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Nebraska Cornhuskers football
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The Nebraska Cornhuskers football team represents the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Among the 128 Division I-A teams, Nebraska is one of ten programs to win 800 or more games. Nebraska has more victories against Power Five opponents than any program, as well as the third most victories all-time, behind only Michigan. Nebraska also has the most wins and the highest winning percentage of any program over the last 50 years, ESPN ranks two undefeated Nebraska squads, the 1971 team and the 1995 team, among the top three teams in college football history. Nebraska claims 46 conference championships and five championships,1970,1971,1994,1995. The titles in the 1990s marked the first time that a team won three championships in four seasons since the Notre Dame Fighting Irish in 1946–1949. Also, the 2011–2012 Alabama Crimson Tide, the 1994–1995 Nebraska Cornhuskers, Nebraska also has had five undefeated seasons in which they were not the national champions,1902,1903,1913,1914, and 1915. Between 1912 and 1916, a 34-game unbeaten streak was recorded by head coach Ewald O. Stiehm, famous Cornhuskers include Heisman Trophy winners Johnny Rodgers, Mike Rozier, and Eric Crouch. Rodgers was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame and for the new millennium he was voted the teams Player of the Century, Rozier was likewise inducted into the hall in 2006. Bible, Bob Devaney, Biff Jones, Tom Osborne, Eddie Robbie Robinson, on June 11,2010, Nebraska ended the universitys affiliation with the Big 12 Conference and joined the Big Ten Conference beginning in the 2011 season. The Huskers team began its history as the Old Gold Knights, the name Cornhuskers first appeared in the school newspaper as We Have Met The Cornhuskers And They Are Ours referring to a 20–18 upset victory over Iowa in 1893. The term Cornhuskers was referring to Iowa in that instance, in 1899, Cy Sherman was the first person to refer to the Nebraska football team as the Cornhuskers and the team has used that name since 1900. Nebraska football began play in 1890 with a 10–0 victory over the Omaha YMCA on Thanksgiving Day, the football program started strong and experienced success from the very beginning, going twenty-eight years straight with only a single losing season. Until the 1–7–1 losing season in 1899 in coach A. Edwin Branchs only year at the helm, george Flippin was the first African-American athlete at Nebraska and only the fifth black athlete at a predominantly white university. Because of Flippins presence on the roster, Missouri refused to play a game with Nebraska at Omaha in 1892. The result was a 1–0 forfeit, Nebraskas 4th coach, Frank Crawford was the first paid head football coach at Nebraska. Eddie Robbie Robinson and Fielding H. Yost, the sixth and seventh head coaches, were the earliest Nebraska coaches to eventually be inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame. Booth was the programs 9th leader, and had the second-best career record spanning more than a year during this era and his 1902 team went undefeated, untied and unscored upon
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Walter C. Booth
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Walter Cowles Bummy Booth was an American football coach. He served as the football coach at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln from 1900 to 1905. Booth led Nebraska to a perfect, shutout season in 1902 and his teams achieved the longest winning streak in Nebraska football history with 27 victories including exhibition games, and the second longest with 24 victories excluding exhibition games. His streak remained unbroken until the 1995 Nebraska team would extend the stream to 26 games, Booth turned Nebraska into an independent football powerhouse in the Midwest after coming off its first losing season in 1899. Alonzo Edwin Branch had left the program in 1899 making a spot for Booth to take over, the 1900 Nebraska football team would be the first to be officially called the Cornhuskers and had a record of 6–1–1, not counting two exhibition games. Every game that year was a shutout until the last game of the season with a 12–20 loss to Minnesota. The 1901 Nebraska football team out and had a 6–2 record with several shutouts, including a 51–0 game against rival Missouri. The program had Nebraskas best season ever when in 1902 the team went undefeated, untied and unscored upon for a perfect 9–0 record, the team was led by Johnny Bender and Charles Borg and had a 12-game winning streak. The 1903 Nebraska season would continue its winning streak with a 10–0, the winning streak was now 22 games. The 1904 Nebraska Cornhuskers team would win their first two games and one game before losing to Colorado to end a 24-game winning streak,27 including exhibition games. This streak remained a record until the 1994 Nebraska Cornhuskers team have a 26-game winning streak before losing to Arizona State in 1996. The season would end with a 7-3 record, not counting two victory exhibition games), booths final season was in 1905 with an 8–2 record, not counting one exhibition victory. Booths final record was 46–8–1 for a.845 winning percentage, exhibition games are not counted Walter C. Booth at the College Football Data Warehouse
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1901 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team
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The 1901 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team was the representative of the University of Nebraska in the 1901 college football season. The team was coached by Walter C, bummy Booth and played their home games at Antelope Field in Lincoln, Nebraska. Nebraska was coming off one of its best ever seasons with head coach Booth. The Cornhuskers continued their unbeaten streak against Lincoln High School in this preseason exhibition game, Nebraska barely escaped from Kirksville with a win, managing only one touchdown against the medical students from Missouri. The Cornhuskers utilized their larger size to control Kirksville, twice preventing scores on two significant attempts. This was the time these teams would meet. After a four-year break, Doane arrived in Lincoln to resume the oldest active series between the Cornhuskers and its opponents, Nebraska traveled to Minneapolis in an attempt to avenge their sole loss from the previous season, and again riding high on a streak of shutout wins. It was not to be, however, as the dominant Golden Gophers completely shut down the Cornhuskers and sent them home with no points, Nebraska bounced right back from the thrashing in Minneapolis by completely shutting down Iowa State 17-0. The Cyclones accumulated only 75 yards and three first downs on the day, the success of the Cornhuskers was significant when taking into account that almost half of the Nebraska linemen were sidelined with injuries from the previous game. Nebraska improved to 4-2 over Iowa State, Nebraska met the Wisconsin Badgers for the first time, traveling to Milwaukee to face off with another northern squad. It was Nebraskas second painful defeat from a team of the year. Still, coach Booth had praise for his players, stating that Nebraska played 100% better than in the defeat by Minnesota. Nebraska met Missouri on neutral ground in Omaha, on the field where the Bugeaters of old thrice defeated the Omaha YMCA, Nebraska pulled up to match Kansas and even the series at 5-5. Having defeated one team from Lawrence, Kansas two weeks prior, Nebraska welcomed a new team to Nebraska also hailing from Lawrence, the squad from the Haskell Institute. At that time, Haskell was a school but not yet a college. Perhaps Nebraska was overconfident, or the Haskell team performed admirably, after regrouping for the second half, Nebraska managed to shut Haskell down and score 18 points of their own to come up with the season-closing win. Coach Booth finished his season with a 6-2-0 record, dropping his Nebraska career record to 12-3-1
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Lincoln, Nebraska
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Lincoln is the capital of the U. S. state of Nebraska and the county seat of Lancaster County. The city covers 92.81 square miles with a population of 277,348 in 2015 and it is the second-most populous city in Nebraska and the 72nd-largest in the United States. The statistical area is home to 345,478 people, making it the 105th-largest combined statistical area in the United States, the city was founded in 1856 as the village of Lancaster on the wild salt marshes of what was to become Lancaster County. In 1867, the village of Lancaster became Nebraskas state capital and was renamed Lincoln, bertram G. Goodhue designed state capitol building was completed in 1932 and is the second tallest capitol in the United States. As the city is the seat of government for the state of Nebraska, the state, the University of Nebraska was founded in Lincoln in 1867. The university is the largest in Nebraska with 25,006 students enrolled and is the citys third-largest employer, other primary employers fall within the service and manufacturing industries, including a growing high-tech sector. The region makes up a part of what is known as the greater Midwest Silicon Prairie, designated as a refugee-friendly city by the U. S. Department of State in the 1970s, the city was the twelfth-largest resettlement site per capita in the United States by 2000. Refugee Vietnamese, Karen, Sudanese, and Yazidi people have resettled in the city. Lincoln Public Schools during the year of 2016–17 provided support for approximately 3,200 students from 118 countries. Prior to the westward of settlers, the prairie was covered with buffalo grass. Plains Indians, descendants of peoples who occupied the area for thousands of years, lived in. The Pawnee, which included four tribes, lived in villages along the Platte River, an occasional buffalo could still be seen in the plat of Lincoln in the 1860s. Lincoln was founded in 1856 as the village of Lancaster and became the county seat of the newly created Lancaster County in 1859, the village was sited on the east bank of Salt Creek. The first settlers were attracted to the due to the abundance of salt. Once J. Sterling Morton developed his salt mines in Kansas, Captain W. T. Donovan, a former steamer captain, and his family settled on Salt Creek in 1856. In the fall of 1859, the settlers met to form a county. A caucus was formed and the committee, which included Captain Donovan, after the passage of the 1862 Homestead Act, homesteaders began to inhabit the area. The first plat was dated August 6,1864, by the close of 1868, Lancaster had a population of approximately 500 people
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Cy Sherman
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Charles Sumner Cy Sherman was an American journalist and is known as the father of the Cornhuskers after giving the Nebraska Cornhuskers football team the name Cornhuskers in 1899. At his suggestion in 1936, Associated Press sports editor Alan J. Gould created the first AP Poll for ranking college football teams, at his death he was called by the Star the Dean of American Sportswriters. Charles Sumner Sherman was born in Villisca, Iowa on March 10,1871 to Charles Wheelan Sherman and his father was a civil war veteran and newspaper publisher and editor. He was born in Richland County, Ohio on June 6,1841 and his mother was born in Marion County, Iowa on August 26,1842, and died in Plattsmouth, Nebraska on May 31,1900. Sherman first attended schools in Glenwood, Iowa, before his family moved to Plattsmouth, in Plattsmouth, his father was the publisher of the Plattsmouth Tribune, and Sherman spent time in its shop in where he learned printing. Sherman married Nancy Ada Moore in Davenport, Iowa on August 16,1893, Nancy was born in Davenport on October 31,1870. During the 1890 through 1899 seasons, the Huskers had been called multiple names including Treeplanters, Rattlesnake Boys, Antelopes, Old Gold Knights, the school was changing its school colors to scarlet and cream in 1892 and the Old Gold Knights no longer made sense. Sherman thought the name Bugeaters was unglamorous and was tired of referring to the Nebraska teams with that name, Sherman was writing for the Nebraska State Journal starting in about 1898, and in 1899 was the first to use the name Cornhuskers to refer to Nebraska. He did so frequently in his columns and University journalism professor Alvin Watkins Jr. made a push for its adoption on campus and it was a successful effort and Cornhuskers would become the only used name for the team starting in 1900. The student yearbook changed its name to the “Cornhusker” in 1907, when the Nebraska legislature passed a bill naming Nebraska the Cornhusker State in 1946, Sherman received the pen used to sign the bill. In August 1913, Sherman moved to Red Lodge, Montana where he became editor and part owner of the Red Lodge Picket, Sherman played a role in advocating Stechers career, which increased the wrestlers prominence. Later in the year, Sherman was credited with discovering Earl Caddock from Anita, Sherman refereed a match between Caddock and Stecher in April 1917 in Omaha. Caddock won the match, and Shermans work was controversial when he disallowed a fall when Caddock had nearly pinned Stecher but had his feet off the mat. Later that year Sherman organized athletic shows in Lincoln to raise money to support Linolns Western Baseball League team, at one show Fred Fulton boxed, while Caddock wrestled at the other. Boxers Mike and Tommy Gibbons were also part of the affair, in 1935, AP sports editor Alan J. Gould declared a three way tie for national champion in football between Minnesota, Princeton, and Southern Methodist. Minnesota fans protested, and a number of Goulds colleagues led by Sherman suggested he create a poll of sports editors instead of using his own list. As an writer, Shemans column in the Star was for a time called Brass Tacks and he was known as an advocate for sportsmanship and opposed commercialization and excess recruiting in the college game. As early as the 1910s, Sherman was involved in minor baseball in Lincoln
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Lincoln High School (Lincoln, Nebraska)
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Lincoln High School is a public secondary school located in Lincoln, Nebraska, United States, and is part of the Lincoln Public Schools school district. More than 40,000 students have graduated from Lincoln High in its 143-year history, the school colors are red and black, and the mascot is the Links. Lincoln High School was founded in 1871 and is the oldest of the six high schools in the city of Lincoln. The present building was opened in 1915 with major additions completed in 1927,1957,1985 and 1996 and it is accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools and has the AA accreditation rating of the Nebraska State Board of Education. In 1984 it was named a Recognized School of Excellence by the U. S. Department of Education, Lincoln High School is now participating in the International Baccalaureate Program, one of only three high schools in Nebraska involved in the program. The others are Millard North High School and Omaha Central High School, the student body is made up of 55% Caucasian students, 15% African-American, 10% Asian-American, 13% Hispanic-American, and 2% Native-American. LHS has approximately 200 students in ELL classes, over 30 different languages are spoken as first languages to students. The largest group speak Spanish and the four largest groups speak Arabic and Kurdish, Vietnamese. Other languages spoken are Russian, Ukrainian, Nuer, Bosnian, Pashtu, Dinka, Cambodian, Filipino, Chinese, Lincoln High School offers over 200 courses in twelve different departments to its 1,750 students, operating on a traditional 7-period day schedule. It has 150 certified staff members and 90 support staff members who help with the operation of the each day. Lincoln High Schools baseball program is headed by coach Daniel Beckmann, JV Jon Beiermann, the baseball program won state championships in 1951,1952,1954,1955,1956 and 1963 and last had measurable success under coach Sam Sharpe from 1991-1992. Lincoln High Schools wrestling program is headed by coach Andy Genrich, Lincoln High last won a state championship in 1992 and has had 29 individual state champions. In 2009, the program had success in qualifying three wrestlers for state all by winning 1st place at the district meet. Dick Cavett – entertainer and author Sandy Dennis – Academy Award-winning actress Mike Fultz – drafted 32nd overall in the 1977 NFL Draft by the New Orleans Saints Melissa Harrington – a. k. a. Melissa Midwest, pornographic actress Dixie Kiefer – U. S. Navy commodore, served in both world wars Les Mann – former MLB player for the Boston Braves, Chicago Cubs, St
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Drake Bulldogs football
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The Drake Bulldogs football program represents Drake University in college football at the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision level. Drake began competing in football in 1893. The 1922 Drake Bulldogs football team is considered by many to be the greatest in Drake history and is, to date, Drake capped the historic season with a 48–6 triumph over Mississippi State on November 25,1922. They received votes as the one team in the College Football Researchers Association poll and were invited to the White House for their accomplishments. The Bulldogs were coached by legend Ossie Solem, during the 1926 Homecoming activities, Babe Ruth visited and suited up for a Drake scrimmage. Head coach Ossie Solem extended the invitation stating We finally inquired had he ever indulged in the dirt eating pastime known as football, the answer was sort of a woeful No. It was evident that the Big Bimbo had missed something in his days. Ruth scored a 20-yard touchdown in the mock scrimmage, while it was not the official Rose Bowl Game, Drake was the first Iowa school to play in the Rose Bowl Stadium. The Bulldogs defeated UCLA 25–6 in front of a capacity crowd of 40,000 on November 28,1927. At the time, UCLA played major games at the Rose Bowl Stadium, the Bruins did not officially move on a permanent basis to the Rose Bowl Stadium until 1982. The game was highlighted as one of the NCAA Football Thanksgiving Special Games that year, following the 1931 season head coach Ossie Solem schedule a game in Honolulu, Hawaii in which the bulldogs squared off against Hawaii. Solem frustrated by the lack of rewards, called the trip a reward for his teams fourth straight Missouri Valley Conference championship. In a close encounter at Honolulu Stadium on December 19,1931, the game was the first by an Iowa school in the state of Hawaii. It was also the last game for Solem as Bulldog coach and he left the next season taking the head football coach vacancy at Iowa. Drake was the first school of its size to install lights, on October 6,1928, the Bulldogs defeated Simpson College 41–6 in the first night game at Drake Stadium. In 1951, Johnny Bright was named a First Team College Football All-American and he was invited to the Heisman Trophy festivities and finished fifth in the voting. In 1969, Bright was named Drake Universitys greatest football player of all time, in February 2006, the football field at Drake Stadium, in Des Moines, Iowa, was named in his honor. In November 2006, Bright was voted one of the CFLs Top 50 players of the modern era by Canadian sports network TSN
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Kansas City, Missouri
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Kansas City is the largest city in Missouri and the sixth largest city in the Midwest. According to the U. S. Census Bureau, the city had an population of 475,378 in 2015. It is the city of the Kansas City metropolitan area. Kansas City was founded in the 1830s as a Missouri River port at its confluence with the Kansas River coming in from the west, on June 1,1850 the town of Kansas was incorporated, shortly after came the establishment of the Kansas Territory. Confusion between the two ensued and the name Kansas City was assigned to them soon thereafter. Most of the city lies within Jackson County, but portions spill into Clay, Cass, along with Independence, it serves as one of the two county seats for Jackson County. Major suburbs include the Missouri cities of Independence and Lees Summit and the Kansas cities of Overland Park, Olathe, and Kansas City. The city is composed of neighborhoods, including the River Market District in the north, the 18th and Vine District in the east. Kansas City is also known for its cuisine, its craft breweries, Kansas City, Missouri was officially incorporated as a town on June 1,1850, and as a city on March 28,1853. The territory straddling the border between Missouri and Kansas at the confluence of the Kansas and Missouri rivers was considered a place to build settlements. The Antioch Christian Church, Dr. James Compton House, the first documented European visitor to Kansas City was Étienne de Veniard, Sieur de Bourgmont, who was also the first European to explore the lower Missouri River. Criticized for his response to the Native American attack on Fort Détroit, Bourgmont lived with a Native American wife in a village about 90 miles east near Brunswick, Missouri, where he illegally traded furs. In the documents, he describes the junction of the Grande Riv des Cansez and Missouri River, French cartographer Guillaume Delisle used the descriptions to make the areas first reasonably accurate map. The Spanish took over the region in the Treaty of Paris in 1763, the French continued their fur trade under Spanish license. After the 1804 Louisiana Purchase, Lewis and Clark visited the confluence of the Kansas and Missouri rivers, in 1831, a group of Mormons from New York settled in what would become the city. They built the first school within Kansas Citys current boundaries, but were forced out by mob violence in 1833, in 1833 John McCoy established West Port along the Santa Fe Trail,3 miles away from the river. In 1834 McCoy established Westport Landing on a bend in the Missouri to serve as a point for West Port. Soon after, the Kansas Town Company, a group of investors, began to settle the area, in 1850, the landing area was incorporated as the Town of Kansas
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Tarkio College
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Tarkio College was a college that operated in Tarkio, Missouri from 1883 to 1992. The institution was supported by the United Presbyterian Church in the United States of America and it was closed after filing for bankruptcy protection in 1991 and then was reopened in 2012 as a continuing education institution for professionals. Samuel C. Marshall was the first president and William E. Walker served as the last president, the Tarkio College mascot was the owl. The school colors were purple and white, and the motto, often attributed to its founder, gentleman farmer David Rankin, was Set Fire. Tarkio College won the first NAIA Division I Mens basketball championship in 1940, Tarkio Colleges s softball team appeared in one Womens College World Series in 1976. Brewer and Shipley named their most famous album Tarkio after this college in 1970, one of the schools most famous structures was the Mule Barn Theatre, an octagon-shaped structure used originally to house mules. It was on the National Register of Historic Places but was destroyed in a 1989 fire, after Tarkio College closed, the library books were purchased by and moved to Lancaster Bible College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. There were also attempts to find alternative uses for the property, including early discussions about the possible founding of a new institution. Initially, Youth Services International, Inc. operated Tarkio Academy, north Central Missouri College and Linn State College in Linn, Missouri then announced an exploration of options for a new jointly operated technical college in early 2006. This was soon followed by reports that the property would become the Midwest Institute of Energy, the institute missed its planned opening of 2009. It does not provide academic credits at this time, education and training will be available at locations throughout the United States as traditional seminars, online classes, interactive webinars—and also at the home campus in Tarkio, MO. The Alumni Association has rented the building on the Tarkio campus, Rankin Hall. Robert A. Hughes, Tarkio College Class of 1971, is the current president of the reorganized college. Tarkio College alumnus Wallace Hume Carothers obtained his degree at Tarkio College. He later taught at Harvard University and is credited with the discovery of the artificial polymers nylon, another chemist, Carl Djerassi, attended Tarkio College shortly after his arrival in the U. S. as a refugee from Nazi-controlled Vienna. He completed his education at Kenyon College, then got his PhD from the University of Wisconsin. Anthropologist Edgar Lee Hewett received his degree in pedagogy from Tarkio College and he is remembered for helping to bring about the Antiquities Act that enabled preservation of archaeological sites as United States national monuments. He was also the first president of the New Mexico Normal School, US Senator and 2016 presidential candidate Marco Rubio attended the college for one year on a football scholarship before moving on to Santa Fe College in Florida
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Tarkio, Missouri
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Tarkio is a city in Tarkio Township, Atchison County, Missouri, United States. The population was 1,583 at the 2010 census and it was platted in 1880 and incorporated in 1881. The name Tarkio is from a Native American word meaning place where walnuts grow, historically, the economy of the city was based on agriculture and its status as a college town. Tarkio was founded by Charles E. Perkins in 1880, by 1900, the U. S. Census shows 2,845 persons living in Tarkio. According to the 1910,1920, and 1930 census, the number of residents held steady for the next 30 years. One of the communitys most famous landmarks was the Tarkio Mule Barn and it was converted to the Tarkio Mule Barn Theatre which was used by Tarkio College. It was on the National Register of Historic Places, but the building was destroyed in a 1989 fire, Rankin Hall and the Walnut Inn are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Tarkio is located at 40°26′28″N 95°22′58″W, according to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 1.39 square miles, all land. As of the census of 2010, there were 1,583 people,703 households, the population density was 1,138.8 inhabitants per square mile. There were 844 housing units at a density of 607.2 per square mile. The racial makeup of the city was 97. 9% White,0. 8% African American,0. 4% Native American,0. 4% Asian,0. 1% from other races, hispanic or Latino of any race were 1. 0% of the population. 35. 4% of all households were made up of individuals and 17. 1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older, the average household size was 2.19 and the average family size was 2.83. The median age in the city was 45.9 years. 20. 6% of residents were under the age of 18,6. 9% were between the ages of 18 and 24, 21% were from 25 to 44,29. 1% were from 45 to 64, and 22. 3% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the city was 48. 3% male and 51. 7% female, as of the census of 2000, there were 1,935 people,749 households, and 468 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,397.9 people per square mile, there were 843 housing units at an average density of 609. 0/sq mi. The racial makeup of the city was 92. 45% White,6. 30% African American,0. 26% Native American,0. 26% Asian,0. 36% from other races, hispanic or Latino of any race were 0. 78% of the population. 33. 6% of all households were made up of individuals and 17. 9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older, the average household size was 2.26 and the average family size was 2.87
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Columbia, Missouri
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Columbia /kəˈlʌmbiə/ is a city in the U. S. state of Missouri and the county seat of Boone County. Founded in 1818, it is home to the University of Missouri and is the city of the Columbia Metropolitan Area. It is Missouris fourth most-populous city, with a population of 119,108 in 2015. As a midwestern town, the city has a reputation for progressive politics, public art. At the center of Downtown is 8th Street, also known as the Avenue of the Columns, which connects Francis Quadrangle and Jesse Hall to the Boone County Courthouse, originally an agricultural town, the cultivation of the mind is Columbias chief economic concern today. Never a major center of manufacturing, the city depends on healthcare, insurance. Several companies, such as Shelter Insurance, Carfax, and Slackers CDs, cultural institutions include the State Historical Society of Missouri, the Museum of Art and Archaeology, and the annual True/False Film Festival. The Missouri Tigers, the only major college athletic program, play football at Faurot Field. The city is built upon the hills and rolling prairies of Mid-Missouri, near the Missouri River valley. Limestone forms bluffs and glades while rain carves caves and springs which water the Hinkson, Roche Perche, surrounding the city, Rock Bridge Memorial State Park, Mark Twain National Forest, and Big Muddy National Fish and Wildlife Refuge all form a greenbelt preserving sensitive and rare environments. The first humans were hunters who entered the area at least twelve thousand years ago. Later, woodland tribes lived in villages along waterways and built mounds in high places, the Osage and Missouria nations were expelled by the exploration of French traders and the rapid settlement of American pioneers. German, Irish, and other European immigrants soon joined, the modern populace is unusually diverse, over eight percent foreign-born. While White and Black remain the largest ethnicities, Asians are now the third-largest group, todays Columbians are remarkably highly educated and culturally midwestern, though traces of their Southern past remain. The city has called the Athens of Missouri for its classic beauty and educational emphasis. The Columbia area was part of the Mississippian culture and home to the Mound Builders. When European explorers arrived, the area was populated by the Osage, in 1678, La Salle claimed all of Missouri for France. The Lewis and Clark Expedition passed by the area on the Missouri River in early June 1804, in 1806, two sons of Daniel Boone established a salt lick 40 miles northwest of Columbia
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Grinnell College
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Grinnell College is a private liberal arts college in Grinnell, Iowa, U. S. known for its rigorous academics and tradition of social responsibility. It was founded in 1846, when a group of New England Congregationalists established the Trustees of Iowa College, in 1843, eleven Congregational ministers, all of whom trained at Andover Theological Seminary in Massachusetts, set out to proselytize on the frontier. Each man pledged to gather a church and together the group or band would seek to establish a college, when the group arrived in Iowa later that year, each selected a different town in which to establish a congregation. In 1846, they collectively established Iowa College in Davenport, a few months later, Iowa joined the Union. The first 25 years of Grinnells history saw a change in name, however, Greeley vehemently denied ever saying this to Grinnell, or to anyone. The name of the corporation The Trustees of Iowa College remained, in its early years, the College experienced setbacks. Although two students received bachelor of arts degrees in 1854, within 10 years the Civil War had claimed most of Grinnells students, in 1882, Grinnell College was struck by a tornado — then called a cyclone, after which the college yearbook was named. The storm devastated the campus and destroyed both College buildings, rebuilding began immediately, and the determination to expand wasnt limited to architecture, the curriculum was again extended to include departments in political science and modern languages. Grinnell became known as the center of the Social Gospel reform movement, as Robert Handy writes and its leading figures were Professor George D. Herron and President George A. Gates. Other firsts pointed to the side of college life, the first intercollegiate football and baseball games west of the Mississippi were played in Grinnell. Concern with social issues, educational innovation, and individual expression continue to shape Grinnell, as an example, the school’s 5th year travel-service program, preceded the establishment of the Peace Corps by many years. Other recent innovations include first-year tutorials, cooperative programs, and programs in quantitative studies. In its 2016 edition of Americas Best Colleges, U. S. Grinnell College is located in the town of Grinnell, Iowa, about halfway between Des Moines and Iowa City. The main campus is bounded by 6th Avenue on the south, 10th Avenue on the north, East Street on the east, the 120-acre campus contains sixty-three buildings ranging in style from Collegiate Gothic to Bauhaus. Goodnow Hall and Mears Cottage are listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the residential part of campus is divided into three sections, North Campus, East Campus, and South Campus. North and South Campus dormitories are modeled explicitly after the colleges of Oxford. The East Campus dormitories were designed by William Rawn Associates and feature a modern design Upon completion East Campus was awarded LEED certification, the four East Campus dorms are made out of Iowa limestone which helped in securing the LEED certification. All three campuses feature dormitory buildings that are connected by a loggia, a signature of the college
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Lawrence, Kansas
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Lawrence is the sixth largest city in the state of Kansas and the county seat of Douglas County, Kansas. It is in northeastern Kansas next to Interstate 70, along the banks of the Kansas, as of the 2010 census, the citys population was 87,643. Lawrence is a town and the home to the University of Kansas. Lawrence was founded by the New England Emigrant Aid Company and was named for Amos Adams Lawrence who offered financial aid, Lawrence was central to the Bleeding Kansas era and was the site of the Wakarusa War, the sacking of Lawrence, and the Lawrence Massacre. Lawrence began as a center of Kansas politics, prior to Kansas Territory being opened to settlement in May 1854, most of Douglas County was part of the Shawnee Indian Reservation. The Oregon Trail followed the Kansas River through what would become Lawrence and Mount Oread was used as a landmark, dr. Charles Robinson and Charles Branscomb were sent by the New England Emigrant Aid Company to scout for a location for a city. They arrived in the vicinity of Lawrence in July 1854 and noted the beauty of the area, the original “pioneer party” left Massachusetts on July 17,1854 and consisted of 29 men. They arrived at the site Robinson and Branscomb selected on August 1, the second party arrived in Lawrence on September 9 after leaving near the end of August. The town was officially named Lawrence City on October 6, the main street of the town was named Massachusetts to commemorate the origins of the pioneer party. The first post office in Lawrence was established in January 1855, in March 1857, the Quincy School was started in the Emigrant Aid office before moving to the basement of the Unitarian Church in April. The Plymouth Congregational Church was started in September 1854 by Reverend S. Y, lum, a missionary sent to Kansas. Shortly after Lawrence’s founding, two newspapers were started, The Kansas Pioneer and the Herald of Freedom, both touted the Free State mission which caused problems from the people of Lecompton, then the pro-slavery headquarters, about ten miles northwest of Lawrence, and land squatters from Missouri. The Kansas Free State began in early January 1855, on November 21,1855, Charles Dow was shot and killed by Franklin Coleman in Hickory Point about fourteen miles south of Lawrence. Shortly after, an army of Missourians led by Douglas County Sheriff Samuel L. Jones entered Kansas to attack Lawrence. John Brown and James Lane had hustled Lawrence citizens into an army and erected barricades, a treaty was signed and the Missouri army reluctantly left. Harassment by Sheriff Jones and other Southern sympathizers continued unabated, the Herald of Freedom, the Kansas Free State and the Free State Hotel were indicted as “nuisances. ”On April 23,1856 Sheriff Jones was shot while trying to arrest free-state settlers. On May 21, Sheriff Jones and a posse of 800 Southern sympathizers converged on Lawrence, dr. Robinson’s house on Mount Oread was taken by the federal marshal as headquarters and the newspaper printing presses were damaged and thrown in the river. The Free State Hotel was also destroyed, despite the constant presence of impending war, Lawrence continued to grow
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Princeton University
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Princeton University is a private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The institution moved to Newark in 1747, then to the current site nine years later, Princeton provides undergraduate and graduate instruction in the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and engineering. The university has ties with the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton has the largest endowment per student in the United States. The university has graduated many notable alumni, two U. S. Presidents,12 U. S. Supreme Court Justices, and numerous living billionaires and foreign heads of state are all counted among Princetons alumni body. New Light Presbyterians founded the College of New Jersey in 1746 in order to train ministers, the college was the educational and religious capital of Scots-Irish America. In 1754, trustees of the College of New Jersey suggested that, in recognition of Governors interest, gov. Jonathan Belcher replied, What a name that would be. In 1756, the moved to Princeton, New Jersey. Its home in Princeton was Nassau Hall, named for the royal House of Orange-Nassau of William III of England, following the untimely deaths of Princetons first five presidents, John Witherspoon became president in 1768 and remained in that office until his death in 1794. During his presidency, Witherspoon shifted the focus from training ministers to preparing a new generation for leadership in the new American nation. To this end, he tightened academic standards and solicited investment in the college, in 1812, the eighth president the College of New Jersey, Ashbel Green, helped establish the Princeton Theological Seminary next door. The plan to extend the theological curriculum met with approval on the part of the authorities at the College of New Jersey. Today, Princeton University and Princeton Theological Seminary maintain separate institutions with ties that include such as cross-registration. Before the construction of Stanhope Hall in 1803, Nassau Hall was the sole building. The cornerstone of the building was laid on September 17,1754, during the summer of 1783, the Continental Congress met in Nassau Hall, making Princeton the countrys capital for four months. The class of 1879 donated twin lion sculptures that flanked the entrance until 1911, Nassau Halls bell rang after the halls construction, however, the fire of 1802 melted it. The bell was then recast and melted again in the fire of 1855, James McCosh took office as the colleges president in 1868 and lifted the institution out of a low period that had been brought about by the American Civil War. McCosh Hall is named in his honor, in 1879, the first thesis for a Doctor of Philosophy Ph. D. was submitted by James F. Williamson, Class of 1877. In 1896, the officially changed its name from the College of New Jersey to Princeton University to honor the town in which it resides
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Nebraska Field
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Nebraska Field was an American football stadium in the midwestern United States, located in Lincoln, Nebraska. At the northeast corner of North 10th Street and North T Street, Nebraska Field was succeeded by the new Memorial Stadium in 1923, which was built in the same location. The local portion of North 10th Street was eventually renamed Stadium Drive in the following the completion of Memorial Stadium. The present playing field at Memorial Stadium is conventionally aligned north-south, Nebraska Fields exact capacity is not recorded, but the largest recorded attendance was 16,000 in its final game, against Notre Dame on November 30,1922. It was the first of two losses for the legendary Four Horsemen of Notre Dame, Notre Dame was undefeated in 1924. The final game at Nebraska Field in 1922 was also the last attended by Nebraskas longtime trainer Jack Best, who had served since the programs inception in 1890
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Memorial Stadium (Lincoln)
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Memorial Stadium is located on the campus of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln in Lincoln, Nebraska, United States. It is the home of the Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, at the conclusion of the 2016 season, the stadium holds an ongoing NCAA record of 354 consecutive sellouts, which began in 1962. When full, Memorial Stadium holds more people than any Nebraska city except Omaha, because most fans wear red apparel, the stadium is referred to as the Sea of Red on game days. In the fall of 1922, a drive for $430,000 in funds to build a new stadium was undertaken by faculty, students, alumni. Later, the stadium would also honor the 3,839 Nebraskans who died in World War II, the 225 in Korea, construction was completed in just over 90 working days, Memorial Stadium was dedicated on October 20,1923. Southwest, Not the victory but the action, Not the goal but the game, northwest, Courage, Generosity, Fairness, Honor, In these are the true awards of manly sport. Northeast, Their Lives they held their countrys trust, They kept its faith, a statue of Nebraska former coach Tom Osborne and former Nebraska quarterback Brook Berringer can be found outside the north side of the stadium. Prior to the move to Memorial, finals for each class were contested at local sites. Memorial Stadium has undergone several phases of expansion and renovation since its original construction, in its original configuration, the stadium consisted of stands on the east and west sidelines. It was modeled after Ohio States Ohio Stadium and had a capacity of around 31,000. A series of four additions between 1964 and 1972 enclosed the stadium by adding seats above the north and south end zones, more than doubling Memorial Stadiums seating capacity to nearly 74,000. A major renovation in 1999 added 42 luxury boxes above the west stands, the stadium was rededicated, reflecting Nebraskas rise to national prominence during his 34 years as an assistant coach and head coach, the stadium almost doubled in size during his tenure. In 2004, construction began to renovate and expand the north end zone stands, Memorial Stadium now features an additional 13 luxury boxes above the north stands called the Skyline Suites and an additional 6,000 seats, increasing seating capacity to 81,067. Nebraska has the twentieth-largest video screen in college football, at 33 feet tall, concurrently, ribbon boards stretching the length of the field were installed along the east and west balconies of the stadium. This expansion was built on the stadiums east side, and includes 3,300 general admission seats,2,119 new club seats and 38 additional skybox suites. The expansion totals more than 6,000 new seats and brings the number of private suites inside the stadium to 101. The original east facade of the stadium, plus Gate 20, was preserved within a new entrance lobby, the creation of the first standing room only area in Memorial Stadium was also built, an area available for companies and private parties to host events on a game-to-game basis. In addition, the university created a 20, 000-square-foot cutting-edge athletics research facility in addition to another 20,000 square feet dedicated to campus research, the expansion project was completed and dedicated on August 22,2013
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Herbie Husker
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Herbie Husker is the oldest current mascot of the University of Nebraska-Lincolns sports teams. Herbie was created by Lubbock, Texas, artist Dirk West and first appeared on the cover of the Huskers media guide in 1974, soon after, he became the universitys official mascot. Herbie has gone through a few makeovers, the most recent coming before the 2003 college football season, until 2003, he was dressed in denim overalls, a red cowboy hat emblazoned with a large N, and had an ear of corn in his pocket. After the 2003 makeover, he now dons a red hat, red workshirt, blue jeans. This was done to update the appearance of the states agricultural workers. During halftime of the 2006 Capital One Bowl, Herbie was named National Mascot of the year for 2005, in January 2005, Herbie starred in his own childrens book, Hello, Herbie Husker
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Lil' Red
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Lil Red is one of two mascots representing University of Nebraska–Lincolns athletic teams. Lil Red is the newest mascot, having been created for the 1993 season after a statewide contest run for that purpose, associate athletic director Dr. Barbara Hibner was the driving force behind Lil Red. The mascot is currently produced by Signs & Shapes International, Inc. based in Omaha, due to the mascots incredibly light weight, the larger-than-life mascot can run, dance, crowd surf and shake hands. The costume was designed to appeal to children and has become a piece of Nebraska athletics culture. Lil Red was designed in a state–wide contest that was organized by Dr. Barbara Hibner to find a design that could mainly represent the schools volleyball team. Since Lil Reds introduction, he has come to represent other sporting events alongside Herbie Husker, such as football
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University of Nebraska Cornhusker Marching Band
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The University of Nebraska Cornhusker Marching Band is the marching band of the University of Nebraska. It performs at all football games. Founded in 1879, the Marching Red is one of the oldest, the band consists of 300 students from over 60 different academic majors from across the campus. Thanks to the success of the Husker football program, the Marching Red is also one of the most traveled bands in the country having participated in all of the bowl games. On November 19,2011, the Cornhusker Marching Band performed at Michigan Stadium in front of the largest audience ever to watch the band, the Cornhusker Band has also made several international tours, visiting continental Europe and Ireland. The Cornhusker Marching Band has been the recipient of many honors over the years, the Sudler Trophy is presented biannually to a college marching band program that has demonstrated particular excellence over a period of years. A ballot of all NCAA marching band directors selects the trophy recipient, the Marching Red has been seen by millions of viewers on television, and appeared on the Kennedy Center stage as part of the Kennedy Center Honors ceremony. In 2005 the band was featured on the NBC prime time series Tommy Lee Goes to College and in 2007 on ABCs Extreme Makeover, Home Edition. On October 13,2007, a crew from the comedy film, Yes Man. To become a member, each person must pass an audition in the Spring or attend a mini-camp as is the case sometimes for percussion. After first cuts, a marching and music memorization audition follows in the Fall semester. On football game days at home, the band rehearses for two hours in Memorial Stadium beginning five-and-a-half hours before kickoff, an hour-and-a-half before kickoff, the band meets in full uniform at Westbrook Music Building for warm-up and final instructions. Following is an outdoor concert at Kimball Recital Hall and the traditional march to the stadium. It is customary before the playing of Hail Varsity. to sing Band Song, throughout the history of the Marching Red, the Band has performed many fight songs at football games, most of which can be heard during the pregame performance. The band maintains the tradition of playing the teams fight song during its pregame performance. The Cornhusker Marching Bands Pregame Spectacular begins with a drum cadence, when the drum cadence changes pace, the band runs onto the field as the announcer exclaims Now is the time for the Marching Red Experience – Presenting the University of Nebraska Cornhusker. As the band plays fanfares to the crowd, the announcer proclaims This is the Pride of All Nebraska, before introducing the drum majors and twirlers. Its Football Saturday in Memorial Stadium, and there is NO PLACE LIKE NEBRASKA, the Cornhusker Marching Bands Pregame Performance contains, Dear Old Nebraska U The visiting teams fight song The Star Spangled Banner Mr
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Blackshirts (American football)
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The Blackshirts are the first-string defensive unit players for the Nebraska Cornhuskers football team. The term originally dates back to the early 1960s and refers to the practice jerseys that Nebraskas first-string defenders began to wear during practice. Assistant Coach Mike Corgan was tasked with obtaining the new jersey pullovers, the sporting goods store he visited reportedly gave him a good deal on black, because the color had apparently not been selling well. The new jerseys were then assigned to be worn by the Nebraska defensive players during practice, quickly identifying starting defensive players by the black jerseys they wore on the field made coaching them much more efficient. The unmarked black jerseys were collected each day for laundering and then redistributed during the next practice, after a time, the black jerseys were only given to the defensive players who practiced and performed well. There probably wasnt a day when we didnt make switches, said George Kelly, long-time sports information director Don Bryant credits much of Blackshirt mystique to Coach Kelly, who was often heard yelling and exhorting the Blackshirts during practices and scrimmages. The choice of black to bring about the name Blackshirts was not intentional, said Coach Kelly in later years, Honestly, it was an accident of availability. Blackshirts are awarded to defensive starters and other key defensive players, besides the black practice jerseys, which today have the players name and number imprinted on them, the Blackshirts also have a black circle on the back of their helmet. These players will often cross their arms in an X across their chests, representing the skull and crossbones and this is called Throwing the Bones. The defensive players not awarded a Blackshirt wear red practice jerseys, the student section at Memorial Stadium, Lincoln is named the Boneyard after the Blackshirts. The Blackshirts logo and throwing the bones motion is often displayed there, on October 16,2007, the defensive players and coaches made a joint decision to remove the Blackshirts. The first player to remove his Blackshirt was Senior captain Zackary Bowman, on November 11,2008, the Blackshirts were given back to the eleven defensive starters by new Head Coach Bo Pelinis staff, three days after a win against a strong Kansas Jayhawks football team. The win also made the 2008 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team bowl-eligible
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Flea Kicker
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The final minutes of the game were seen by many people on ABC, after other regional games ended. The Cornhuskers, who had won national championships for the 1994 and 1995 seasons, went into the game with an 8–0 record and they had only given up seven points in their last three games and had beaten the Tigers eighteen straight times. The Tigers were unranked with a 6–3 record, and in the history, had never beaten a No.1 ranked team. The Huskers took possession from a punt after Missouri failed to convert a first down on their own 33-yard line with 1,02 left, in less than a minute, the Huskers moved the ball 55 yards. The Huskers were on the Missouri 12-yard line with seven seconds left when Nebraska quarterback Scott Frost threw a pass intended for wingback Shevin Wiggins. The ball hit Wiggins directly in the chest near the goal line, the ball immediately shot down and hit a Missouri safety in the foot and popped back in the air. Then Missouri safety Julian Jones tackled Wiggins as time expired, as Wiggins was pulled to the ground, his leg popped up, kicking the ball into the air for a second time. Cornhuskers receiver Matt Davison leaped for the ball, his hands scraping the turf as he managed to make the catch in the endzone for a touchdown, Missouri fans stormed the field in celebration, thinking they had won. The play could have resulted in a 15-yard penalty if officials had considered the kick intentional, instead, they ruled the catch a touchdown. Once fans were cleared from the field, Kris Brown kicked the point for Nebraska to send the game into overtime. In OT, Frost ran for a touchdown, and Jones was sacked on 4th, Missouri finished the season 7–5 with a loss to Colorado State in the Holiday Bowl. The Tigers did not defeat the Cornhuskers until 2003, ending a 24-game losing streak in the series. After the game, Wiggins claimed to have kicked the ball intentionally to keep the play alive and he also at various times and in later interviews claimed to have been trying to kick the ball back to himself for a catch. Regardless, and unfortunately for the Tigers, the outcome of the game could not be changed after the fact, furthermore, the rules only allowed officials to establish intent to kick only as they could determine clearly on the field of play. Although Nebraska dropped to No.3 in the AP Poll the following week, they were still undefeated, the Cornhuskers defeated Iowa State and Colorado in the last two games of the regular season and beat Texas A&M 54–15 in the Big 12 Championship Game. Nebraska went on to defeat Peyton Manning and No.3 Tennessee 42–17 in the Orange Bowl to finish the season 13–0, the Cornhuskers had a No.1 ranking in the Coaches Poll, giving them a third national championship in four seasons. However, they had to split the championship with the 12–0 Michigan Wolverines who defeated No.8 Washington State 21–16 in the 1998 Rose Bowl, the Flea Kicker was ranked No.11 on The Best Damn Sports Show Periods list of Top 50 Amazing Catches. The Flea Kicker was also being recreated for the Fox Sports Net program Sport Science in an episode called Bet You Cant Do It Again, missouri–Nebraska football rivalry Fifth Down Game
