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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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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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Short punt formation
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The short punt formation is an older formation on both offense and defense in American football, popular when scoring was harder and a good punt was itself an offensive weapon. In times when punting on second and third down was fairly common, teams would line up in the short punt formation and offer the triple threat of punt, harpers Weekly in 1915 called it the most valuable formation known to football. The formation is similar to the wing and modern shotgun by including the possibility of a long snap from center. However, it is generally a balanced formation, and there are backs on both sides of the tailback, offering better pass protection, as a result, it was considered a much better passing formation than running, as the premiere running formation was the single wing. That said, it was regarded as a formation for trap plays The formation was invented by Amos Alonzo Stagg in 1896. Andy Smith, coach of Californias Wonder Teams summed up the short-punt philosophy with his motto of Kick, in the early days of the sport the ball was often moved up the field, not through offensive plays, but rather through punting. Once the opposing team got the ball, the defense was relied upon to make the teams offense lose yards or fumble. To confuse the opponent and attain longer punts, the punting was often done on first or second downs, the formation was used extensively by Fielding Yosts point-a-minute, hurry up Michigan Wolverines in their early history, as well as his disciple Dan McGugins Vanderbilt Commodores. Bill Roper used the short punt at Princeton, the short punt was the base formation for the Benny Friedman-led New York Giants in 1931. In the 1956 NFL Championship, the Chicago Bears shifted into a punt formation in the third quarter, after falling way behind. Glossary of American football Early history of American football Punt
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Willie Heston
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William Martin Willie Heston was an American football player and coach. He played halfback at San Jose State University and the University of Michigan, Heston was the head football coach for Drake University in 1905 and North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, now North Carolina State University, in 1906. After he retired from coaching, he practiced law and served as a court judge in Michigan. Heston was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1954 and he was selected by the Football Writers Association of America as the halfback for its all-time team for the first 50 years of the sport. University of Michigan coach Fielding H. Yost rated him as the greatest player of all-time, Heston was born in Galesburg, Illinois in 1878. His father, John William Heston, was a tenant farmer near Galesburg, at age four, Heston moved with his family to a river-bottom farm in Rippey, Iowa. At age nine, Heston moved with his family to a ranch in southwestern Kansas, in 1894, Heston moved with his family to a farm in Grants Pass, Oregon. As a teenager, he worked digging a ditch to supply water to a mine and chopping down, the local high school principal, Professor Champ Price, met Heston and suggested that he attend high school. Heston attended Grants Pass High School starting in 1895, and it was there that his ability as a runner was discovered. He graduated from school in 1898 as the co-valedictorian of his class. In 1898, Heston enrolled at San Jose State Normal School in San Jose, California, Heston was introduced to football while attending San Jose State. San Joses football coach, Jesse Woods, put Heston at the position where he scored more touchdowns in his first year of football than any of the regular players. A newspaper reported on Heston in 1898, A star run of left half Heston made 70 yards … Heston was easily the star of the game, no better performance than his has been witnessed in this state. San Joses 1899 football team, with Heston as the captain, lost only one game, during the 1900 season, San Jose was undefeated and played Chico State Normal School to a 6-6 tie in the championship game. The teams agreed to a three weeks later, and Stanfords coach Fielding H. Yost agreed to coach the San Jose State team in the two weeks leading up to the rematch. With Yosts guidance, San Jose State beat Chico State 46 to 0 in the rematch, Heston received his teaching degree from San Jose State and accepted a teaching job in Oregon in 1901. Heston initially declined, but subsequently agreed and joined Yost at the University of Michigan in late summer of 1901, Heston was enrolled in the law school. With Heston in the backfield, the Michigan Wolverines had four of the most successful seasons in the history of college football, the 1901 to 1904 teams became known as the Point-a-Minute teams because they averaged more than a point for every minute played
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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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1903 Michigan Wolverines football team
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The 1903 Michigan Wolverines football team represented the University of Michigan in the 1903 college football season. The teams head coach was Fielding H. Yost. The Wolverines played their games at Regents Field. The 1903 team compiled a record of 11–0–1 and outscored opponents 565 to 6, the only points allowed came on a touchdown in a 6–6 tie with Minnesota. The 1903 Michigan team was the third of Yosts Point-a-Minute teams and has been recognized retrospectively as a champion by the National Championship Foundation. The team captain was Curtis Redden, and the scorer was fullback Tom Hammond who scored 163 points. Halfback Willie Heston was the member of the team selected as a first-team All-American. Before the start of the 1903 season, Michigan became involved in controversy over amateurism in college football, in April 1903, David Starr Jordan, the president of Stanford University, accused Michigan coach Fielding Yost of sinning against the spirit of amateur athletics. Jordans accusations focused on two players, George W. Gregory and Willie Heston, both of whom had come to Michigan from California with Coach Yost in 1901. The Detroit Free Press reported in early September 1903 that the two might opt not to return to the University of Michigan when classes resumed. A report issued by the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools in April 1903 advocated stricter regulation to protect the nature of the games. Although the report contained only passing references to the University of Michigan, the Michigan Alumnus expressed concern that football posed a danger to the minds and morals of the players and their fellow-students. It published a letter to Coach Yost on the evils of recruiting in college football. The open letter advocated the adoption of a one-year residency rule requiring a year of satisfactory scholarship for all players on college teams and he is a man of good personal habits, and enthusiastic in his work. He exercises a wholesome influence over the men under him. We have made inquiries, and have not heard from any sources anything to give cause for uneasiness. Yost hoped that the location would allow the team to practice away from the September heat. Training camp opened on September 14,1903, and was attended by 25 players, Yost, while in Ludington, the Michigan players played a baseball game against the local team and attended a dance at the Stearns Hotel in downtown Ludington
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1905 Michigan Wolverines football team
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The 1905 Michigan Wolverines football team represented the University of Michigan in the 1905 Western Conference football season. The teams head coach was Fielding H. Yost. The Wolverines played their games at Regents Field. After winning the first 12 games of the season by a score of 495–0. The 1905 football team returned 11 varsity letter winners from the 1904 team, the only letter winners not returning from 1904 were Willie Heston and Babe Carter. Center Germany Schulz, who had played as a freshman in 1904, was expected to be the best center in the west during the 1905 season, the line also returned Octopus Graham, Henry Schulte, and Joe Curtis. Fred Norcross also returned as the starting quarterback. In the backfield, several players were in competition to replace Heston at left halfback, Tom Hammond returned at right halfback. At fullback, Frank Longman sustained an injury that was expected to keep him on the sidelines for the early part of the season. Track star John Garrels had shown promise in 1904 and was the fastest man on the Michigan team, in the first game of the 1905 season was played on a warm day with the field at Ferry Field in excellent condition. Michigan defeated the team from Ohio Wesleyan University 65-0 and was reported to have over, through, Fred Norcross ran for 144 yards in the first half, including a 70-yard touchdown run. Hammond was Michigans high scorer with 25 points on four touchdowns, the game was played in halves of 18.5 minutes and 15 minutes. In the first game, Michigan scored 65 points in 33.5 minutes, Michigans starting lineup was Garrels, Curtis, Love, Clement, Graham, Patrick, Stuart, Norcross, Dunlap, Workman, Hammond. In the second game of the season, played at Ferry Field, despite the one-sided score, The Michigan Alumnus complained, The whole offensive work was ragged and spiritless, the warm weather having much to do with this. The game was played in halves of 20 minutes and 15 minutes, through two games, Michigan had scored 109 points in 68.5 minutes. Michigans starting lineup was Garrels, Curtis, Love, Clement, Graham, Patrick, Stuart, Norcross, Dunlap, Workman, the third game of the season matched Michigan against Case. With most of the game played by the scrubs, Michigan defeated Case 36-0, in his first start at left halfback, Paul Magoffin had a 75-yard run against Case. The game was played in halves of 20 minutes each, through three games, Michigan had scored 145 points in 108.5 minutes
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1904 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team
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The 1904 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team represented the University of Minnesota in the 1904 Western Conference football season. In their fifth year head coach Henry L. Williams. The 1904 Minnesota team has been recognized as a college national champion by the Billingsley Report. The 146 point victory over Grinnell represents both the largest point total and the largest margin of victory in Gopher football history, thorpe and Daniel D. Smith, Minnesota, and center Moses Strathern. Two players also received recognition on the 1904 College Football All-America Team, quarterback Sigmund Harris received third-team honors from Walter Camp, and guard Walton Thorp received first-team honors from Illinois coach Fred Lowenthal and third-team honors from Walter Camp
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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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College Football Hall of Fame
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The College Football Hall of Fame is a hall of fame and museum devoted to college football. The National Football Foundation launched the Hall in 1951 to immortalize the players, from 1995 to 2012, the Hall was located in South Bend, Indiana. It was connected to a center and situated in the citys renovated downtown district,2 miles south of the University of Notre Dame campus. In August 2014, the College Football Hall of Fame and Chick-fil-A Fan Experience opened in downtown Atlanta, rutgers donated land near its football stadium, office space, and administrative support. In response, the Foundation moved its operations to New York City, when the New York Attorney Generals office began its own investigation, the foundation moved to Kings Mills, Ohio, where a building finally was constructed adjacent to Kings Island in 1978. The Hall opened with good attendance figures early on, but visitation dwindled dramatically as time went on, nearby Galbreath Field remained open as the home of Moeller High School football until 2003. A new building was opened in South Bend, Indiana on August 25,1995. Despite estimates that the South Bend location would more than 150,000 visitors a year, the Hall of Fame drew about 115,000 people the first year. In 2009, the National Football Foundation decided to move the College Football Hall of Fame to Atlanta, the possibility of moving the museum has been brought up in other cities, including Dallas, which had the financial backing of billionaire T. Boone Pickens. However, the National Football Foundation ultimately decided on Atlanta for the next site, the new $68.5 million museum opened on August 23,2014. It is located next to Centennial Olympic Park, which is near other attractions such as the Georgia Aquarium, the World of Coca-Cola, CNN Center, and the National Center for Civil and Human Rights. The Hall of Fame is located near the Georgia Institute of Technology of the ACC, the new building broke ground on January 28,2013. Sections of the architecture are reminiscent of a football in shape, the facility is 94,256 square feet and contains approximately 50,000 square feet of exhibit and event space, interactive displays and a 45-yard indoor football field. Atlanta Hall Management operates the College Football Hall of Fame, as of 2017, there are 987 players and 214 coaches enshrined in the College Football Hall of Fame, representing 306 schools. The National Football Foundation outlines specific criteria that may be used for evaluating a candidate for induction into the Hall of Fame. A player must have received major first team All-America recognition, a player becomes eligible for consideration 10 years after his last year of intercollegiate football played. Football achievements are considered first, but the record as a citizen is also weighed. Players must have played their last year of football within the last 50 years
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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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Ohio Northern University
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Ohio Northern University is a private, United Methodist Church-affiliated university located in the United States in Ada, Ohio, founded by Henry Solomon Lehr in 1871. ONU is accredited by The Higher Learning Commission and the North Central Association of Colleges, ONU is a sister university with Dankook University, a private university in Seoul, South Korea. In 2008,2009,2010, and 2013 U. S. News & World Report listed Ohio Northern as Regional Universities, throughout the 1960s, a number of ONU students and faculty/staff participated in the American Civil Rights Movement. ONU hosted Dr. Martin Luther King on January 11,1968, four days before his 39th birthday, under Dr. Kendall Baker, campus additions include Dicke Hall, an expansion of the Robertson-Evans Pharmacy building, and the Dial-Roberson Stadium. In 2008, Ohio Northern University built and opened The Inn at Ohio Northern University, ONU joined OhioLINK and technology revolutionized academic administrative activities and supported classroom activities. With the addition of the Internet, the university began offering its first distance learning courses in the pharmacy program, today, there are over 1,200 networked computers and Internet access on campus. Ohio Northern is ranked second among midwest regional colleges by the U. S. News & World Report and it is considered more selective, with an acceptance rate of 68%. It has a 53% 4-year graduation rate, more recently, the university has commenced a search for a new president with the announcement that Dr. Kendall L. Baker will retire effective August 2011. On February 4,2010, ONU announced that its board of trustees approved the nomination of Daniel A. DiBiasio, DiBiasio assumed his duties on August 1,2011. In the 2006–07 academic year, in an effort to reduce wasted resources the university instituted a printing policy, the cost of printing one page is four cents. As of 2009, approximately 30% of the campus uses geothermal heating and cooling, in 2010, three 220 feet tall wind turbines were constructed. Each turbine generates 400 kilowatts of power and the three turbines will meet five to ten percent of the Universitys electricity needs, the university comprises five colleges, Getty College of Arts and Sciences James F. Dicke College of Business Administration T. J. Smull College of Engineering Rudolph H. Raabe College of Pharmacy Claude W. Pettit College of Law Prior to 1973 and it was renamed in honor of Claude W. Pettit, a judge and former dean of the college. ONU students participate in intercollegiate, intramural, and sports clubs in a variety of sports, the ONU Polar Bears compete in the NCAA Division III Ohio Athletic Conference. The mens volleyball team participates in the Midwest Intercollegiate Volleyball Association in the Great Midwest Mens Volleyball Conference, the school mascot is a polar bear named Klondike. The ONU varsity football team defeated Mount Union College in 2005 to snap the Purple Raiders 110-game regular season winning streak, the ONU varsity mens swim team won their 7th straight OAC Conference Championship in 2011
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Kalamazoo College
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Kalamazoo College, also known as K College or simply K, is a private liberal arts college in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Founded in 1833, the college is among the 100 oldest in the country, today, it produces more Peace Corps volunteers per capita than any other US academic institution. From 1997 to 2006 it ranked 21st among all institutions in the percentage of graduates who went on to earn doctorates. The school was founded by American Baptist ministers, but today maintains no religious affiliation, Kalamazoo College is a member of the Great Lakes Colleges Association. It is listed in Loren Popes Colleges That Change Lives, in 2012, Forbes rated it 65th of Americas Best Colleges, the highest ranked in Michigan as a private college. Kalamazoo College was founded in 1833 by a group of Baptist ministers as the Michigan and its charter was granted on April 22,1833, the first school chartered by the Legislative Council of the Territory of Michigan. Instruction at the Institute began in fall 1836, in 1837, the name of the fledgling college was changed to the Kalamazoo Literary Institute and school officials made their first attempt to secure recognition as a college from the state of Michigan. In 1838, however, the University of Michigan opened the Kalamazoo Branch of the University of Michigan, in 1840, the two schools merged, and from 1840 to 1850 the College operated as the Kalamazoo Branch of the University of Michigan. After receiving its charter, the school changed its name to Kalamazoo College. Shortly after becoming president, Stone proposed the addition of a seminary to increase the supply of ministers in the region. With the support of the Baptist church, classes at the Kalamazoo Theological Seminary began in 1848 with 11 students, at the same time, the Female Department continued to expand under the watchful eye of Lucinda Hinsdale Stone. In 1845-46, almost half of the 90 students enrolled in Kalamazoo were women, the Stones also played a role in the creation of the Republican Party. The first known student of African descent to attend Kalamazoo College was ex-slave Rufus Lewis Perry, Perry attended Kalamazoo Theological Seminary from 1860–1861, but left before he received a diploma. He was ordained a Baptist minister in Ann Arbor in 1861, jamaican-born brothers Solomon and John Williamson were the first black graduates from K, receiving their diplomas in 1911. Kalamazoo College also served as a pioneer in coed education, granting its first degree to a woman, Catherine V. Eldred, in 1877, Kalamazoo College students published the first edition of The Index, a student-run newspaper that continues to publish today. The college also publishes The Cauldron, an annual journal, and The Passage. Kalamazoo Colleges reputation as a powerhouse and a leader in international education was built during the presidency of Weimer Hicks. Hicks conceived of the K Plan program under which most Kalamazoo students spend at least one term abroad, as part of the original K Plan, Kalamazoo College students could attend school year-round
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University of Illinois College of Medicine
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The University of Illinois College of Medicine offers a four-year program leading to the MD degree at four different sites in Illinois, Chicago, Peoria, Rockford, and Urbana–Champaign. In 2011, enrollment of students in the University of Illinois system totaled 1,290 according to the Association of American Medical Colleges. The College of Medicine, originally an independent institution, opened on September 26,1882 as the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Chicago with 100 students and a faculty of 30. Five years later, the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois approved a contract of affiliation whereby the university would lease P&S as its Department of Medicine, the arrangement continued until 1912 when there was a nine-month hiatus in the affiliation due to a lack of legislative support. John—decided to open their own medical school. They pooled together $5,541.78, purchased a piece of land, the new school, located on Harrison and Honore streets, was named the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Chicago. Its doors opened on Sept.26,1882, with a class of 100 students, at the West Side Free Dispensary, located on the first floor of the medical school, students in small groups could observe pathological cases and their treatment. Patients were classified according to the area or system of the body, heart, lungs, eyes, ears. The dispensary also furnished material for college clinics in medicine, surgery, gynecology, obstetrics, ophthalmology, neurology, in its first three years, the dispensary registered 20,353 patients and dispensed 17,347 prescriptions. In 1913, after years of negotiations, the P&S faculty, in 1970, the Illinois legislature voted to expand the college to three additional sites, Peoria, Rockford and Urbana. Their purpose was to access to care for all citizens in the state. The College of Medicine has a faculty of approximately 4,000 across the four sites, Chicago Campus Located in one of the world’s largest medical districts, medical students on the Chicago campus get early clinical experience. All students accompany physicians on rounds and learn to take patient histories starting in their first year, in addition to serving as the Chicago program site, the Chicago campus of the College of Medicine is the administrative home for the dean and all other college-wide officers. The College of Medicines Chicago campus sits on a plot of land occupied by West Side Park. Rockford Campus The Rockford campus includes the Center for Rural Health Professions, Rockford teaches second through fourth year medical students and offers a family medicine residency program. Urbana also offers the dual-degree Medical Scholars Program, the College of Medicine offers a Doctor of Medicine degree program and three joint degree programs, MD/PhD, MD/MPH, and MD/MBA. The MD curriculum of the College of Medicine at Chicago is the largest of the four programs. It provides instruction in basic and clinical sciences and early exposure to patients, Innovative Medicine, Urban Medicine, Rural Medicine, and Global Medicine Program for Medical Students
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Ohio Field
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Ohio Field was a multipurpose stadium on the campus of The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, United States. It was built in 1898, dedicated in 1908, and served as the first on-campus home of the Ohio State Buckeyes football team as well as the track, initial seating capacity was approximately 500 until 1907, when a grandstand and bleachers were added. Another renovation in 1910 saw a second grandstand added, with such as brick ticket booths and iron fences. While playing at Ohio Field, the Buckeyes joined the Big Ten Conference, then known as the Western Conference, the football team rose to prominence after the arrival of Chic Harley in 1916, who led the team to their first conference championships in 1916 and 1917. The teams success and the popularity of Harley led to a significant increase in the demand for tickets, in 1919,20,000 fans attended the game against Illinois, with an estimated 40,000 watching from the stadiums perimeter, including from the roofs of neighboring homes. The increased popularity of Ohio State football necessitated construction of a larger stadium, land was purchased by the university in 1919 along the Olentangy River and a fundraising drive was started. Ohio Stadium opened in 1922, with a seating capacity of approximately 63,000. After the opening of Ohio Stadium, Ohio Field was torn down and it was located on North High Street, between 17th and Woodruff Avenues. Presently, the space is occupied by Arps Hall, Ramseyer Hall and a parking garage
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Columbus, Ohio
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Columbus is the capital and largest city of the U. S. state of Ohio. It is the 15th-largest city in the United States, with a population of 850,106 as of 2015 estimates and this makes Columbus the fourth-most populous state capital in the United States, and the third-largest city in the Midwestern United States. It is the city of the Columbus, Ohio, Metropolitan Statistical Area. With a population of 2,021,632, it is Ohios third-largest metropolitan area, Columbus is the county seat of Franklin County. The city proper has also expanded and annexed portions of adjoining Delaware County, named for explorer Christopher Columbus, the city was founded in 1812 at the confluence of the Scioto and Olentangy rivers, and assumed the functions of state capital in 1816. As of 2013, the city has the headquarters of five corporations in the U. S, fortune 500, Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company, American Electric Power, L Brands, Big Lots, and Cardinal Health. In 2012, Columbus was ranked in BusinessWeeks 50 best cities in America. In 2013, Forbes gave Columbus an A rating as one of the top cities for business in the U. S. and later that included the city on its list of Best Places for Business. Columbus was also ranked as the No.1 up-and-coming tech city in the nation by Forbes in 2008, and the city was ranked a top-ten city by Relocate America in 2010. In 2007, fDi Magazine ranked the city no.3 in the U. S. for cities of the future, and the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium was rated no.1 in 2009 by USA Travel Guide. The area including modern-day Columbus once comprised the Ohio Country, under the control of the French colonial empire through the Viceroyalty of New France from 1663 until 1763. In the 18th century, European traders flocked to the area, the area found itself frequently caught between warring factions, including American Indian and European interests. In the 1740s, Pennsylvania traders overran the territory until the French forcibly evicted them, in the early 1750s, the Ohio Company sent George Washington to the Ohio Country to survey. Fighting for control of the territory in the French and Indian War became part of the international Seven Years War, during this period, the region routinely suffered turmoil, massacres, and battles. The 1763 Treaty of Paris ceded the Ohio Country to the British Empire, after the American Revolution, the Ohio Country became part of the Virginia Military District, under the control of the United States. Colonists from the East Coast moved in, but rather finding a empty frontier, they encountered people of the Miami, Delaware, Wyandot, Shawnee. The tribes resisted expansion by the fledgling United States, leading to years of bitter conflict, the decisive Battle of Fallen Timbers resulted in the Treaty of Greenville, which finally opened the way for new settlements. By 1797, a surveyor from Virginia named Lucas Sullivant had founded a permanent settlement on the west bank of the forks of the Scioto River
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Camp Randall Stadium
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Camp Randall Stadium is an outdoor stadium in Madison, Wisconsin, located on the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus. It has been the home of Wisconsin Badgers football since 1895, the oldest and fifth largest stadium in the Big Ten Conference, Camp Randall is the 41st largest stadium in the world, with a seating capacity of 80,321. The stadium lies on the grounds of Camp Randall, a former Union Army training camp during the Civil War, the camp was named after then Governor Alexander Randall, who later became Postmaster General of the United States. After an outcry from veterans over plans to turn the site into building lots, soon afterward, it was pressed into service as an athletic ground. It was originally used by the track and field team before the football and baseball teams moved there in 1895, however, the wooden bleachers were very difficult to maintain, and a portion of them were actually condemned as unsafe in 1914. The university then asked for $40,000 to build a concrete-and-steel stadium, however, after three sections of bleachers collapsed during a 1915 game, the state readily granted the additional money. The new stadium opened for the first time on October 6,1917 and it consisted of 7,500 concrete seats—roughly corresponding to the lower portion of the current stadiums east grandstand—and 3,000 wooden seats from the old field. After the wooden seats burned down in 1922, more permanent seats were added in stages until it consisted of an opening to the south, with a running track around the field. Originally natural grass, the field was one of the first in the United States to convert to artificial turf in 1968, superturf was installed in 1980, and a new AstroTurf field was installed in 1990, and replaced in 1998. A new type of grass, infilled FieldTurf, was installed for the 2003 season. The stadium also houses offices of the university. In 2002, a reconstruction project commenced, which added luxury boxes, a five-story office building. In addition, concessions, restrooms and other items were upgraded, the walkway around the field was removed. The construction was completed prior to the start of the 2004 season, the football team continued to play at the stadium throughout the construction. Also during this period of reconstruction at the stadium, changes were made to the team locker room. Known as one of the best visiting team locker rooms in the Big Ten Conference, it was painted a bright pink. Since this change, the Badgers have had a 43–4 home record, the numbers of Wisconsins two Heisman Trophy winners, Alan Ameche and Ron Dayne, are displayed on the upper deck façade. Both of their numbers are retired, The retired numbers of Elroy Hirsch, Dave Schreiner, Allan Schafer, at Barry Alvarezs final game as head coach in 2005, plans were announced to place a statue of him in the Stadiums Kellner Plaza
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Madison, Wisconsin
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Madison is the capital of the U. S. state of Wisconsin and the county seat of Dane County. As of July 1,2015, Madisons estimated population of 248,951 made it the second largest city in Wisconsin, after Milwaukee, and the 84th largest in the United States. The city forms the core of the United States Census Bureaus Madison Metropolitan Statistical Area, which includes Dane County and neighboring Iowa, Green, the Madison Metropolitan Statistical Areas 2010 population was 568,593. When the Wisconsin Territory was created in 1836 the territorial legislature convened in Belmont, One of the legislatures tasks was to select a permanent location for the territorys capital. Doty lobbied aggressively for Madison as the new capital, offering buffalo robes to the freezing legislators and he had James Slaughter plat two cities in the area, Madison and The City of Four Lakes, near present-day Middleton. Doty named the city Madison for James Madison, the fourth President of the U. S. who had died on June 28,1836 and he named the streets for the other 39 signers of the U. S. Constitution. Being named for the founding father James Madison, who had just died. The cornerstone for the Wisconsin capitol was laid in 1837, on October 9,1839, Kintzing Prichett registered the plat of Madison at the registrars office of the then-territorial Dane County. Madison was incorporated as a village in 1846, with a population of 626, when Wisconsin became a state in 1848, Madison remained the capital, and the following year it became the site of the University of Wisconsin. The Milwaukee & Mississippi Railroad connected to Madison in 1854, Madison incorporated as a city in 1856, with a population of 6,863, leaving the unincorporated remainder as a separate Town of Madison. The original capitol was replaced in 1863 and the capitol burned in 1904. The current capitol was built between 1906 and 1917, during the Civil War, Madison served as a center of the Union Army in Wisconsin. Camp Randall, on the west side of Madison, was built and used as a camp, a military hospital. After the war ended, the Camp Randall site was absorbed into the University of Wisconsin, in 2004 the last vestige of active military training on the site was removed when the stadium renovation replaced a firing range used for ROTC training. The City of Madison continued annexations from the Town of Madison almost from the date of the citys incorporation, Madison is located in the center of Dane County in south-central Wisconsin,77 miles west of Milwaukee and 122 miles northwest of Chicago. The city completely surrounds the smaller Town of Madison, the City of Monona, Madison shares borders with its largest suburb, Sun Prairie, and three other suburbs, Middleton, McFarland and Fitchburg. The citys boundaries also approach the city of Verona, and the villages of Cottage Grove, DeForest, and Waunakee. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 94.03 square miles
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Eastern Time Zone
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Places that use Eastern Standard Time when observing standard time are 5 hours behind Coordinated Universal Time. Eastern Daylight Time, when observing daylight saving time DST is 4 hours behind Coordinated Universal Time, in the northern parts of the time zone, on the second Sunday in March, at 2,00 a. m. EST, clocks are advanced to 3,00 a. m. EDT leaving a one-hour gap, on the first Sunday in November, at 2,00 a. m. EDT, clocks are moved back to 1,00 a. m, southern parts of the zone do not observe daylight saving time. The Uniform Time Act of 1966 ruled that daylight saving time would run from the last Sunday of April until the last Sunday in October in the United States, the act was amended to make the first Sunday in April the beginning of daylight saving time as of 1987. The Energy Policy Act of 2005 extended daylight saving time in the United States beginning in 2007. So local times change at 2,00 a. m. EST to 3,00 a. m. EDT on the second Sunday in March, in Canada, the time changes as it does in the United States. However, a handful of communities unofficially observe Eastern Time because they are part of the Columbus, Georgia metropolitan area – Phenix City, Smiths Station, Lanett, and Valley. Florida, All of Florida is in the Eastern Time zone except for the portion of the Florida Panhandle west of the Apalachicola River, as the Eastern–Central zone boundary approaches the Gulf of Mexico, it follows the Bay/Gulf county line. Indiana, All of Indiana observes Eastern Time except for six counties in the Chicago metropolitan area. Kentucky, Roughly, the half of the state, including all of metropolitan Louisville, is in the Eastern Time Zone. Historically the entire state observed Central Time, when daylight saving time was first introduced, the Lower Peninsula remained on DST after it formally ended, effectively re-aligning itself into the Eastern Time Zone. The Upper Peninsula continued to observe Central Time until 1972, when all, Tennessee, Most of the eastern third of Tennessee is legally on Eastern Time. Eastern Time is also used somewhat as a de facto official time for all of the United States, since it includes the capital and the largest city. Major professional sports leagues also post all game times in Eastern time, for example, a game time between two teams from Pacific Time Zone will still be posted in Eastern time. Most cable television and national broadcast networks advertise airing times in Eastern time, national broadcast networks generally have two primary feeds, an eastern feed for Eastern and Central time zones, and a tape-delayed western feed for the Pacific Time Zone. The prime time is set on Eastern and Pacific at 8,00 p. m. with the Central time zone stations receiving the eastern feed at 7,00 p. m. local time. Mountain Time Zone stations receive a separate feed at 7,00 p. m. local time, as Arizona does not observe daylight saving time, during the summer months, it has its own feed at 7,00 p. m. local time
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Cleveland
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Cleveland is a city in the U. S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Cuyahoga County, the states second most populous county. The city proper has a population of 388,072, making Cleveland the 51st largest city in the United States, Greater Cleveland ranked as the 32nd largest metropolitan area in the United States, with 2,055,612 people in 2016. The city is the center of the Cleveland–Akron–Canton Combined Statistical Area, the city is located on the southern shore of Lake Erie, approximately 60 miles west of the Pennsylvania border. Clevelands economy has diversified sectors that include manufacturing, financial services, healthcare, Cleveland is also home to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Residents of Cleveland are called Clevelanders, Cleveland has many nicknames, the oldest of which in contemporary use being The Forest City. Cleaveland oversaw the plan for what would become the downtown area, centered on Public Square, before returning home. The first settler in Cleaveland was Lorenzo Carter, who built a cabin on the banks of the Cuyahoga River, the Village of Cleaveland was incorporated on December 23,1814. In spite of the swampy lowlands and harsh winters, its waterfront location proved to be an advantage. The area began rapid growth after the 1832 completion of the Ohio, growth continued with added railroad links. Cleveland incorporated as a city in 1836, in 1836, the city, then located only on the eastern banks of the Cuyahoga River, nearly erupted into open warfare with neighboring Ohio City over a bridge connecting the two. Ohio City remained an independent municipality until its annexation by Cleveland in 1854, the citys prime geographic location as a transportation hub on the Great Lakes has played an important role in its development as a commercial center. Cleveland serves as a point for iron ore shipped from Minnesota. In 1870, John D. Rockefeller founded Standard Oil in Cleveland, other manufacturers located in Cleveland produced steam-powered cars, which included White and Gaeth, as well as the electric car company Baker. Because of the significant growth, Cleveland was known as the Sixth City during this period, by 1920, due in large part to the citys economic prosperity, Cleveland became the nations fifth largest city. The city counted Progressive Era politicians such as the populist Mayor Tom L. Johnson among its leaders, many prominent Clevelanders from this era are buried in the historic Lake View Cemetery, including President James A. Garfield, and John D. Rockefeller. In commemoration of the centennial of Clevelands incorporation as a city, conceived as a way to energize a city after the Great Depression, it drew four million visitors in its first season, and seven million by the end of its second and final season in September 1937. The exposition was housed on grounds that are now used by the Great Lakes Science Center, following World War II, the city experienced a prosperous economy. In sports, the Indians won the 1948 World Series, the hockey Barons became champions of the American Hockey League, as a result, along with track and boxing champions produced, Cleveland was dubbed City of Champions in sports at this time
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Case Western Reserve University
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Case Western Reserve University is a private doctorate-granting university in Cleveland, Ohio. The university was created in 1967 by the federation of Case Institute of Technology, time magazine described the merger as the creation of Clevelands Big-Leaguer university. In U. S. News & World Reports 2015 rankings, in 2016, the inaugural edition of The Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education ranked Case Western Reserve as 32nd among all universities and 29th among private institutions. The University is associated with 16 Nobel laureates and it is also a leading institution for research in electrochemistry and electrochemical engineering. Currently, the Editor for the Journal of the Electrochemical Society is a Case professor, Case Western Reserve is a member of the Association of American Universities. Severance Hall, home of the Cleveland Orchestra, is also on the Case Western Reserve University campus and this experiment proved the non-existence of the luminiferous ether and was later understood as convincing evidence in support of special relativity as proposed by Albert Einstein in 1905. Michelson became the first American to win a Nobel Prize in science, the commemorative Michelson-Morley Memorial Fountain as well as an Ohio Historical Marker are located on campus, near where the actual experiment was performed. Case Western Reserve University was created in 1967, when Western Reserve University and Case Institute of Technology, institutions that had been neighbors for 81 years, formally federated. Western Reserve College was founded in 1826 in Hudson, Ohio, the nearby city of Cleveland, located about 26 miles to its northwest, had only begun to grow. Western Reserve College, or Reserve as it was called, was the first college in northern Ohio. By 1875, a number of schools had been established nearby. In 1882, with funding from Amasa Stone, Western Reserve College moved to Cleveland, in 1877, Leonard Case Jr. began laying the groundwork for the Case School of Applied Science by secretly donating valuable pieces of Cleveland real estate to a trust. He asked his confidential advisor, Henry Gilbert Abbey, to administer the trust, the Case School of Applied Science was issued a charter by the state of Ohio in 1882, four months after Cases death. For the first four years of the existence, it was located in the Case familys home on Rockwell Street in downtown Cleveland. Classes were held in the house, while the chemistry. The school moved to University Circle in 1885, over time, the Case School of Applied Science grew to encompass a broader vision, adopting the name Case Institute of Technology in 1947 to reflect the institutions growing stature. The institutions already shared buildings and staff when necessary and worked together often, One such example was seen in 1887, when Case physicist Albert Michelson and Reserve chemist Edward Morley collaborated on the famous Michelson–Morley experiment. There had been discussion of a merger of the two institutions as early as 1890, but those talks dissolved quickly
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Fullback (gridiron football)
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A fullback is a position in the offensive backfield in American and Canadian football, and is one of the two running back positions along with the halfback. Examples of players who have excelled at the hybrid running-blocking-pass catching role include Mike Alstott, in the days before two platoons, the fullback was usually the teams punter and drop kicker. In modern play, the fullback is a misnomer. Before the emergence of the T-formation in the 1940s, most teams used four offensive backs on every play, a quarterback, two halfbacks, and a fullback. The quarterback began each play a quarter of the way back, the halfbacks began each play side by side and halfway back, and the fullback began each play the farthest back. In the modern game, when the quarterback is under center, fullbacks are typically known less for speed and agility and more for muscularity and the ability to shed tackles. In the modern NFL, fullbacks, while deployed as ball carriers, are often primarily a lead blocker to allow running backs to get to the secondary of the opposing teams defense. In the early 2000s, many NFL teams used blocking fullbacks, such as Tony Richardson and Lorenzo Neal and these backs cleared the way for some of the decades great running backs. There are still fullbacks who remaining prominent in the NFL, among them Aaron Ripkowski, Jamize Olawale, James Develin, John Kuhn, Patrick DiMarco, Mike Tolbert, Kyle Juszczyk, and Marcel Reece. However, in spite of their usually infrequent carries in modern NFL offenses, notably LeRon McClain was the rushing leader for the Baltimore Ravens in 2008 and Tony Richardson led the Kansas City Chiefs in rushing in 2000. Giants running back Peyton Hillis started his NFL career as a fullback before being reverted into a halfback, although technically a running back, typically fullbacks are primarily valued for their blocking in most modern day offenses. The most common and simple runs, the Dive and the Blast, in the flexbone formation, however, the fullback can often be used as the primary rushing threat. In many other schemes, the fullback is used as a receiver. In selected plays, some teams will have a defensive lineman report as a receiver to line up as a fullback or tight end in a Miami package in goalline formation. Defensive Tackle William The Refrigerator Perry scored a touchdown in Super Bowl XX from the fullback position, most teams in the NFL do not have a substitute fullback, though there are exceptions. The role can be filled by backup or number three or four tight ends or bigger and less-frequently-used running backs. In modern offenses, fullbacks in an I-formation can be motioned into a 2-TE formation or H-back formation, the position is less frequently used in Canadian football, which focuses more on passing than running the ball
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Frank Longman
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Frank Chandler Shorty Longman was an American college football player and coach. A native of Ann Arbor, Michigan, Longman played college football at the University of Michigan from 1903 to 1905 and he later served as the head football coach at the University of Arkansas, and the University of Notre Dame. A native of Battle Creek, Michigan, Longman was one of the stars of Fielding H. Yosts Point-a-Minute teams at the University of Michigan in 1903,1904, and 1905. In December 1904, the Chicago Daily Tribune wrote, Longman hits the line like a shot from a catapult. University of Chicago star, Walter Eckersall, later wrote of Longman, Outside of Billy Heston and Tom Hammond, Longman was the most respected player on the Wolverine elevens of those years. He was a line plunger, had an uncanny knack of holding his feet. Aside from being a ball carrier, Longman was a splendid blocker. From 1906 to 1907, he served as the football coach at the University of Arkansas. He then coached for one season at the College of Wooster in 1908, from 1909 to 1910, he coached at Notre Dame, where his teams went 11–1–2. In December 1910, Longman sold a business and opened a new business in Ann Arbor. In August 1911, Longman resigned as the coach at Notre Dame, at the time, The Indianapolis Star wrote, Shorty Longman, former Michigan star full back, all-American choice, and one of the finest players that ever donned the moleskins, has forsaken football. All Notre Dame will mourn the loss of Longman and he was a prime favorite among the pigskin artists, and a general favorite among the student body. His work with the eleven and their subsequent victories made him the hero of every Notre Dame man, Longman put on the field for Notre Dame the classiest group of football players that ever fought under the Catholic colors. Longman died from tuberculosis of the lungs and larynx at the University of Michigan Hospital in 1928 at age 45, frank Longman at the College Football Data Warehouse
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Walter Rheinschild
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Walter Meadowfield Rheinschild, known also by the nicknames Rheiny and Rhino, was an American football player and coach. He played for the University of Michigan in 1904,1905, and 1907 and he later coached for Washington State University in 1908, St. Vincent College in 1909, Throop College in 1913, and Occidental College in 1917. Rheinschild was born in Lawrence, Kansas in 1884 and raised in Los Angeles, in the 1890s, Rheinschild began playing football for the Boyle Heights Stars in the Boyle Heights section of Los Angeles. With Rheinschild playing fullback, the Stars won what the Los Angeles Times called the championship of this city. In 1900, Rheinschild enrolled at Los Angeles High School, where he became a gridiron hero, in 1902, the powerful Los Angeles High School team again defeated college teams, including USC, Occidental, Pomona and Throop College. In his senior year in 1903, Rheinschild led Los Angeles High School to the California state championship, Rheinschild also organized the first track team at Los Angeles High School and was elected as the first captain of the track team. Rheinschild was one of the most heavily recruited high school players in the United States in 1904. USC coach Harvey Holmes recruited him strenuously, and Rheinschild later said that Holmes had offered him $75 a month for his services, at the time, USC was not a major football program, and Rheinschild reportedly wanted nothing but the big league stuff. The University of Wisconsin made an offer to Rheinschild which he said was $25 higher than USC had offered, Rheinschild recalled, Twelve hundred looked big to me, but I wanted a winner. Wisconsin had been a joke for many seasons and I couldnt see it, a former coach at Los Angeles High School, Shorty Roach, was a friend of Michigan coach Fielding H. Yost and a Michigan scout on the side. Roach encouraged Rheinschild to consider Michigan, which had not lost a game since 1900, Rheinschild was a star tackle on last years local high school team. He declares openly that Manager Baird of Michigan offered to pay all his expenses during the season, Wisconsin, he says, offered him all traveling expenses and $60 a month for two hours work a day at the state capital. Rheinschild leaves tomorrow for the east, if Michigan equals Wisconsins offer he will go to Ann Arbor, if not, to Madison. At Kansas City he expects to receive Bairds highest offer, Rheinschild was also visited by a delegation from Dartmouth College seeking to do business with the California lad. Rheinschild later told the Los Angeles Times that Dartmouth had offered him $2,200 for a work on the football team. Michigans athletic director Charles A. Baird also denied making any offers of assistance to Rheinschild. However, when he rejected Dartmouths offer of $2,200 and it was rumored that Rheinschild was receiving as much as $50,000 a year at Michigan, which if true would be as much as the U. S. President at the time. Rheinschild enrolled at the University of Michigan in 1904 and played for Fielding H. Yosts Michigan Wolverines football teams of 1904,1905, and 1907
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Joe Curtis
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John Spencer Big Joe Curtis was an American football player and coach. While playing for the University of Michigan, he was selected as a first-team All-Western tackle three consecutive years from 1904 to 1906 and as an All-American in 1904 and 1905. Curtis later served as the football coach at Tulane University from 1907 to 1908 and at the School of Mines in Golden. A native of Pueblo, Colorado, Curtis played three years of school football in Colorado. He enrolled at the University of Michigan in 1903 to play football for Fielding H. Yosts famous Point-a-Minute football teams and he played tackle for the Michigan Wolverines from 1903 to 1906. As a freshman in 1903, Curtis was selected by Yost to play on the varsity football team. He started all games at left tackle for the Michigan team that finished the season with a record of 11–0–1, outscored opponents 565–6. In 1904, Curtis started all ten games at tackle for the Michigan football team that compiled a 10–0 record, outscored opponents 567–22. At the end of the 1904 season, Curtis was selected as a first-team All-Western tackle by the Chicago Daily News, Chicago Journal, Chicago Post and Chicago News. The Chicago Tribune also selected Curtis for its 1904 All-Western team and noted, weighing 230 pounds, strong, active, he has outplayed every opponent. Seldom has he been boxed in by end of tackle plays, on the offense he has developed into one of the best ground gainers on Yosts eleven, and has been most effective in disposing of his opponents when his team has had possession of the ball. Although Eastern football writer Walter Camp picked Curtis as a second-team All-American in 1904, in announcing the selection, that writer said, Hogan of Yale is the best tackle of the year. Next to him is Curtis of Michigan, a wonder on defense, there can be little doubt of the ability of this pair to make the real All-America. Curtis was considered one of the best defensive players in the West, curtiss individual scoring totals in 1905 included the following, In a 44–0 win over Kalamazoo College, Curtis scored three touchdowns. In a 36–0 win over Case, Curtis scored two touchdowns and kicked a goal from touchdown, in a 23–0 win over Ohio Northern, Curtis scored two touchdowns and three goals from touchdown. In an 18–0 win over Vanderbilt, Curtis scored a touchdown and did service in advancing the ball. In a 31–0 win over Nebraska, Curtis scored a touchdown, in a 70–0 win over Albion College, Curtis scored a touchdown and ten goals from touchdown. In a 48–0 win over Drake, Curtis scored seven goals from touchdown, in a 40–0 win over Ohio State, Curtis scored a touchdown and a goal from touchdown
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Thomas S. Hammond
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Thomas Stevens Tom or T. S. Hammond was an American business and political leader, soldier, and college football player and coach. He played football for Fielding H. Yosts renowned 1903,1904 and 1905 Point-a-Minute football teams at the University of Michigan, in 1906, he served as the head coach of the Ole Miss Rebels football team. He worked for the Whiting Corporation in Harvey, Illinois, starting in 1907 and eventually became the companys president, during World War I, Hammond served as an artillery officer in the Rainbow Division of the U. S. Army. He remained active in the Illinois National Guard after the war, Hammond was also active in Republican Party politics and served as the chairman of the Illinois Citizens Republican Finance Committee and the Chicago America First Committee. During World War II, he was decorated for his work as chief of production of the Chicago ordnance district, Hammond was born in 1883 at Crown Point, New York. He came from a family that manufactured iron for generations at Crown Point and his grandfather was Brig. Gen. John Hammond, who served in the Union Army during the Civil War and later became a U. S. When the Hammond familys iron works began to suffer as a result of competition from Lake Superior iron ore, the younger Hammond attended Hyde Park High School on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois. He played football at Hyde Park as the fullback in the backfield with College Football Hall of Fame inductee Walter Eckersall. Hyde Park was undefeated for two years with Eckersall and Hammond in the backfield, and both were selected as All-City players by the Chicago Daily Tribune for 1902. Hammond was captain of the 1902 Hyde Park football team and was recruited to play football by both Amos Alonzo Stagg of the University of Chicago and Yost of Michigan. In 1903, Hammond enrolled at the University of Michigan and played football on Fielding Yosts famed Point-a-Minute football teams from 1903 to 1905. During those years, the Michigan football team compiled a record of 33–1–1, Hammond was a versatile athlete, playing both defense and offense, and at the end, halfback, fullback and tackle positions for Yosts football teams. In his first year at Michigan, Hammond led the team in scoring with 163 points on 15 touchdowns,63 goals after touchdown and his 1903 point total was more than double that of any other player, including College Football Hall of Fame inductee Willie Heston. With an additional 88 points scored in 1904 and 109 points in 1905, in June 1905, doubts were raised as to whether Hammond would return to play football for Michigan. Coach Yost told the press, Tom is a law student but is only taking law as a sort of line to his business career. He has gotten the knowledge that he needs and is anxious to join his father in the work of making money. His father is ready to give him the start he wants and, Hammond did return to complete his studies in 1905 and played a third season for Yosts football team. In November 1905, Colliers Weekly published an article by E. S. Jordan making allegations of improprieties in Michigans football program, the recruitment of Hammond was alleged to be the most flagrant case of proselyting that has come to the attention of Western educators
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John Garrels
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John Carlyle Johnny Garrels was an American athlete who excelled in the 110 metres hurdles, discus throw, shot put, and as a fullback and end in American football. Garrels won the medal in the mens 110 metres hurdles. On at least four occasions, he broke records in the discus throw and 110 metres hurdles. He was also a left end and fullback for the 1904,1905. In 1932, Keene Fitzpatrick, who trained multiple Olympic gold medalists, after retiring from athletics, Garrels worked as a chemical engineer. He was a director at Wyandotte Chemical Company for 27 years. He died in 1956 at Grosse Ile Township, Michigan, Garrels was born in Bay City, Michigan in 1885. He attended Central High School in Detroit, Michigan, serving as class president, in March 1903, Garrels won the all-round indoor championship of the YMCA at a meet held in Detroit. At age 17, Garrels scored 21 points at the meet with first place finishes in the vault, running high kick, hop, step and jump. Garrels enrolled at the University of Michigan in 1903 and received a degree in engineering in 1907. While attending Michigan, Garrels became one of the most accomplished athletes in the universitys history and he excelled as a member of Michigans football teams from 1904 to 1906 and as a member of its track and field team from 1904 to 1907. He was also a member of the Tau Beta Pi fraternity, in April 1904, Garrels, while still a freshman, demonstrated his ability by throwing the discus around 118 and 119 feet—a distance that would have won the event at the prior weeks Philadelphia meet. Garrels announced at the time that he intended to make a specialty of the discus throw. In April 1905, while competing at a meet in Philadelphia, Garrels threw the discus a distance of 135 feet and one-half inch, however, AAU officials ruled that the discus used by Garrels did not comply strictly with AAU regulations. At that meet, Garrels threw the discus 140 feet, 2-3/8 inches, the Detroit Free Press wrote that the AAU was a discredited organization and led its coverage of the ruling with a headline declaring, GARRELS AGAIN ROBBED OF HONORS, A. A. U. At the Western Conference meet in June 1906, Garrels won 18 points -- more than any college team outside of Michigan. Under the AAU rules in effect at the time, all hurdles must be standing at the end of the race, Garrels time did qualify, however, as a new Western Conference record. Following the 1906 conference meet, Garrels was elected captain of the 1907 track team and his point total was the highest of any athlete at the meet
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Henry Schulte
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Henry Frank Schulte was an American football player and coach and also a college track and field coach. Schulte was often referred to by the nickname Indian Schulte, though he was of German rather than Native American descent, Schulte was born in 1879 in St. Louis County, Missouri. Schulte played football at Smith Academy in St. Louis and then at Washington University in St. Louis, in response to the controversy, the faculty at Michigan ruled Schulte and two other football players, Germany Schulz and Walter Rheinschild, academically ineligible. As a result, Schulte missed the 1906 season, in his senior year at Michigan, Schulte began a long career in coaching as the track coach at Michigan State Normal College. From 1906 to 1908, Schulte served as coach of the football, baseball, in three years as Eastern Michigans football coach, Schulte compiled a 9–6–1 record. From 1909 to 1913, Schulte coached at Cape Girardeau College in Missouri and he was also an assistant coach to Fielding Yost for the 1912 Michigan Wolverines football team. From 1914 to 1919, Schulte coached football and track and field at Missouri, in three years as coach of the football team, he compiled a 16–14–2 record. The track athletes he coached at Missouri included Jackson Scholz and Bob Simpson and he has turned out well coached football teams and highly successful track teams. He has given Missouri in a coaching way what C. L. Brewer has supplied in the way of careful management, Schulte, an impulsive, impetuous fellow, is beloved of his boys. He has done much for Missouri athletics and he is entitled to the best Missouri can give him. From 1919 to 1920, he was the football coach at Nebraska. He also served as the track coach from 1919 to 1938. One newspaper columnist noted that his work with the big, sturdy plainsmen of the Cornhusker state largely was responsible for the name the school built for itself, in 20 years as the Cornhuskers track coach, Schulte coached his teams to 15 conference titles. Schulte also served as a coach on the U. S. track team at the 1928 Summer Olympics, at Nebraska, the track athletes coached by Schulte included Ed Weir, John Choppy Rhodes, Hugh Rhea, Sam Francis and Lloyd Cardwell. In later years, Schulte served as an instructor at coaching schools, in 1934, Schulte taught track coaching at a program in which Fritz Crisler also taught football coaching. It was the opinion of numerous coaches yesterday that the Texas Tech coaching school authorities would do well to sign Schulte immediately for another course next year. One of the most popular lecturers to appear here, Schulte, in 1939, Schulte resigned as Nebraskas track coach due to illness. After several years of illness, Schulte died at Lincoln, Nebraska in October 1944 at age 65, in its obituary for Schulte, the Associated Press referred to Schulte as the grand old man of the University of Nebraska track teams
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Germany Schulz
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Adolph George Germany Schulz was an All-American American football center for the University of Michigan Wolverines from 1904 to 1905 and from 1907 to 1908. While playing at Michigan, Schulz is credited with having invented the spiral snap, as the first lineman to play in back of the line on defense, he is credited as footballs first linebacker. Schulz was 21 years old when he enrolled at Michigan and had worked in an Indiana steel mill, Michigan was refused re-entry into the Western Conference in 1908 when it insisted on playing the 25-year-old Schulz for a fourth season in violation of conference eligibility rules. Despite the controversies, Schulz is remembered both as an innovator and one of the toughest football players in the days of the game. He has also inducted into the Michigan Sports Hall of Fame. After his days as a collegiate athlete ended, Schulz assumed a variety of assistant coaching, athletic director and he eventually entered the insurance industry, where he enjoyed a long career. He died in 1951, several days after being named the greatest center in football history by the College Football Foundation, Schulz was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, the son of German immigrants. His father, Adolph F. Schulz, Sr. was a doctor who was born in 1854, the couple emigrated from Germany to the United States in 1880 with their infant daughter Wilhelmina. Schulz also had two brothers, Fred Schulz and Arthur Schulz, both of whom became doctors, Schulz played football for Fort Wayne High School and was also a member of amateur city teams for several years. In 1904, Schulz enrolled at the University of Michigan at age 21, standing 6 ft 2 in, in the early 1900s, many decried the increasing recruitment of ringers—older, experienced players whose qualifications as student athletes were suspect. Michigans coach, Fielding H. Yost, whose teams outscored their opponents 2,821 to 42 between 1901 and 1905, had accused of using ringers before. When Yost accepted the coaching job at Michigan, he had recruited his star player, 23-year-old Willie Heston. When the 21-year-old Schulz joined the team, there were suggestions that he was Yosts newest ringer, the suspicions were exacerbated by reports that Schulz was a factory worker in an Indiana steel mill who had played for a half-dozen professional teams before enrolling at Michigan. Until the time of his death, reports of his having been a ringer angered Schulz, while he did work in a steel mill, Schulz insisted that he did not come out of the steel mill to play football. Instead, Schulz said he went into the mill to harden himself up for the football season. When asked years later how he got to Michigan, Schulz recalled that, in the summer of 1904, one day, his father called to say that Fielding Yost of Michigan was in his office. Schulz ran down the street and rushed into his fathers office and his father promptly told him, Adolph, this is Mr. Yost. You are to football for him at Michigan
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Fred Norcross
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Fred Stephenson Norky Norcross, Jr. was an American football player and coach and mining engineer. He was the quarterback for the University of Michigan from 1903 to 1905, Norcross was the head football coach Oregon State University, then known as Oregon Agricultural College, from 1906 to 1908. He also served as a major in the U. S. Army, Norcross was born in Menominee in Michigans Upper Peninsula in July 1884. His father, Fred S. Norcross, Sr. was a native of Maine and his mother, Addie Maria Norcross, was also a native of Maine. At the time of the 1900 United States Census, Norcross was living with his parents and his grandfathers occupation was listed as capitalist, and his fathers as co-treasurer. Norcross served as Presidend of the 1906 Engineering Class and he ran track and played football at Michigan from 1903–1905. While at Michigan, Norcross played quarterback for the legendary Fielding H. Yost, in his three seasons as a player, the Wolverines were 33–1–1 and claimed national championships in 1903 and 1904. Norcross was named the captain in 1905. Norcross received a BS in Engineering from the University of Michigan in 1906, at the conclusion of his playing career, Norcross came to Corvallis, Oregon to become the head football coach at Oregon Agricultural College. Oregon Agricultural had begun their search for a coach in April and this decision, however, turned out very well for the school. In his three seasons as the coach from 1906 to 1908, Norcross posted an overall record of 14–4–3. In his first 72 quarters as coach, his team gave up 4 points. The 1907 season was by far his best and possibly the schools best ever. The team went 6–0, scored 137 points, gave up no points and this perfect season has never, and most likely will never be repeated. After one year as a football coach, Norcross began a lengthy career in the mining business. By May 1909 he was the assistant superintendent of Gale Creek Coal, the 1910 United States Census shows Norcross still living there listed as a mining engineer. From April 1912 to December 1917, Norcross lived in Greenwood and later Princeton and he worked at mining areas in British Columbia, Mexico and New Mexico. During World War I, from 1917 to 1919, Norcross served as a major in the U. S. Army, in May 1921, he applied for a passport to allow him to travel to Panama and Nicaragua as a mine examiner
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James DePree
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James J. D. DePree, also known as Jim DePree, was an American football player and coach of football and baseball. He was the head coach for the University of Tennessee Volunteers football team, coaching the 1905 and 1906 seasons. While at Tennessee, he started the schools first basketball team, depree married Fannie Wilson of Knoxville, Tennessee, who bore his three sons. He was born in Holland, Michigan in 1879 and died in Sarasota, DePree was a letterman in football from the University of Michigan. James DePree at the College Football Data Warehouse
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Wisconsin Badgers football
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The Wisconsin Badgers football team is the intercollegiate football team of University of Wisconsin–Madison. The Badgers have competed in the Big Ten Conference since its formation in 1896 and they play their home games at Camp Randall Stadium, the fourth-oldest stadium in college football. Wisconsin has had two Heisman Trophy winners, Alan Ameche and Ron Dayne, and have had nine former players inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame, as of January 2,2017, the Badgers have an all-time record of 685–489–53. The teams nickname originates in the history of Wisconsin. In the 1820s and 1830s, prospectors came to the looking for minerals. Without shelter in the winter, the miners had to live like badgers in tunnels burrowed into hillsides, the first Badger football team took the field in 1889, losing the only two games it played that season. In 1890, Wisconsin earned its first victory with a 106–0 drubbing of Whitewater Normal School, however, the very next week the Badgers suffered what remains their most lopsided defeat, a humiliating 63–0 loss at the hands of the University of Minnesota. Since then, the Badgers and Gophers have met 122 times, upon the formation of the Big Ten conference in 1896, Wisconsin became the first-ever conference champion with a 7–1–1 record. Over the next ten years, the Badgers won or shared the title three more times, and recorded their first undefeated season, going 9–0–0. With the exception of their undefeated season in 1912, in which they won their fifth Big Ten title. The 1912 season would be their last conference title until 1952, the team posted mostly winning seasons over the next several seasons however. 1942 was an important year for Wisconsin football, on October 24, the #6 ranked Badgers defeated the #1 ranked Ohio State Buckeyes at Camp Randall, catapulting Wisconsin to the #2 spot in the AP poll. Unfortunately for the Badgers, their championship hopes were dashed in a 6–0 defeat by the Iowa Hawkeyes the following week. Nevertheless, Wisconsin won the remainder of its games, finishing the season 8–1–1 and #3 in the AP, afterwards, the Badgers struggled to regain their momentum, with their efforts hampered by many of their star players leaving as a result of World War II. In the late 1940s, fans began insisting that head coach Harry Stuhldreher resign, many times chanting Goodbye Harry, especially during 1948, Stuhldreher stepped down as head coach, while keeping his duties as athletic director. Stuhldreher then named Ivy Williamson as head coach The Badgers experienced great success during the 1950s under Williamson, in one stretch, from 1950-1954, the Badgers went 26-8-3. In 1952, the received its first #1 ranking by the Associated Press. That season, the Badgers again claimed the Big Ten title, there they were defeated 7–0 by the Southern California, and would finish the season ranked #11 in the AP
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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
