nothing to do with the Populist Party that had considerable support among union members. He supported the standard in 1896, and worked to carry Michigan for William McKinley over silverite William Jennings Bryan in the intensely competitive 1896 U. S. presidential election. Pingree was on the ballot, too, and was elected governor of Michigan and this led to a rational basis for railroad regulation and taxation, emulated by Progressive reformers in other states and nationwide. A survey of scholars in 1999 ranked Pingree as the fourth best mayor in all of American history, Pingree was born in Denmark, Maine, to Jasper Pingree and Adeline Pingree and attended the common schools in Maine. At the age of fourteen, he moved to Saco, Maine, two years later, he moved to Hopkinton, Massachusetts, and worked several years as a cutter in a shoe factory. In 1862, Pingree enlisted in the Union Army to serve in the Civil War with the 1st Massachusetts Heavy Artillery Regiment and he fought on the front line during General Pope’s Northern Virginia Campaign and the Second Battle of Bull Run. The regiment he fought with was ordered to defend Washington, D. C. until May 15,1864. He fought with the Second Brigade of Tyler’s Division, Second Corps, which participated in battles at Fredericksburg Road, Harris Farm, Pingree was confined in Confederate prisons at Gordonsville and Lynchburg, Virginia, and at Salisbury, North Carolina. Pingree rejoined his regiment, fought in more battles, and was present at Appomattox Court House when Robert E. Lee surrendered on April 9,1865. A few months later, on August 15, his regiment was mustered out, Pingree was a cobbler by trade and, following the war, moved to Detroit and briefly worked for H. P. Baldwins shoe company. In 1866, Pingree and his accountant, Charles H. Smith, purchased Baldwins shoe-making machinery and formed the Pingree, in 1883, Smith retired from the firm and J. B
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University of Chicago
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The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois. It holds top-ten positions in national and international rankings and measures. The university currently enrolls approximately 5,700 students in the College, Chicagos physics department helped develop the worlds first man-made, self-sustaining nuclear reaction beneath the viewing stands of universitys Stagg Field. The university is home to the University of Chicago Press. With an estimated date of 2020, the Barack Obama Presidential Center will be housed at the university. Both Harper and future president Robert Maynard Hutchins advocated for Chicagos curriculum to be based upon theoretical and perennial issues rather than on applied sciences, the University of Chicago has many prominent alumni. 92 Nobel laureates have been affiliated with the university as professors, students, faculty, or staff, similarly,34 faculty members and 16 alumni have been awarded the MacArthur “Genius Grant”. Rockefeller on land donated by Marshall Field, while the Rockefeller donation provided money for academic operations and long-term endowment, it was stipulated that such money could not be used for buildings. The original physical campus was financed by donations from wealthy Chicagoans like Silas B, Cobb who provided the funds for the campus first building, Cobb Lecture Hall, and matched Marshall Fields pledge of $100,000. Organized as an independent institution legally, it replaced the first Baptist university of the same name, william Rainey Harper became the modern universitys first president on July 1,1891, and the university opened for classes on October 1,1892. The business school was founded thereafter in 1898, and the law school was founded in 1902, Harper died in 1906, and was replaced by a succession of three presidents whose tenures lasted until 1929. During this period, the Oriental Institute was founded to support, in 1896, the university affiliated with Shimer College in Mount Carroll, Illinois. The agreement provided that either party could terminate the affiliation on proper notice, several University of Chicago professors disliked the program, as it involved uncompensated additional labor on their part, and they believed it cheapened the academic reputation of the university. The program passed into history by 1910, in 1929, the universitys fifth president, Robert Maynard Hutchins, took office, the university underwent many changes during his 24-year tenure. In 1933, Hutchins proposed a plan to merge the University of Chicago. During his term, the University of Chicago Hospitals finished construction, also, the Committee on Social Thought, an institution distinctive of the university, was created. Money that had been raised during the 1920s and financial backing from the Rockefeller Foundation helped the school to survive through the Great Depression, during World War II, the university made important contributions to the Manhattan Project. The university was the site of the first isolation of plutonium and of the creation of the first artificial, in the early 1950s, student applications declined as a result of increasing crime and poverty in the Hyde Park neighborhood
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Clarence Herschberger
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Clarence Bert Herschie Herschberger was an American football fullback, punter and placekicker. He played for the University of Chicago from 1896 to 1898 and he was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1970. A native of Peoria, Illinois, Herschberger enrolled at the University of Chicago in 1894 where he became an honor student and he also earned a total of 13 varsity letters in track, football and baseball. He played for Amos Alonzo Staggs football teams from 1894 to 1898 and was one of the first of the great football stars developed by Stagg and he was captain of the 1898 Chicago team. Although he weighed only 158 pounds, Herschberger played fullback and was the kicker for Staggs Maroons and he was known for making key plays in big games. In 1896, Herschberger picked up a ball in a game against the Michigan Wolverines. In 1898, the Chicago football team played the Penn Quakers and lost 23 to 11, bringing attention to Herschberger. Bob Sensenderfer of the Philadelphia Bulletin writes I saw Herschberger play in that game and he sure could kick but it didnt do much good, for his ends couldnt get down to cover them and Penns Johnny Gardiner got em back pretty well every time. After the 1898 season, Camp chose Herschberger as the fullback for his 1898 College Football All-America Team—the first player from a western school to be so honored. In the years when Herschberger played, Stagg emphasized the kicking game, Staggs goal was to move the ball inside the opponents 40-yard line. Stagg then turned to Herschberger who established a record for field goals, Herschberger was also considered an excellent punter, making him a key asset in Staggs strategy of maximizing field position. The Maroons had a record of 35–8 during Herschbergers time with the team, Herschberger has also been credited with a number of innovations in the sport. He was believed to be the first player to kick spiral punts and he has also been credited as the first player to do an onside kick and most likely the first player to ever receive an x-ray for an injury. There are accounts that Herschberger challenged Chicagos quarterback Walter S. Kennedy to an eating contest before a game with the Wisconsin Badgers. After eating 13 eggs on the morning of the game, Herschberger was unable to due to gastritis. Chicago lost the game 23–8, leading Stagg to say, We werent beaten by 11 Badgers and we were beaten by 13 eggs. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1970, after graduating from the University of Chicago, Herschberger worked as a football coach at Chicago, Lake Forest Academy, and Lake Forest College in Lake Forest, Illinois. From 1907 to 1921, he lived in New York where he was associated with financier Frank Vanderlip and he later returned to Chicago where he worked in the real estate business
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Peoria, Illinois
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Peoria is a city in and the county seat of Peoria County, Illinois, United States, and the largest city on the Illinois River. Established in 1691 by the French explorer Henri de Tonti, Peoria is the oldest European settlement in Illinois, as of the 2010 census, the city was the seventh-most populated in Illinois, with a population of 115,007. The Peoria Metropolitan Statistical Area had a population of 373,590 in 2011, Peoria had a population of 118,943 in 2010, when far northern Peoria was also included. Around 12,000 jobs will still remain in the Peoria area, Peoria is one of the oldest settlements in Illinois, as explorers first ventured up the Illinois River from the Mississippi. The lands that eventually would become Peoria were first settled in 1680 and this fort would later burn to the ground, and in 1813 Fort Clark, Illinois was built. When the County of Peoria was organized in 1825, Fort Clark was officially named Peoria, Peoria was named after the Peoria tribe, a member of the Illinois Confederation. The original meaning of the word is uncertain, a 21st-century proposal suggests a derivation from a Proto-Algonquian word meaning to dream with the help of a manitou. Peoria was incorporated as a village on March 11,1835, the city did not have a mayor, though they had a village president, Rudolphus Rouse, who served from 1835 to 1836. The first Chief of Police, John B Lishk, was appointed in 1837, the city was incorporated on April 21,1845. This was the end of a president and the start of the mayoral system. Peoria, Arizona, a suburb of Phoenix, was named after Peoria, greenhut and Deloss S. Brown − wished to name it after their hometown. Peoria is located at 40°43′15″N 89°36′34″W, according to the 2010 census, Peoria has a total area of 50.23 square miles, of which 48.01 square miles is land and 2.22 square miles is water. Peoria is bounded on the east by the Illinois River except for the enclave of Peoria Heights, four bridges run directly between the city and neighboring East Peoria. On the south end of Peorias western border are Bartonville and the established city of West Peoria. Local municipal plans indicate that the city intends to continue its expansion northwest, into an area considered part of Dunlap. Peoria has a continental climate, with cold, snowy winters. Monthly daily mean temperatures range from 22.5 °F to 75.2 °F, snowfall is common in the winter, averaging 26.3 inches, but this figure varies considerably from year to year. Precipitation, averaging 36 inches, peaks in the spring and summer, extremes have ranged from −27 °F in January 1884 to 113 °F in July 1936
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Eastern Michigan University
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Eastern Michigan University is a comprehensive, co-educational public university located in Ypsilanti, Michigan. Ypsilanti is 35 miles west of Detroit and eight miles east of Ann Arbor, the university was founded in 1849 as Michigan State Normal School. Today, the university is governed by an eight-member Board of Regents whose members are appointed by the Governor of Michigan for eight-year terms, the school belongs to the Mid-American Conference and is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools. Since 1991 EMU athletics has gone by the name Eagles, then in 1994, Swoop was officially adopted by the university as the schools mascot. The universitys site is composed of an academic and athletic campus spread across 800 acres, EMU has a total enrollment of more than 23,000 students. The university was founded in 1849 and opened its doors in 1853 as Michigan State Normal School, Michigan State Normal School was the first in Michigan and the first normal school created outside the original 13 colonies. One hundred and twenty-two students started classes March 29,1853, adonijah Welch served as Michigan State Normal Schools first principal. Michigan created an educational system modeled on that of Germany. The normal schools were to train teachers for schools, which were being established rapidly in new towns in the state. In 1899, the became the Michigan State Normal College when it created the first four-year curriculum for a normal college in the nation. Normal began the 20th century as Michigans premier teacher-preparatory school and had become the first teacher-training school in the United States to have a degree program. Just like many universities during World War I, the Great Depression and World War II. With the additions of departments and the large educational enrollment after WWII, in 1959 the school became a university gaining the title Eastern Michigan University after establishing the Graduate School. In the early 1970s, international student exchange schemes were organised, in 2005, the Honors Program became the Eastern Michigan University Honors College. More recently, extended programs were added such as Continuing Education, the Centers for Corporate Training, today the universitys total student population averages about 23,000, of whom roughly 5,000 are graduate students. Most programs are undergraduate or masters level, although the university has programs in Educational Leadership, Technology. EMU former-President Susan W. Martin, Ph. D, other institutions of higher education established by law having authority to grant baccalaureate degrees shall each be governed by a board of control which shall be a body corporate. The board shall have general supervision of the institution and the control and it shall, as often as necessary, elect a president of the institution under its supervision
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Fielding H. Yost
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Fielding Harris Yost was an American football player and coach and college athletics administrator. During his 25 seasons as the football coach in Ann Arbor, Yosts Michigan Wolverines won six national championships, captured ten Big Ten Conference titles. From 1901 to 1905, his Point-a-Minute squads went 55–1–1, outscoring their opponents by a margin of 2,821 to 42, the 1901 team beat Stanford, 49–0, in the 1902 Rose Bowl, the first college football bowl game ever played. Under Yost, Michigan won four national championships from 1901 to 1904. In 1921, Yost became Michigans athletic director and served in capacity until 1940. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1951, Yost was also a successful business person, lawyer, and author, but he is best known as a leading figure in pioneering the development of college football into a national phenomenon. Yost was born in Fairview, West Virginia, in April 1871, Yosts family had settled in West Virginia, in 1925. He was the oldest of four children of Parmenus Wesley Yost and Elzena Jane Yost and his father was a farmer and Confederate veteran. His family had been in Fairview since 1825 when his great, great grandfather, David Yost, settled there, Yost was educated in the local schools and became a deputy marshal in Fairview as a teenager. At seventeen, he got a teaching certificate. Yost began his education at Fairmont Normal School in Fairmont. He then taught school at Patterson Creek, West Virginia, during the 1889–90 school year, Yost next enrolled at Ohio Normal School. Yost played for the Ohio Normal baseball team, after three years at Ohio Normal, Yost returned to West Virginia to work in the oil fields. In 1895, Yost enrolled at West Virginia University where he studied law and he also played football for West Virginia University football team. A 6-foot,200 pounder, Yost was a standout at tackle at West Virginia into the 1896 season and he transferred in mid-season to join Coach Parke H. Daviss national championship team at Lafayette. Just a week playing against Davis in West Virginia, Yost was playing for Davis in Lafayettes historic 6–4 win over the Penn Quakers. The fortuitous timing of Yosts appearance on the Lafayette roster did not go unnoticed by Penn officials and they called it the Yost affair. The Philadelphia Ledger quoted Yost as saying that he came to Lafayette only to play football, the fact that Yost appeared in a Lafayette uniform only once, in the Penn game, and that he returned to West Virginia within two weeks of the contest did not help appearances
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The Michigan Daily
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The Michigan Daily is the daily student newspaper of the University of Michigan. Its first edition was published on September 29,1890, in 2007, renovations to the historic building at 420 Maynard were completed, funded entirely by private donations from alumni. To dedicate the building, a reunion of the staffs of The Michigan Daily, the Michiganensian yearbook. The Michigan Daily is published in broadsheet form five days a week, Monday through Friday, during the Fall and it is published weekly in tabloid form from May to August. Mondays contain a lengthy SportsMonday Sports section, every other Thursday, the Arts section publishes an extended, themed issue called The B-Side. Wednesdays include a magazine, originally titled Weekend Magazine, in the fall of 2005, the magazine was renamed The Statement, a reference to former Daily Editor in Chief Tom Haydens Port Huron Statement. Daily print circulation is currently over 18,000 copies, with over 230,000 unique visitors per month to its website, following the closure of The Ann Arbor News in July 2009, The Michigan Daily became the only printed daily newspaper published in Washtenaw County. In 2010, a former press secretary said the Daily staff had a strong moral responsibility to expand their coverage. In 1952, the Soviet delegate to the United Nations, F. A. Novikov, on April 12,1955, when the success of Jonas Salks polio vaccine was announced at the University of Michigan the Daily was the first newspaper to report it. In 1957, the Daily sent a member to Little Rock, Arkansas who, pretending to be a student. The Daily was instrumental in the spread of the Paul is dead urban legend, an October 14,1969 Daily article by Fred LaBour and John Gray, entitled McCartney Dead, New Evidence Brought to Light, itemized various clues, many of them of their own invention. Their reporting of McCartneys death is claimed by Beatleologist Andru J. Reeve to have been the single most significant factor in the breadth of the rumors spread. Daily alumni who have won a Pulitzer Prize include, Daniel Biddle,1987 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting, Philadelphia Inquirer with H. G. Bissinger and Fredric N
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William Caley
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William Henry Big Bill Caley was an American football player, lawyer, and mine operator. He played college football for the University of Colorado at Boulder from 1893 to 1895, with runs of 75 and 80 yards in 1894 and 1895, he set the all-time Colorado Buffaloes record for longest rushing play – a record that was not broken for nearly 40 years. He was also the leading scorer on the undefeated 1898 Michigan Wolverines football team that won the universitys first Western Conference football championship. He was selected as a first-team All-Western player by both Caspar Whitney and the Chicago Daily Tribune, after graduating from Michigan, he returned to Colorado where he practiced law and operated grocery and mining businesses. Caley was born in 1873 in Missouri and his parents, Franklin T. and Grace Caley, moved to Colorado when Caley was an infant. His father operated a hotel and engaged in the mining, cattle, in the 1890s, the family moved to a 1, 600-acre ranch near Littleton, Colorado, eventually operating a cheese factory that became one of the leading businesses in the Littleton area. Caley studied as an undergraduate at the University of Colorado at Boulder, while attending Colorado, he played at the halfback position on the football team from 1893 to 1895. He was the captain of the 1895 Colorado Buffaloes football team, as team captain, he led a group that recruited Fred Folsom to the University of Colorado as its football coach in 1895. His 80-yard run in a 28-0 victory over Denver on November 5,1895, was a Colorado Buffaloes rushing record for nearly 40 years and he had previously set the record with a 75-yard run in a 67-0 victory over Colorado State on October 27,1894. He was selected as the best all-round athlete at the University of Colorados field day in 1895, in 1904, a writer in the Denver Times wrote that Caley was probably the best football player ever turned out of the University of Colorado. Caley enrolled at the University of Michigan as a law student in 1896, Caley received his Bachelor of Laws degree from Michigan in 1899. Caley later recalled that he enrolled at Michigan to study law, while watching the team practice one night, Michigans football coach William Ward spotted Caley and asked him to put on a uniform and play. During the first practice session, Caley broke the leg of Michigans captain, when he did not show up for practice the next day, Ward came looking for him. When Caley said he did not wish to play football, Ward insisted that the team needed him. Caley recalled his response to the coach as follows, Well, Im paying you good money to come here and study law, ill play the season out for $350, and if we beat Chicago it will cost you $500. Ward laughed at the proposition, and Caley continued studying law, during a game against Purdue, Ward saw Caley watching the game from the stands and talked with him during halftime. Caley suited up and joined the team for the second half, Caley became a key player on the Michigan Wolverines football team from 1896 to 1898. In 1897, he helped lead the Wolverines to a 34-0 victory in the game of the Michigan–Ohio State football rivalry
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Clayton Teetzel
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Clayton Tryon Teetzel was an American athlete and athletic coach. Teetzel was born in Michigan in 1876 and his father, William H. Teetzel, was a native of Canada who worked as a traveling salesman. His mother, Carrie Teetzel, was a native of Michigan, at the time of the 1880 United States Census, Teetzel was living with his parents and older brother, William H. Teetzel, in Indianapolis, Indiana. The family later moved to Chicago where the father worked as a salesman, Teetzel became a track star at Englewood High School in 1894. In 1895, Teetzel transferred to the Michigan Military Academy in Orchard Lake, Michigan, during his high school career, he won Illinois state high school championships in the 440-yard dash and 880-yard run, and finished in the top three in the 220-yard dash and the mile run. Teetzel also played football for Englewood, after leading Englewood to a 28–6 victory over rival Lake View, a Chicago newspaper wrote, The playing of Teetzel was the feature of the game. The Lake View men seemed unable to stop him when he had the ball, at one time he broke through the line of the opposing team and carried the ball 100 yards for a touchdown and made many runs of from thirty to forty yards. The Englewood school newspaper lauded his contributions as follows, Clayton Teetzel, at Right Half Back and he is as good a player as Englewood High School has ever turned out, and is capable of playing on almost any college team in the country. A swift runner, dodger and exceedingly difficult to tackle, he hits the line with almost irresistible force, all the praise and flattery that he gets fails to make him conceited, which amount to a virtue in his case. He probably has carried the oval more yards than any high school player in the country this year. After graduating from school, Teetzel enrolled at the University of Michigan where he played football. Teetzel played end for the 1897 Michigan Wolverines football team compiled a record of 6–1–1. Outside of Teetzel and Quarterback Howard Felver, however, the Chicago players outplayed their opponents, Teetzel also played at the end position for the undefeated 1898 Michigan Wolverines football team that won the universitys first Western Conference championship. In 1899, Teetzel moved to the position for the Wolverines team that compiled an 8–2 record. Teetzel graduated from the University of Michigan Law School with an LL. B. degree in 1900, Teetzel served as the football coach at Michigan State Normal College, now Eastern Michigan University, from 1900 through 1902, compiling a 6-14-1 record. He was the first person to coach at MSNC for longer than one year and he served as the football coach at Benton Harbor High School from 1903 to 1904. In 2002, a book titled The Way We Played the Game, A True Story of One Team, the book told the story of Benton Harbor High Schools 1903 football team and American football in its nascent form. Coach Teetzel is depicted in the book as a disciplined strategist who teaches his players a thinking mans game
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John W. F. Bennett
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John W. F. Bennett was an American civil engineer and football player. He played football for the University of Michigan from 1896 to 1898, as a civil engineer, he supervised the construction of important buildings in New York and London, including the Algonquin Hotel in New York and the Ritz and Waldorf Hotels in London. Bennett was born in Chicago in approximately 1875 and his father, John Wesley Bennett, was a lawyer in Chicago who had served as a lieutenant colonel in the Army of the Potomac during the American Civil War. In 1885, the moved to Austin, Illinois, which was then a sparsely settled suburb of Chicago. Bennett played football at Austin High School, after graduating from high school, Bennett enrolled at the University of Michigan. He played for the Michigan Wolverines football and track teams for three years and he played football at the guard position in 1896 and at end in 1897 and 1898. He was the captain of the 1898 team that won the schools first Western Conference championship with an undefeated and he graduated from Michigan in 1899 with a Bachelor of Science degree in civil engineering. Bennett remained active in University of Michigan affairs in his later years and he was the president of the University of Michigan Club from 1917 to 1918. He also served as president of the M Club, the organization of Michigans varsity letter winners, in 1943, he was elected president of the Touchdown Club of America. Bennett worked for the Thompson-Starrett Company in New York from 1901 to 1904, during these years, he supervised the construction of the St. Regis and Algonquin Hotels in New York and a factory for Bailey Banks and Biddle, jewelers, in Philadelphia. From 1904 to 1909, Bennett worked for the Waring-White Building Company of London, Bennett returned to New York in 1910 and served as the New York City Deputing and Acting Commissioner of Water Supply. In that position, he advised the city on engineering matters arising out of the water departments $10 million annual budget, from 1914 to 1918, Bennett was a consulting engineer working for the president of the Borough of Bronx. During World War I, Bennett served in the United States Army and he was a major in the Quartermaster Corps and supervised the construction of a supply base in Brooklyn, New York. After being discharged from the Army, Bennett worked for the American Sugar Refining Company from 1919 to 1923 and he was chairman of the companys engineering consulting board and oversaw the construction of the companys refinery in Baltimore, Maryland. In 1924, Bennett was hired by the engineering and construction firm, Stevens & Wood and he was a vice president of the company from 1924 to 1930. In his later years, Bennett lived at 1105 Park Avenue in New York and his wife, Harriet Connable Bennett, died in 1941. Bennett died at his Park Avenue home in 1943 at age 68 and he was survived by his son John Connable Bennett, who was serving in the U. S. Army Air Forces at the time. Bennett, Jr. was living with Bennett at the time of Bennetts death
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William Wilson Talcott
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William Wilson Talcott was an American football player, school teacher, newspaper publisher, and ice cream manufacturer. Talcott played college football for the University of Michigan in 1897 and 1898 and was the quarterback for the undefeated 1898 Michigan Wolverines football team. After graduating from Michigan, he worked as a teacher in Illinois. He entered the publishing business in 1905 and published The Englewood Economist from September 1906 to January 1918. From 1918 to 1920, he was the manager of the Paris edition of the Chicago Tribune. He later went into the ice business in Chicago. In August 1922, Talcott led a battle with the head of a so-called love cult with which his wife had become involved. The legal battle received national newspaper coverage, when his wife refused to part ways with the cult, Talcott committed suicide by jumping from an excursion boat off the shore of Chicago with rocks in his pockets. Talcott was born in December 1878 in Valparaiso, Indiana and he was the second of five children of Charles Ransom Talcott and Harriet E. Malone, who were married in October 1873. His father was a native of Valparaiso who began his career as a school teacher, from 1874 to 1886, his father was the publisher of the Porter County Vidette, a local newspaper in Valparaiso. In August 1886, when Talcott was seven years old, the moved to Chicago where his father worked for many years at the Western Publishing House. After the familys move to Chicago, Talcott grew up in the Englewood neighborhood on Chicagos South Side and he attended the public schools in Englewood and graduated from Englewood High School. As a senior in the fall of 1896, Talcott was captain, in September 1896, the Chicago Tribune wrote, Englewood has always come into the field with a team of strong and heavy men. This years team will be no exception to the rule, Talcott, quarter back, is Captain, and he has all of last years line men to work with. The 1896 Englewood team, led by Talcott and end Clayton Teetzel, the season ended with a 38–6 victory over Hyde Park, which was described in the Englewood High School newspaper as follows, The final game with Hyde Park. was the greatest of all. To defeat our ancient rivals was the happiest ambition of the team, the defeat of 95 still rankles in the breasts of seven of the team, and they were determined to do or die. It was a victory, the score being 38 to 6. In the fall of 1897, Talcott and his Englewood teammate Clayton Teetzel enrolled at the University of Michigan as students in the Literary Department, during Talcotts freshman year, he played as a backup quarterback for the 1897 Michigan Wolverines football team
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John McLean (athlete)
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For other persons named John McLean, see John McLean. John Frederick McLean was an All-American college football player, track and field athlete and he won a silver medal in the 110 metre hurdles at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris with a time of 15.5 seconds. He was also selected as an All-American football player in 1899 while playing for the University of Michigan and he went on to coach the Knox College and University of Missouri football teams in the 1900s. He was dismissed from his position at Missouri in January 1906 after being accused of paying money to a player. Knox College voted him into their athletic Hall of Fame in 2012, McLeans hometown was Menominee, Michigan, a lumber town located in Michigans Upper Peninsula. He enrolled in the University of Michigan where he became an athlete in American football, track and field. He played as a substitute on Michigans 1897 football team and played halfback for the 1898 and 1899 teams. McLean was also a member of Michigans track and baseball teams, in May 1899, McLean set the University of Michigan school record in the 120-yard hurdles with a time of 16-1/5 seconds. On the same day, he broke a western intercollegiate record in the running broad jump by clearing 23 feet. In 1898, McLean played on Michigans first Western Conference championship football team, the Wolverines won the championship with a 12–11 victory over Chicago—a game that inspired Louis Elbel to write the University of Michigans fight song, The Victors. McLean contributed to the win over Chicago with a return to the 50-yard line. In November 1899, McLean led the Wolverines in a game against eastern football power, the Wolverines lost the game 11–10, but McLeans play at left halfback drew praise in newspaper accounts carried across the country. McLean made several runs, principally on end runs. Michigan scored its first touchdown wholly on a series of runs by McLean, the score came on a 22-yard end run that set the Michigan rooters fairly wild. The New York Times reported that even the Penn fans showed their appreciation for McLean -- his brilliant sprinting around Pennsylvanias ends often brought applause from the followers of the Quakers. McLeans final game for Michigan was a November 1899 match against the University of Wisconsin played in front of 17,000 fans in Chicago, newspaper accounts reported that Michigans crack halfback McLean made one of his end runs with ten minutes to play—a forty-yard run for a touchdown. After the season ended, McLean received acknowledgement with his selection as a first-team All-American, including All-American selections by The Philadelphia Inquirer, McLean competed for the United States in track and field events at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris. He won the medal in the 110 metre hurdles with a time of 15.5 seconds
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William C. Malley
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William Charles Malley was an American football player and coach. He played college football for the University of Michigan from 1888 to 1890, a native of Chicago, Illinois, Malley played tackle and guard for the University of Michigan Wolverines football teams from 1888 to 1890. He was the captain of the 1890 team that finished with a 4–1 record, in 1892 Malley became the head football at Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Indiana. He held that position for one season and his record at Wabash was 1–4, Malley returned to the University of Michigan as an assistant football coach for the 1897 and 1898 Michigan Wolverines football teams. Malley graduated from Michigans law department in 1891 and became employed with the law firm of Moran and he later went into partnership with Edwin W. Sims, who became the U. S. Attorney in Chicago. His father John OMalley built the first packing house in Chicago, Malley later became an election commissioner in Chicago. In December 1907, the Chicago Daily Tribune reported that Malley, family difficulties relating to an unhappy marriage were reported to have resulted in a breakdown. He died six months later at age 40, Malley at the College Football Data Warehouse
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John A. Bloomingston
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John Albert Bloomingston was an American attorney and football and baseball player and coach. He played at the position for the University of Michigan football teams in 1894 and 1895. He was the scorer on the 1895 Michigan Wolverines football team that outscored opponents 266 to 14. He scored as many as 32 points in a single game, the Wolverines compiled a record of 17–2–1 in Bloomingstons two years as the starting fullback and never lost a game against a Western team. After graduating from Michigan, he one of the best known trial lawyers in Chicago. Bloomingston was born in Chicago in 1874 and he was the son of John S. Bloomingston and Frances E. Drake Bloomingston. His father was an immigrant from Switzerland and the editor and proprietor of the Investigator and his mother was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution and a descendant of Col. Samuel Drake and William Hooker. Bloomingston attended the Pennsylvania Military College in Chester, Pennsylvania, while attending Michigan, Bloomingston was one of the universitys best athletes. He played fullback for the Michigan Wolverines football team and second base for the Michigan Wolverines baseball team and he received a Bachelor of Law degree from the University of Michigan in 1896. In 1894, Bloomingston was the fullback for the 1894 Michigan Wolverines football team that finished the season with a record of 9–1–1. On November 24,1894, he helped Michigan defeat Cornell, 12–4, five days later, Bloomingston kicked the goal from touchdown which proved to be the winning points in a 6–4 win over Chicago. In the spring of 1895, Bloomingston played second base for the Michigan baseball team, on May 30,1895, he led Michigan to an 11–0 win over Cornell at the Detroit Athletic Club field in Detroit. A crowd of 4,000 watched, the Detroit Free Press wrote that Bloomingston carried off the honors with two homers and a single. Bloomingstons first home run came in the inning and was described by the Free Press as follows. He caught one of Smiths twisters on the nose and the ball landed in the crowd in the stand in left field, in a second the stands and the field were a mass of yellow and blue and Bloomy, as the crowd called him, got a football ovation. His second home run came in the inning, The crowd yelled for another home run. In the fall of 1895, Bloomingston was the scorer for the 1895 Michigan Wolverines football team that outscored opponents 266 to 14. The following week, Bloomingston added 20 points against Lake Forest, one week later, Bloomingston added 18 points in a 42–0 victory over Oberlin
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Horace Prettyman
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Horace Greely Prettyman was an American football player in the early years of the sport. Prettyman won a record eight varsity letters at the University of Michigan and he was the teams captain in 1884,1885, and 1886, and scored the first touchdown in the first game played at Michigans first home football field in Ann Arbor. Prettyman was born in Stryker, Ohio, and raised in Bryan and he was the son of Lewis Prettyman, a farmer, and Hannah Prettyman. Prettyman attended Ann Arbor High School and subsequently enrolled in the University of Michigan in 1882 at age 24, in addition to football, Prettyman also won competitions in the hammer throw, boxing and wrestling. In 1882, Prettyman was a rusher for the Michigan football team, however, the team played no intercollegiate games. In 1883, Michigan resumed a schedule of football. The team played its first ever game at the Ann Arbor Fairgrounds in March 1883. Prettyman scored the first touchdown at the Fairgrounds at the 14-minute mark of the first inning, the team played its remaining games as part of an Eastern trip in November 1883. The trip consisted of four games in eight days at Wesleyan and Yale in Connecticut, Harvard in Massachusetts. The trip cost $3,000 and was arranged to represent and advertise the college among the Eastern cities and universities. On the trip, the team lost to Yale 46–0, the worst defeat to that time in the history of Michigan football, the Yale game was played on a Saturday, and Michigan played Harvard the next day, losing 3–0. He pitch dark for the whole of this prevented the teams from distinguishing friend from foe. It was one continuous scramble, and the spectators were unable to distinguish any of the actions, late in the game, Michigan appeared to have scored the winning touchdown on a trick play, called the time-honored fake run. Prettyman began running with teammate Henry Killilea behind him, just before being tackled, Prettyman passed the ball to Killilea, who ran for the touchdown while Prettyman ran head-on into the Harvard full-back. The Harvard umpire called the ball was down where Prettyman had been tackled, some claimed that the Harvard umpire had not seen the play due to the darkness, and had called Prettyman down at the urging of a Harvard player. The Michigan team arranged to stay and play another game the next day, however, according to a 1920 history of the University of Michigan, Harvard refused and instead pleaded faculty interference and paid a $100 forfeit. In 1884, Prettyman was chosen as captain of the football team, the team won both of its intercollegiate games, including an 18 to 10 win in its first match against its eventual rival, the University of Chicago. The team beat Albion College 18 to 0 in its game in 1884
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Edwin Denby (politician)
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Edwin Denby was an American lawyer and politician who served as Secretary of the Navy in the administrations of Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge from 1921 to 1924. He also played a role in the infamous Teapot Dome scandal which took place during the Harding presidency. He was the son of Charles Harvey Denby, grandson of Graham N. Fitch, brother of Charles Denby, Jr. Denby was born in Evansville, Indiana, where he attended the public schools. In 1885, his father, Charles Harvey Denby, was appointed United States minister at Peking, China, by President Grover Cleveland and he worked in the maritime customs service from 1887 to 1894. He then returned to the United States and graduated from law school at the University of Michigan in 1896, while attending the University of Michigan, Denby played on the 1895 Michigan Wolverines football team. He was subsequently admitted to the bar and began practicing as a lawyer in Detroit and he was a member of the Michigan House of Representatives in 1903. In 1904, Denby was elected as a Republican from Michigans 1st congressional district to the 59th, 60th and 61st Congresses, serving from March 4,1905, Denby served as chairman of the United States House Committee on Naval Affairs. He was defeated in 1910 general election by Democrat Frank E. Doremus and he served as president of the Detroit Board of Commerce in 1916, and in 1917 enlisted as a private in the United States Marine Corps when the U. S. entered World War I. He was discharged in 1919 with the rank of major, when Warren G. Harding became President in March 1921, he appointed Denby Secretary of the Navy. During the crisis of mail robberies in 1921, Denby issued orders that Marines should be put in mail trucks, one may die, but the other will get the robber, and the mail will get through. When our Corps goes in as guards over the mail, that mail must be delivered, within days, the robberies stopped, and there was not a single delivery of the mails disrupted while Marines stood the watch. Fall proceeded to lease these oil fields to friends who were heads of oil companies in exchange for over $400,000 in personal loans. Despite attempts to keep the secret, the Wall Street Journal leaked news of the leasing. Both Denby and Fall were forced to resign from office as a result, however, following his resignation, Denby went back to practicing law in Detroit, where he died several weeks before his 59th birthday. Little Green House on K Street United States Congress, biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Edwin Denby at The Political Graveyard The Denby Family Papers at The Library of Congress
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Frederick W. Henninger
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Frederick William Pa Henninger was an American businessman and football player and coach. He played football for the University of Michigan from 1893 to 1896 and was the captain of the 1895 team that outscored their opponents by a score of 266 to 14. After receiving his degree, he was an assistant football coach at Michigan from 1897 to 1899 and 1902 and he worked as an engineer for the Detroit United Railway and later had a successful career as a manufacturer in Detroit, Michigan. Henninger was born in Cleveland, Ohio and educated in that public schools. He attended Ann Arbor High School for his preparatory studies. He enrolled at the University of Michigan where he played football from 1893 to 1896 and he was captain of the 1895 Michigan team that compiled an 8–1 record, won seven of their games by shutouts, and outscored their opponents by a combined score of 266 to 14. The sole loss of the 1895 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. A newspaper profile of Henninger in November 1895 said, The University of Michigan team, Henninger is a veteran of last years eleven, is 5 feet 10 inches tall and weighs 180 pounds. He is an excellent field general, plays right guard and is said to be the strongest man on the team, Henninger studied electrical engineering at Michigan and received his bachelors degree in 1897. After graduating, Henninger served as an assistant football coach at Michigan from 1897 to 1899 and he also returned in 1902 as an assistant coach under Fielding H. Yost. In November 1902, The Michigan Alumnus chose an All-Michigan Team consisting of the greatest football players ever to play for the Michigan Wolverines football team, Henninger was selected as the right tackle on the All-Michigan team. For years Pa Henninger was a mainstay of the Michigan team, a figure on every western gridiron. Henninger was also selected by the student magazine, The Inlander, after graduating from Michigan, Henninger worked for the Detroit United Railway for six years from 1897 to 1903. He was in charge of the Motor Testing Department from 1897 to 1898, was chief draftsman in 1898. He retired from the railway in 1903 to go into business for himself, at the time of his retirement from the railway, the 45 motor inspectors of the Detroit United Railway gave a trolley party in his honor. The party rode the trolley to Birmingham, Michigan where supper was partaken at the Colonial Hotel, the inspectors presented Henninger with a solid diamond ring in a heavy gold setting with the Masonic emblem enameled on one side and the Elks emblem on the other side. After leaving the Detroit Urban Railway, Henninger formed his own company which he called the Bellevue Manufacturing Company in 1903 with offices at 343 Bellevue Avenue in Detroit and he was also an inventor of a machine called a wire insulating machine. He also served as the treasurer and eventually president of the Sheet Steel Stamping Company, vice president of Riverbank Corporation, at the time of the 1910 United States Census, he was living in Detroit, and his occupation was listed as the manager of a machine factory
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Allen Steckle
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Steckle was an American football player and coach. Steckle was selected as an All-American in 1898 and achieved fame in 1903 when his Nevada Sagebrush team, drawn from a school with 80 students, Steckle was born in July 1872 at Freeport, Michigan. Steckle, was born in Waterloo Township, Ontario, Canada, in 1842 and his mother, Sarah Steckle, was also a native of Waterloo Township. His parents were married in December 1867 in Waterloo County, Ontario, at the time of the 1880 United States Census, Steckle was residing with his parents and six siblings in Campbell Township, Michigan. Steckle played football for the University of Michigan from 1897 to 1899 and was captain of the 1899 team, in 1898, Steckle was among the first western players to be named to an All-American team after being selected by Walter Camp as his second-team tackle. He helped Michigan win its first Western Conference championship in 1898 and was selected as the best tackle in the West, one newspaper wrote that he was as good a defensive player as one will find anywhere. From 1901 to 1903, Steckle served as the football coach at the University of Nevada. In 1903, he was appointed to the position as the universitys Physical Director. In his three seasons as the coach, he compiled a 6–9–2 record. When Steckles Nevada Sagebrush team defeated the University of California in 1903, the entire front page of the Daily Nevada State Journal was given to coverage of the game, and the banner headline read, CALIFORNIAS PROUD COLORS LOWERED BY THE DOUGHTY ELEVEN FROM SAGEBRUSHDOM. He made of them the peers of the flower of the California universities, Steckles star players at Nevada from 1901 to 1903 were his younger brother Ivan X. Steckle, who played halfback, and Abe Steckle, who played tackle. Ivan Steckle was reportedly the hero of all Nevada during the season of 1903. Ivan left Nevada after the 1903 season to follow his brother to the University of Michigan Medical School. Ivan died from fever in 1909, and Steckle accompanied his brothers body to the familys old home in Freeport. In 1919, a Nevada newspaper rated Steckle as the best football coach Nevada ever had and described his accomplishments as follows and he was rated at that time as one of the best coaches in the West. Steckle was also remembered at Nevada for his ability to instill college spirit in the student body. In 1919, a Nevada newspaper noted that there was more enthusiasm displayed in college athletics while he was coach than there has been in all the years since he left, as a medical doctor and athletic coach, Steckle was also known for his belief in physical conditioning. He was known to require every athlete to be in physical condition before playing in any intercollegiate or big game
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George Greenleaf
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George Franklin Greenleaf, Jr. was an American football player and medical doctor. A native of Brazil, Indiana, Greenleaf was the son of George F. Greenleaf, Sr. and he played college football at the University of Michigan and was the quarterback of the 1893 and 1894 Michigan Wolverines football teams. He played at the end position on the 1895 and 1896 teams and he graduated from Michigans Department of Medicine and Surgery, and became a medical doctor practicing in Indiana and Illinois. In 1899, he was the coach of the Miami University football team. In February 1914, he married Estella Fuquay at Evansville, Indiana, in his later years, he practiced medicine at 561 Diversity Parkway and lived at 2745 Pine Grove Avenue in Chicago. In May 1936, he died of hypertension and cerebral hemorrhage at his Chicago apartment
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James Baird (civil engineer)
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James Baird was an American civil engineer, football player and coach. He played football for the University of Michigan from 1892 to 1895 and was captain of the 1894 team and he was also an assistant football coach at Michigan from 1897 to 1898. He worked for the George A. Fuller Co. for 23 years and he later formed his own construction company called the James Baird Company. Baird directed the construction of important buildings, including the Flatiron Building, Lincoln Memorial, Arlington Memorial Amphitheater. Baird was born in Vanceburg, Kentucky and attended schools in Chicago, Illinois and Ann Arbor. His father, Lyman Beecher Baird, was an Ohio native who worked as a farmer, in the 1880 United States Census, Lyman Baird was identified as a grocer in Vanceburg. He also operated a store in Vanceburg that burned in the 1880s. His mother was Frances Amelia Baird, and he had an older brother Charles A. Baird and he enrolled at the University of Michigan where he played quarterback for the football team from 1892 to 1895. Baird played quarterback for the 1895 Michigan team that compiled an 8–1 record, won seven of their games by shutouts, the sole loss of the 1895 season was a 4–0 setback against the Harvard Crimson, then one of the three great football powers. Michigan finished the season with a 12–0 win over Western rival, undefeated against Western opponents, the 1895 Wolverines laid claim to the Western football championship. At the end of the 1895 season, one Chicago newspaper, Baird studied civil engineering at Michigan and received his bachelors degree in 1896. Bairds brother Charles A. Baird was the manager of the 1894 and 1895 football teams at Michigan, after graduating, Baird served as an assistant football coach at Michigan from 1897 to 1898, including the 1898 Michigan team that won the schools first Western Conference championship. As a coach he has been a wonderful success, no one who knows his record as a captain can doubt that he is a worker of miracles to whose power Michigans wonderful improvement is due. This year he left his business to rush back at the last moment to lick the team into shape for a victory, after graduating from Michigan, Baird had a successful career in the construction industry. He started as a timekeeper for the Guaranty Construction Co. of Chicago and then as an engineer for Moulton-Starrett Co. of Columbus, Ohio, and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In 1899, Baird began a 23-year association with the George A. Fuller Co. a leading builder of skyscrapers, Baird began working for the Fuller Company in New York City and directed the erection of the Flatiron Building, the first steel-frame skyscraper in New York City. He moved to Boston in 1902 as the general superintendent. He was transferred to Washington, D. C. in 1904 as a district manager and he rose through the ranks of the company to become vice president in 1910 and president in May 1922
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George Jewett
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George Henry Jewett II was an American athlete who became the first African-American football player at both the University of Michigan and Northwestern University, and in the Big Ten Conference. He played for the Michigan Wolverines as a fullback, halfback, Jewett grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan, the son of a successful blacksmith. At the time of the 1870 United States Census, he was listed as being one month old and his father was George Jewett, a blacksmith born in Kentucky in approximately 1845, and his mother was Letty Jewett, born in Michigan in approximately 1848. He had a sister, Mary, born in approximately 1868. The family was residing in Ann Arbor at the time of both the 1870 and 1880 Censuses, Jewett attended Ann Arbor High School where he was the class valedictorian in 1889. In high school, he was the captain of the debate and he was also the fastest sprinter in the Midwest, having won the Amateur Athletic Union 100-yard dash competition, and was fluent in German, Italian and French. Jewett attended the University of Michigan from 1890 to 1893, where he became the first African American in the history to letter in football. In 1890, Jewett was the fullback for the Michigan team that went 4-1. In 1892, Jewett was the halfback on a Michigan team that beat Amos Alonzo Staggs University of Chicago team, went 7-5. At Michigan, he was the leading rusher, scorer and kicker, Jewett was regarded as one of the greatest stars in Michigan football in the pre-Fielding H. Yost era. In addition to playing as fullback and halfback, Jewett was also the field goal kicker and has been called the Afro-American phenomenon of the University of Michigan. Oberlin College coach John Heisman described Jewett as a superior athlete, in 1892, Jewett played a central role in a memorable game against an Oberlin College team coached by John Heisman. Michigan met Oberlin at Ann Arbor in November 1892, Jewett scored four touchdowns in the game, including an unopposed 45-yard touchdown run after Oberlin thought time had been called. After Oberlin went ahead, 12-6, Jewett scored his touchdown on a run from 25 yards out. Oberlin scored again to make it 18-10, a few minutes later, Jewett ran to within a foot of the goal line, and the umpire ruled that Jewett had scored a touchdown. Jewett completed the kick after touchdown and the score was 18-16, Jewett also made a touchdown-saving tackle in the Oberlin game, catching up with Charles Savage from behind at the five yard line after a 90-yard run. After Oberlin scored to go ahead 24-22, the announced that time had run out. The umpire ruled that four minutes remained on the clock owing to timeouts that Oberlins timekeeper had not recorded
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Horace Dyer
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Horace Levi Dyer was an American football player and attorney. He played at the position for the 1894 Michigan Wolverines football team and was an attorney assigned to prosecute complex fraud cases from the 1900s to the 1920s. Dyer was born in Louisiana, Missouri, in 1873, the son of David Patterson Dyer and he received his preparatory education at the Stoddard School, Clarks Academy, and the Smith Academy, all in St. Louis, Missouri. Dyer enrolled at the University of Michigan in 1890 and played as a halfback for the 1894 Michigan Wolverines football team and he helped lead the team to a 9-1-1 record, the best record in the history of the Michigan football team to that date. He was five feet, seven inches tall, and weighed 167 pounds as a football player, after receiving his LL. B. degree from Michigan in 1895, Dyer returned to St. Louis where he practiced law. He was an assistant city attorney from 1899 to 1902 and an Assistant U. S. Attorney starting in 1902, Dyer developed a reputation for prosecuting significant fraud cases and was often dispatched by the U. S. Department of Justice as a special prosecutor in such cases. Dyers significant cases include the following, In 1905, Dyer was assigned to prosecute Joseph R. Burton, Dyer secured a conviction of Burton in the second trial of the matter. In 1927, the U. S. Department of Justice sent Dyer to Tampa, Florida, to prosecute companies, Dyer died in July 1928 during the prosecution of Clarence Saunders in the Piggly Wiggly case. Following Dyers death, an order from Washington, D. C. dismissed the case, Burton married Bettie Edgar in 1899, and she died in 1901. He married Betty Wilcox in 1905, and they had two sons, David and John, in a draft registration card completed at the time of World War I, Dyer stated that he was a lawyer with an office in the Central National Bank Building in St. Louis. At the time of the 1920 United States Census, he was living in St. Louis with his wife and two sons, and was employed as an attorney
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