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Penn Quakers football
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The Penn Quakers football team is the college football team at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Penn has played in 1,364 football games, the most of any school in any division, Penn plays its home games at historic Franklin Field, the oldest stadium in football. All Penn games are broadcast on WNTP or WFIL radio, Penn bills itself as college footballs most historic program. The Quakers have had 63 First Team All-Americans, and the college is the alma mater of John Heisman, the team has won a share of 7 national championships and competed in the granddaddy of them all in 1917. Penns total of 837 wins puts them 11th all-time in college football,18 members of the College Football Hall of Fame played at Penn and 5 members of the College Football Hall of Fame coached at Penn. Penn has had 11 unbeaten seasons, Penn is one of the few college football teams to have had an exclusive contract with a network for broadcasting all their home games. For the 1950 season, ABC Sports broadcast all of Penns home games, the only other teams to have exclusive contracts are Miami and Notre Dame. The Quakers competed as an independent until 1956, when they accepted the invitation to join the Ivy League. See, NCAA #Football television controversy Penn joined the Ivy League in 1956 when it was formed, Penn won its 1st Ivy League Football Championship in 1959. It was not until 1982,23 years later, that Penn would win its 2nd Ivy League Football Championship, since that year Penn has become a dominant football power in the Ivy League. They are tied with Dartmouth in winning a record 18 Ivy League Football Championships, Penn, however, is first in outright Ivy League titles, and first in undefeated Ivy League titles. NCAA record for most college football games played -1,364, NCAA record for consecutive overtime losses -3 games Most outright Ivy League titles -13, Highest number of unbeaten Ivy League seasons -8, Longest Ivy League winning streak -20 straight games. Penn also holds the next two Longest Ivy League win streaks, record 18 Ivy League Football Championships. Penns home stadium Franklin Field is not only the oldest stadium in football, brooke - Twice All-America, College football Hall of Fame. Outland - namesake of the Outland Trophy, College Football Hall of Fame Penns total of three major award winners surpasses several BCS programs to this day. A total of 51 players from Penn have been drafted in the NFL, including NFL Hall of Famers Chuck Bednarik and Bert Bell and NFL first-round pick Skip Minisi. List of Penn Quakers in the NFL Draft Penns rivalry with Cornell is the 5th-most played college football rivalry of all time and their first game was in 1893 and have played every year since, except in 1918. Penn leads in the series, 72–46–5, since the official formation of the Ivy League in 1956 Penn has won 31 games and Cornell has won 29 games
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Parke H. Davis
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Parke Hill Davis was an American football player, coach, and historian who retroactively named national championship teams in American college football from the 1869 through the 1932 seasons. He also named co-national champions at the conclusion of the 1933 season, Davis selections are included in the NCAAs official football record books, as the only championship teams chosen on the basis of research. Davis was a lineman for Princeton and a member of the Tigers tug-of-war team in 1889 before going on to coach at Wisconsin, Amherst and Lafayette and he displayed an admirable range of talents. The biggest win of the 1896 season came in Philadelphia against Pennsylvania on October 24, a standout for Lafayette was a newcomer named Fielding Hurry Up Yost. Yost began playing football at West Virginia University in 1894 at the age of 23, a 6-foot, 200-pounder, Yost was a star tackle at WVU into the 1896 season. He transferred in mid-season to join what would be Coach Davis national championship team, true to his nickname, just a week after playing against Davis in West Virginia, Hurry Up was playing for Davis in Lafayettes historic 6–4 win over the 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, Yost assured all concerned that he would return to Lafayette for at least three years of study. But 1897 found Hurry Up no longer a student or a player, in 1901, he was hired as head coach at the University of Michigan, beginning a storied 25-year, Hall of Fame career. After concluding his own career as a football coach, Davis became a prominent attorney in Easton, Pennsylvania. He lived there the rest of his life, in the October 1900 meeting of the Lafayette Democratic Club, Davis was the orator of the evening, after the group unanimously endorsed the national ticket of William Jennings Bryan. The ex-coach and loyal supporter of athletics of Lafayette served as an umpire in football games and as starter at the colleges track meets. Davis wrote an history of American football in 1911, tracing the sports origins to ancient times. abundant evidence may be marshalled to prove that this is the oldest outdoor game in existence. In the 22nd chapter of Isaiah is found the verse, He will turn and he helped select the 1913 College Football All-America Team while serving as Princetons representative on the American Intercollegiate Football Rules Committee. He served on the Rules Committee from 1909 to 1915, playing a key role in shaping the evolution of the game. Among the innovations with which he is credited are the division of the game into quarters, numbering of players, abolition of inter-locked interference, if the fumble is recovered behind an opponents goal line the ball shall be put in play at the point where it was fumbled. Davis was a friend and admirer of Walter Camp, Father of American Football, in a 1926 authorized biography of Camp, author Harford Powel, Jr
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Carl S. Williams
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Carl Sheldon Cap Williams was an American football player, coach, and ophthalmologist. He played college football at Oberlin College and the University of Pennsylvania during the 1890s and he returned to Penn and served as the head football coach there from 1902 to 1907, compiling a record of 60–10–4. His Penn Quakers teams of 1904 and 1907 have been recognized as national champions, Williams later practiced ophthalmology for many years in Philadelphia. William was born on May 16,1872 in Chatham, Ohio, a Wellington, Ohio native, he graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1894 with a bachelor of science and a medical degree in 1897. Williams played at Oberlin College in 1891 and 1892, the 1891 Yeoman played without a paid coach and went 2–2. The next year Williams was named captain and this team was coached by John Heisman. The Yeoman finished the season undefeated including an opening victory over Ohio State. Williams scored the first touchdown early in the game which would become a 40–0 route of the Buckeyes, during that season the Yoeman also claimed a second victory over the Buckeyes and a victory over the Michigan but both schools dispute this. On Heismans advise, Williams transferred to his coachs former school and he lettered three seasons at quarterback for the Red and Blue under renowned coach George Washington Woodruff. At the time Williams played quarterback under Woodruff, the pass was illegal. To advance the ball down the field, Woodruff coached his quarterback to pass the ball with his foot, the rules at the time were that anybody that kicked the ball or anybody behind the kicker was allowed to recover the ball and retain possession. Williams was able to place his kicks with great accuracy allow Penn to recover for a first down, in his first year as quarterback, he helped the 1893 Quakers to a 12–3 record. The team started strong by winning the first 11 game, in those 11 games the defense only gave up 18 points while the offence scored 305 points. The season collapsed in last four games when Penn lost three out of the last four games to Harvard, Yale and Princeton, at the time Penn rarely beat these three schools. All of the games were close and in losing the game 14–6 to Yale, Yale had been un-scored on for 35 straight games stretching from 1890, successively scoring 1,355 unanswered points. In 1894 Williams helped Penn to its first undefeated season, the 1894 team was retroactively named national champions by Parke H. Davis though Yale and Princeton were also retroactively named national champions by other organizations. The highlight of the season was a 12–0 victory over Princeton, the 1894 squad featured a talented backfield that consisted of Williams, Alden Knipe, George H. Brooke and Winchester Osgood. Williams was elected captain of the Penns 1895 team and was named an All American that year, as captain, he led Penn to another undefeated seasons and a second-consecutive retroactive national title
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Robert Torrey
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Bob Torrey was an American football player. He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1971, in 1905, Torrey helped the University of Pennsylvania claim an undefeated record, winning 12 and tying 1 game against Lafayette College, 6-6. When the Quakers went 12-0-0 in 1904, only Swarthmore College had been able to score against them, Torrey was considered one of the best linemen in 1905 and later won All-American honors. Maxwell reportedly continue to play until near the end of the game,1905,18 players died playing college football and 159 were seriously injured. A newspaper photo was taken of face, the photo then found its way to President Theodore Roosevelt. Bob Torrey, was the Penn player opposite of Maxwell that day, while several writers and scholars have made exhaustive searches for the photo of Maxwell’s battered face, none have ever been found. The 1960s and 1970s update of the Encyclopedia also continued to run the Maxwell-Roosevelt story, the Maxwell Football Club, formed by sportswriters and athletic officials to honor Maxwell, picked up the story and made it more credible. As a result, it became the official account of 1905 and was enshrined in Jack Falla’s history of the National Collegiate Athletic Association and at the College Football Hall of Fame. What is absolutely certain is that on October 9,1905, Teddy Roosevelt held a meeting of representatives from Harvard, Yale. Though he lectured on eliminating and reducing injuries, he never threatened to ban football or mentioned the Maxwell injury and he also lacked the authority to abolish football. In fact he was actually a fan of the game, the Presidents sons were also playing football at the college and secondary levels at the time
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Franklin Field
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Franklin Field is the home of the Penn Relays, and is the University of Pennsylvanias stadium for football, lacrosse and formerly for soccer, field hockey and baseball. It is also used by Penn students for recreation, and for intramural and club sports, including football and cricket. It is located in Philadelphia, at the edge of Penns campus. It was formerly the field of the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League. Franklin Field was built for $100,000 and dedicated on April 20,1895, deemed by the NCAA as the oldest stadium still operating for football, it was the site of the nations first scoreboard in 1895. Its location was given as 37th and Spruce. Permanent Franklin Field construction did not begin until after the turn of the century, weightman Hall gymnasium, the stadium, and permanent grandstands were designed by architect Frank Miles Day & Brother and were erected from 1903 to 1905 at a cost of $500,000. The field was 714 feet long and 443 feet wide, the site featured a ¼-mile track, a football field, and a baseball diamond. Beneath the stands were indoor tracks and indoor training facilities, plans called for a new train station called Union Station which would feature a Pennsylvania Railroad stop and a stop on a proposed elevated subway line connected to the Market–Frankford Line. Architecture firm Koronski & Cameron created a rendering but plans quickly collapsed, five years later, it was decided instead to expand Franklin Field. The current stadium structure was built in the 1920s, designed by Day & Klauder, after the wooden bleachers were torn down. The lower tier was erected in 1922, the old wood stands were razed immediately following the Penn Relays and the new concrete lower tier and seating for 50,000 were built. The second tier was added in 1925, again designed by Day & Klauder, the first football radio broadcast originated from Franklin Field in 1922. It was carried by Philadelphia station WIP and this claim is pre-empted by an earlier live radio broadcast emanating from Forbes Field in Pittsburgh, on October 8,1921, a full year before Franklin Fields claim to fame. Harold W. Arlin announced the live broadcast of the Pitt-West Virginia football game on October 8,1921, the first commercial football television broadcast in 1939 also came from Franklin Field. In the universitys football heyday — when Penn led the nation in attendance — the 65, today, Franklin Field, named after Penns founder, Benjamin Franklin, seats 52,958. Franklin Field switched from grass to AstroTurf in 1969 and it was the first National Football League stadium to use artificial turf. The stadiums fifth AstroTurf surface was installed in 1993, the current Sprinturf field replaced the AstroTurf in 2004
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University of Pennsylvania
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The University of Pennsylvania is a private Ivy League research university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Incorporated as The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, Penn is one of 14 founding members of the Association of American Universities, the university coat of arms features a dolphin on the red chief, adopted directly from the Franklin familys own coat of arms. Penn was one of the first academic institutions to follow a multidisciplinary model pioneered by several European universities and it was also home to many other educational innovations. The first school of medicine in North America, the first collegiate school. With an endowment of $10.72 billion, Penn had the seventh largest endowment of all colleges in the United States, all of Penns schools exhibit very high research activity. In fiscal year 2015, Penns academic research budget was $851 million, over its history, the university has also produced many distinguished alumni. S. House of Representatives,8 signers of the United States Declaration of Independence, in addition, some 30 Nobel laureates,169 Guggenheim Fellows, and 80 members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, have been affiliated with Penn. In addition, Penn has produced a significant number of Fortune 500 CEOs, in 1740, a group of Philadelphians joined together to erect a great preaching hall for the traveling evangelist George Whitefield, who toured the American colonies delivering open air sermons. The building was designed and built by Edmund Woolley and was the largest building in the city at the time and it was initially planned to serve as a charity school as well, however, a lack of funds forced plans for the chapel and school to be suspended. According to Franklins autobiography, it was in 1743 when he first had the idea to establish an academy, however, Peters declined a casual inquiry from Franklin and nothing further was done for another six years. Unlike the other Colonial colleges that existed in 1749—Harvard, William and Mary, Yale, Franklin assembled a board of trustees from among the leading citizens of Philadelphia, the first such non-sectarian board in America. At the first meeting of the 24 members of the Board of Trustees the issue of where to locate the school was a prime concern. The original sponsors of the dormant building still owed considerable construction debts and asked Franklins group to assume their debts and, accordingly, on February 1,1750 the new board took over the building and trusts of the old board. On August 13,1751, the Academy of Philadelphia, using the hall at 4th and Arch Streets. A charity school also was chartered July 13,1753 in accordance with the intentions of the original New Building donors, June 16,1755, the College of Philadelphia was chartered, paving the way for the addition of undergraduate instruction. All three schools shared the same Board of Trustees and were considered to be part of the same institution, the institution of higher learning was known as the College of Philadelphia from 1755 to 1779. In 1779, not trusting then-provost the Rev. William Smiths Loyalist tendencies, the result was a schism, with Smith continuing to operate an attenuated version of the College of Philadelphia. In 1791 the Legislature issued a new charter, merging the two institutions into a new University of Pennsylvania with twelve men from each institution on the new Board of Trustees
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Philadelphia
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In 1682, William Penn, an English Quaker, founded the city to serve as capital of the Pennsylvania Colony. Philadelphia was one of the capitals in the Revolutionary War. In the 19th century, Philadelphia became an industrial center. It became a destination for African-Americans in the Great Migration. The areas many universities and colleges make Philadelphia a top international study destination, as the city has evolved into an educational, with a gross domestic product of $388 billion, Philadelphia ranks ninth among world cities and fourth in the nation. Philadelphia is the center of activity in Pennsylvania and is home to seven Fortune 1000 companies. The Philadelphia skyline is growing, with a market of almost 81,900 commercial properties in 2016 including several prominent skyscrapers. The city is known for its arts, culture, and rich history, Philadelphia has more outdoor sculptures and murals than any other American city. Fairmount Park, when combined with the adjacent Wissahickon Valley Park in the watershed, is one of the largest contiguous urban park areas in the United States. The 67 National Historic Landmarks in the city helped account for the $10 billion generated by tourism, Philadelphia is the only World Heritage City in the United States. Before Europeans arrived, the Philadelphia area was home to the Lenape Indians in the village of Shackamaxon, the Lenape are a Native American tribe and First Nations band government. They are also called Delaware Indians and their territory was along the Delaware River watershed, western Long Island. Most Lenape were pushed out of their Delaware homeland during the 18th century by expanding European colonies, Lenape communities were weakened by newly introduced diseases, mainly smallpox, and violent conflict with Europeans. Iroquois people occasionally fought the Lenape, surviving Lenape moved west into the upper Ohio River basin. The American Revolutionary War and United States independence pushed them further west, in the 1860s, the United States government sent most Lenape remaining in the eastern United States to the Indian Territory under the Indian removal policy. In the 21st century, most Lenape now reside in the US state of Oklahoma, with communities living also in Wisconsin, Ontario. The Dutch considered the entire Delaware River valley to be part of their New Netherland colony, in 1638, Swedish settlers led by renegade Dutch established the colony of New Sweden at Fort Christina and quickly spread out in the valley. In 1644, New Sweden supported the Susquehannocks in their defeat of the English colony of Maryland
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Franklin & Marshall College
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Franklin & Marshall College is a private co-educational residential liberal arts college in the Northwest Corridor neighborhood of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States. It employs 175 full-time faculty members and has a student body of approximately 2,324 full-time students, F&M was ranked 37 on U. S. News & World Reports 2014 list of liberal arts colleges. The New York Times ranked F&M 26th in a ranking of The Most Economically Diverse Top Colleges in 2014, in 2011 F&M was ranked as the 4th Most Rigorous College/University on Newsweeks The Daily Beast. Forbes 2009 list of Americas Best Colleges ranked the school 36th overall and it was also ranked #1 in the nation for Faculty accessibility by The Princeton Review in 2003. The college is a member of the Centennial Conference, for the Class of 2012 Admissions Cycle, the acceptance rate dropped to 35. 9%, making it F&Ms most selective class yet while increasing the admissions profile. The average SAT score is 1311, which combines the Critical Reading, the average class size is 19 students, and the student-faculty ratio is 9,1. Franklin College was chartered on June 6,1787, in Lancaster and it was named for Benjamin Franklin, who donated £200 to the new institution. Its first trustees included five signers of the Declaration of Independence, the schools first courses were taught on July 16,1787, with instruction taking place in both English and German, making it the first bilingual college in the United States. Franklin College was also Americas first coeducational institution, with its first class of students composed of 78 men and 36 women, among the latter was Richea Gratz, the first Jewish female college student in the United States. However, the policy was soon abandoned and it would take 182 years before women were again permitted to enroll in the school. In July 1789, Franklin College ran into difficulty as its annual tuition of four pounds was not enough to cover operating costs. Enrollment began to dwindle to just a few students and eventually the college existed as nothing more than a meeting of the Board of Trustees. In an effort to help the school, an academy was established in 1807. For the next three decades, Franklin College and Franklin Academy managed to limp along financially, with instructors supplementing their income with private tutoring, in 1835, the schools Debating Society was renamed Diagnothian Literary Society at the suggestion of seminary student Samuel Reed Fisher. In June of that year, Diagnothian was divided into two friendly rivals to encourage debate, Diagnothian retained its original name, while the new society was named Goethean, in honor of German philosopher and poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The two organizations sponsored orations and debated politics, philosophy and literature and they merged in 1955, but became separate entities again in 1989. The Diagnothian Society is the oldest student organization on campus, having grown from a Reformed Church academy, Marshall College opened in 1836 in Mercersburg, Pennsylvania. The school was named for the fourth Chief Justice of the United States John Marshall and it was founded with the belief that harmony between knowledge and will was necessary to create a well-rounded person
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Lehigh Mountain Hawks football
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The Lehigh Mountain Hawks football program represents Lehigh University in college football. Lehigh competes as the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision level as members of the Patriot League, the Mountain Hawks play their home games at Goodman Stadium in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Andy Coen has served as the head coach since 2006. The program ranks 40th all-time in terms of wins with 680 for a percentage of 56%. Since 1945, the era, Lehigh has won at a 60% pace. Their won loss record against Lafayette since this time is also 60%, the Lehigh football program officially began in 1883 when student J. S. Robeson organized a football team to play against the University of Pennsylvanias sophomore class team. Athlete and future journalist Richard Harding Davis was a part of that squad, J. S. Robeson is the father of football at Lehigh, Davis recalled for the Lehigh Quarterly of 1891. In 1884, Lehighs intercollegiate team was formed, and Lafayette team captain Theodore Welles immediately approached Robeson to challenge them, at the start of the 2011 season, Lehigh is ranked among the institutions that have played the most games, compiled the most victories. Since 1986, Lehigh has been a member of the Patriot League. Lehigh has won ten Patriot League titles and has played in 20 post season games, along the way, Lehigh has won a Division II National Championship and has been national runner up in the I-AA tournament in 1979. Following the founding of the team, Lehigh, then known as the Engineers, was guided for the first eight years by volunteer coaches, the teams won 123 of those first 276 games, playing an average about 9 games per season. Lehigh’s first really successful period came in 1912 when Tom Keady was hired as head coach, during this period, Lehigh’s program grew stronger and the team moved into its new home, Taylor Stadium. Taylor Stadium would serve as the home for Lehigh football for 73 seasons Along with the Yale Bowl and Harvard Stadium, keady’s teams would go 55–22–3 during his nine years as head coach and produce many fine players, including All American quarterback Pat Pazzetti. The years between the end of World War I and the end of World War II were somewhat poor ones for Lehigh, seven coaches came and went, managing a record of 73–124–17 during this time. Better days were coming though, in the form of a head coach named William Leckonby. Leckonby arrived in time for the 1946 season and within a year, had the fortunes reversed, Leckonby’s teams won 16 of their next 27 from 1947–1949. This set the table for Lehigh’s first undefeated season,1950 and that team went 9–0, defeating Delaware, Carnegie Tech and Lafayette by a combined 125 –0. Overall, the team outscored opponents by a score of 301 –77, the team was led by the backfield tandem of Dick Gabriel and Dick Doyne
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Gettysburg College
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Gettysburg College is a private, four-year liberal arts college founded in 1832, in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States, adjacent to the famous battlefield. The 225-acre campus is located at 300 North Washington Street in the Northwest corner of the town, known as the Bullets, the school hosts 24 NCAA Division III mens and womens teams, with a large number of club, intramural, and recreational programs. Gettysburg College has about 2,700 students, with equal numbers of men and women. Gettysburg students come from 43 states and 35 countries, in 2012, U. S. News & World Report ranked it 46th among Best Liberal Arts Colleges. In 2015, the Princeton Review ranked Gettysburg College as the 11th in its list of the Best Schools for Internships and its also consistently rated as one of the most beautiful campuses in the United States, due to its close proximity to the Gettysburg Battlefield National Park. The college is the home of The Gettysburg Review, a literary magazine, Gettysburg College was founded in 1832, as a sister institution for the Lutheran Theological Seminary. Both owe their inception to Thaddeus Stevens, a Radical Republican, the colleges original name was Pennsylvania College, it was founded by Samuel Simon Schmucker. The school had money troubles within four years, forcing all founding members to leave their posts, after a failed agreement to combine with the Philadelphia College of Medicine in 1858, the college was forced to close the medical school in 1861. Students from the southern states had withdrawn to return home. In June 1863, southern Pennsylvania was invaded by Confederate forces during the Gettysburg Campaign, many local militia forces were formed around the area between Chambersburg and Philadelphia to face the oncoming foe. Among these units was Gettysburgs 26th Pennsylvania Emergency Militia Regiment, composed mostly of students from the College and Seminary, the 26th PEMR was mustered into service on June 22,1863. Four days later, the students saw combat just north of town, casualties were light on both sides, but about 100 of the militiamen were captured and paroled. During the Battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania Hall, or Old Dorm, was used as both a signal station and field hospital. Due to the position it held, it was used by both Confederate and Union troops during the battle for signal work and surgery. On November 19,1863, College President Henry Louis Baugher gave the benediction at the opening the National Soldiers’ Cemetery at Gettysburg. Classes were canceled at the college as students and faculty to hear the now famous Address, Henry Baugher was the president of Gettysburg College from 1850 until his death in 1868. Early in his career, Dwight D. Eisenhower and his wife, Mamie. Both were fond of the town, so decided to retire to a working farm adjacent to the battlefield after he left the army
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Brown Bears football
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The team competes in the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision and are members of the Ivy League. Browns first football team was fielded in 1878, the team plays its home games at the 20,000 seat Brown Stadium in Providence, Rhode Island. The Bears are coached by Phil Estes, in the middle of the 1926 season, the “Iron Men” came into being when the same 11 players played against Yale for 60 minutes and a 7-0 win. The next week the same 11 players played without substitution against Dartmouth, two weeks later the Iron Men played 58 minutes against Harvard, but in the last two minutes the substitutes came in to earn their letters. Brown won all its games that year until the Thanksgiving game against Colgate ended in a 10-10 tie, in the 1948 season, Brown fans were the originators of the popular de-fense. Chant that spread to the NFL in the 1950s, Brown has 607 wins making them tied for 72nd all time in wins amongst division one football programs. John W. Heisman Tuss McLaughry Frederick D. Pollard Eddie N, the Bears have won the Ivy League title four times in their history. The Bears won their first Ivy League title in 1976, sharing it with Yale while finishing 8-1 on the season, in 1999, the Bears went 9-1, while beating Columbia 23-6 to share the Ivy League title with Yale. In 2005, the Bears finished 9-1, beating Columbia 52-21 in their game in order to clinch their first ever outright Ivy League title. In 2008, the Bears finished 7-3, beating Columbia 41-10 to clinch a share of the Ivy League title, their fourth conference title. The first game in the series occurred in 1893, browns record versus Harvard is 30-84-2. During recent decades the respective squads meet annually the first weekend of the Ivy League football season, Brown has a 31-57-4 record versus Dartmouth. Beginning in 2018 Brown will play New England Ivy League rival Dartmouth in their final game
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Columbia Lions football
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The Columbia Lions football program is the intercollegiate American football team for Columbia University located in the U. S. state of New York. The team competes in the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision and are members of the Ivy League, Columbia played in what is generally regarded as the fourth college football game on November 12,1870 against Rutgers University in New Jersey. This was the first interstate football game ever played, the first three college football games were played between Princeton and Rutgers in 1869 and 1870. Columbia plays its games at the 17,000 seat Wien Stadium in Inwood, Manhattan. The school struggled for most of the 19th century, and it was not until after the turn of the century to which the team would have any success. The program was more successful in the first half of the 20th century. The 1915 squad went undefeated and untied, the 1933 Lions won an unofficial national championship by upsetting the top-ranked Stanford Indians 7–0 in the Rose Bowl on New Years Day. Lou Little, who coached the team from 1930 to 1956, is in the College Football Hall of Fame, in the fifth game of the 1983 season, they won 21–18 over Yale. After that game, they did not win a game again for almost five years, the streak began with a tie with Bucknell in the following game, and ending the season with a loss to Holy Cross, a tie with Dartmouth, and losses to Cornell and Brown. The losing streak was so bad, that at one point, when the team out on the field. After their 35th loss, they set the record for the longest Division I losing streak in history, after this game, Larry McElreavy, the current coach at the time told reporters, Im realistic, theres not a lot of talent here. ESPN rated the 1983–1988 Lions teams at 4th in its list of the top 10 worst college football teams of all time. The streak was broken on October 8,1988, with a 16–13 victory over archrival Princeton after a field goal attempt by the Tigers late in the game. Matthew Fox most notably played on the 88 team and that was the Lions first victory at Wien Stadium, which was already four years old, having been opened during the streak. Pro Football Hall of Famer Sid Luckman played his college ball at Columbia, Luckman is also in the College Football Hall of Fame. One famous Lion that had limited success on the field but more success in life was writer Jack Kerouac left school, another Lions back who became legendary for his accomplishments off the gridiron was baseball great Lou Gehrig, who was a two-sport star at Columbia. The Lions have just one Ivy League conference title, which won in 1961. The Columbia Lions and the Cornell Big Red, the only two Ivy League teams in New York, have met 103 times since 1889 and they dedicated the Empire State Bowl in 2010
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Harvard Stadium
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Harvard Stadium is a U-shaped football stadium in the Allston neighborhood of Boston, in the United States. Built in 1903, it was an execution of reinforced concrete in the construction of large structures. Because of its importance in these areas, and its influence on the design of later stadiums. The Stadium is owned and operated by Harvard University and is home to the Harvard Crimson football program and it was also home for the New England Patriots in the 1970 season, their first after the AFL–NFL merger, before the completion of Foxboro Stadium. The stadium seated up to 57,166 in the past and they were torn down after the 1951 season due to deterioration and reduced attendance. Afterwards, there were smaller temporary steel bleachers across the end of the stadium until the building of the Murr Center in 1998. The structure, similar in shape to the Panathenaic Stadium, was completed in just 4½ months costing $310,000, much of the funds raised came from a 25th Reunion gift by Harvards Class of 1879. It is the home of the team of Harvard. The stadium also hosted the Crimson track and field teams until 1984 and was the home of the Boston Patriots during the 1970 season, lewis Jerome Johnson, Prof. Civil Engineering, Harvard University, was a consultant to the design team for the Harvard Stadium. It is historically significant that this represents the first vertical concrete structure to employ reinforced structural concrete. Prior to the erection of the stadium in 1902, reinforced concrete was used in horizontal. Prof. Johnson was the engineer of note responsible for incorporating the concept into the structure of the stadium design. There is a plaque dedicating the stadium to his honor on the east end wall outside the stadium, in 2006, Harvard installed both FieldTurf and lights. On September 22,2007, Harvard played its first night game at the stadium, against Brown University, in the early 20th century, American football was an extremely violent sport. 18 players died and 159 were seriously injured in 1905 alone, there was a widespread movement to outlaw the game entirely but U. S. President Theodore Roosevelt intervened and demanded that the rules of the game be reformed. In 1906, Roosevelt met with representatives from 62 colleges and universities and formed the Intercollegiate Football Conference, the purpose of the committee was to develop a uniform set of rules and regulations to make the game safer. A leading proposal, at the time, was widening the field to allow more running room, while it was very popular among committee members, Harvard objected. Their recently completed stadium could not accommodate a larger field, because of the permanent nature of Harvard Stadium, the proposal was rejected and the forward pass was legalized in April,1906
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Allston
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Allston is a neighborhood of Boston, located in the western part of the city. It was named after the American painter and poet Washington Allston and it comprises the land covered by the zip code 02134. For the most part, Allston is administered collectively with the adjacent neighborhood of Brighton, the two are often referred to together as Allston–Brighton. Boston Police Department District D-14 covers the Allston-Brighton area and a Boston Fire Department Allston station is located in Union Square which houses Engine 41, Engine 41 is nicknamed The Bull to commemorate the historic stockyards of Allston. Lower Allston, across the Massachusetts Turnpike from the rest of Allston, the estimated population of Allston is 29,196, according to the 2010 Census. The median home cost is $317,000, a decline of 0. 97% in the last year, the cost of living is 9. 81% higher than the national average. The population density is 18, 505/mi2, about 50% higher than the average of 12,166. 76. 45% of residents list status as single, Allston is home to many immigrant populations, the largest groups being from Russia, East Asia, South Asia, and South America. Young adults make up 78. 3% of the neighborhoods population, in addition to nightly dancing and live music at area bars, house parties abound on surrounding streets, particularly during the school year. This has long been a point among other Allston residents. The largest religious affiliation is Catholic, followed by Protestant, unspecified Christian, Jewish, Baptist, the neighborhood of Allston is almost completely cut off from the main body of the city of Boston by the town of Brookline, which borders Allston on the south and southeast. It is connected to the rest of Boston only by a portion of its eastern border that is shared with the Fenway/Kenmore neighborhood. Allston is bordered on the east and north by the Charles River, separating it from the city of Cambridge, the area north of the turnpike near the Charles river is North Allston. It consists of north of Cambridge Street and the Turnpike. It extends westward to Everett Street and eastward to the Charles River, in its center is Allston Square at the crossroads of Western Avenue and North Harvard Street. Allston is named for the painter and 1800 Harvard graduate, Washington Allston. Allston Square is appropriately located halfway between Harvard Square in the North and Allston Village, Bostons Greenwich Village in the South, Allston is the only community in America named for an artist. North Allston is a neighborhood that consists of a mix of young professionals, blue-collar tradesmen, members of the educational community, homeowners
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Lafayette Leopards football
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The Lafayette Leopards football program represents Lafayette College in college football. One of the oldest college football programs in the United States, Fielding their first team in 1882, Lafayette has won three college football national championships, seven Patriot League championships, six undefeated seasons and four undefeated, untied seasons. For most of its history, Lafayette played an independent schedule until joining the Patriot League in 1986, between 1929 and 1975, the Leopards were a part of an unofficial conference, the “Middle Three Conference, ” which consisted of Rutgers University and Lehigh University. Today, Lafayette is most noted for its fierce arch-rivalry with Lehigh, which is the most played rivalry in college football and the most consecutive years played. ESPN considers The Rivalry to be among the top ten in college football, aside from Lehigh and Rutgers, Lafayette’s primary rivals are Bucknell University and the University of Pennsylvania. Lafayette has produced four consensus All-Americans,11 FCS All-Americans, four College Football Hall of Fame players, Lafayette is also credited with inventing the huddle during a game in which Pennsylvania was stealing hand signals. Lafayettes nickname is the Leopards, dating from October 21,1924, in its early history, the students, alumni, and press referred to the team as the Maroon. The Leopards are still referred to as the Maroon or the Maroon. Currently, Lafayette has 650 wins, 33rd all-time in Division I, rugby football was first introduced on College Hill in the fall of 1880 by Theodore H. Welles. A member of the class of 1884, Welles brought football to Easton after learning the new game at Wilkes Barre Academy and Princeton University, H. R. Craven, who played and learned the sport at the Lawrenceville School, served as the first team captain. Early football at Lafayette was not organized, in 1880 and 1881, students competed against each other on campus. However, in the fall of 1882, Lafayette traveled to Rutgers to partake in its first intercollegiate football contest, on November 7,1882, Lafayette fell to Rutgers 0-0/8-3. One week later, Lafayette lost its second game ever against the University of Pennsylvania 0-0/1-3, although official records reflect only two games being played in 1882, Welles mentions playing Swarthmore College and the Stevens Institute of Technology on College Hill, winning both contests. With one season of football experience, Lafayette won its first game ever in 1883. After dropping its first three games to Princeton, Pennsylvania, and Stevens, Lafayette broke through against Rutgers on November 10, with four inches of slushy snow covering the Quad, Lafayette avenged the previous years defeat 25–0 with four touchdowns despite a water-logged ball. The first game of the 1884 brought a new team to Lafayettes schedule, located in nearby Bethlehem, Lehigh would be playing its first football game. With experience and superior skill on its side, Lafayette annihilated Lehigh 56–0 in what would become known as The Rivalry. Due to the proximity of the schools, Lafayette played a Lehigh as their last opponent in 1884, true animosity soon developed between both teams
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Otis Lamson
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Otis Floyd Lamson was an American football player and coach. He served as the football coach at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1907. Prior to his career, Lamson played college football while attending the University of Pennsylvania. He lettered for the Quakers in 1904 and 1905, in 1905, he earned All-American honors from Walter Camp. He was born in Beetown, Wisconsin in 1876, in 1906, Lamson was hired by the Massillon Tigers to play for the team in the Ohio League championship. During that two series, a betting scandal involving the Tigers and their rivial, the Canton Bulldogs. Blondy Wallace and the Biggest Football Scandal Ever, otis Lamson at the College Football Data Warehouse
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Frank Piekarski
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Frank Anthony Piekarski was an American football player and coach who later served as a judge in Pennsylvania. He attended the University of Pennsylvania, where he played football for the Penn Quakers as a guard from 1901 to 1904. Piekarski was a selection to the 1903 College Football All-America Team. He was among the first Polish-Americans to gain recognition in college football, following his graduation from Penn, Piekarski served as the head football coach at Washington & Jefferson College from 1905 to 1907, leading the Presidents to a record of 25–7 in three seasons. In 1914 he returned to his alma mater, Penn, as an assistant football coach in charge of the linemen under head coach George H. Brooke, in 1933, he became a judge in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. Piekarski died in 1951 at Pittsburgh Hospital in Pittsburgh, in 2005, he was named to the National Polish-American Sports Hall of Fame
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Andy Smith (American football)
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Andrew Latham Andy Smith was an American football player and coach. He served as the football coach at the University of Pennsylvania, Purdue University. As head coach of the California Golden Bears football program, Smith guided his Wonder Teams to a record of 74–16–7, captured five Pacific Coast Conference titles, Smith was the winningest football coach in school history until he was surpassed by Jeff Tedford in 2011. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1951, andrew Latham Smith was born in Dubois, Pennsylvania on September 10,1883. As a freshman, he played for Penn State as a fullback and he shined at his position, both fearless and dominating on the field. In two years, he was convinced to transfer to Pennsylvania, then a superior program, There, in his senior season of 1904, he was named first-team All America for the national champion Quakers. After college, he entered the workforce with a degree in chemistry, however, he returned to Penn in 1905 as the coach of the freshmen team and in 1909, when he was 26, he became the head coach of Penn. During the next four years he led Penn with a record of 30 wins,10 losses and 3 ties, following this success he switched to Purdue where during the next four years he went 12–6–3. The University of California had fielded a football team since 1886. However, in 1906 it began playing rugby instead of football and this was because by that time football became considered as dangerous sport that could lead to serious injuries. California switched back to football in 1915, this was due to the fact that by that time rule changes made the game considerably safer. Due to his reputation, Smith was recruited to come out west, in 1916, his first year at Cal, Smith posted 6 wins,4 losses and 3 ties. In 1918, Cal won its first Pacific Coast Conference championship, also in 1918 Smith hired future Cal football and basketball head coach Clarence Nibs Price as his assistant. Price had a southern California connection and was able to recruit key players to the team including Harold Brick Muller, the 1919 freshmen team went 11-1 and became the core of next years varsity squad, to be known as the Wonder Team. The 1920 Golden Bears team won all 9 games, outscored their opponents,510 to 14, the NCAA has officially recognized them as the national champion of that season, the first from the Pacific Coast. The Wonder Team at California in 1920 changed the picture of Western football. Next year the 1921 Golden Bears also finished undefeated and were invited to play in the Rose Bowl. Eventually Smith agreed to the match, with California being the overwhelming favorite, the match went nothing like it was expected
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Vince Stevenson
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Vincent Stevenson was an American football player. He played college football for the Penn Quakers in 1904 and 1905, in 1904, he earned All-American honors from Walter Camp, after leading his team to a 12–0 record, in which the Quakers outscored their opponents 222–4. In 1906, Stevenson played professionally for the Canton Bulldogs of the Ohio League, however he was injured his knee in the third game of the season and was replaced at quarterback by Twister Steinberg – until he was relieved by Jack Hayden. Stevenson tried to recover and rejoin the team, however the consensus was for him to sit out the remainder of the season. The injury prevented Stevenson from taking part in Cantons two game series, against the rival Massillon Tigers, that would result in a scandal, during the 1910s, he became a crewman on several trans-oceanic oil tankers. World War I was now taking place and these tankers were frequent targets for German U-boats, although he was reported missing on several occasions, he always showed up unharmed in some distant port. In 1949, while watching a game between Penn and Cornell, Stevenson proclaimed, I dont like this two-platoon business, showing his favor having players play on offense and defense. He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1968, blondy Wallace and the Biggest Football Scandal Ever. Vince Stevenson at the College Football Hall of Fame
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Garfield Weede
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Garfield Wilson Weede was a college football, track & field coach and athletic director in the United States. He was one of the first college coaches to break the color line, garfield Weede played football at the University of Pennsylvania as an end and placekicker. He was severely injured in a game on October 1905, under head coach Carl Sheldon Williams, the team was undefeated in 1904 with a record of 12–0–0 and has since retroactively been declared National Champions for that year. Weede was the head football coach for Washburn University in Topeka. He held the position for three seasons, from 1906 until 1908, and followed legendary John H. Outland, weedes coaching record at Washburn was 20 wins,6 losses, and 4 ties. As of the conclusion of the 2007 season, this ranks him eighth at Washburn in terms of total wins, Weede next became the head football coach for the Sterling Warriors located in Sterling, Kansas. He held that position for 9 seasons, from 1910 until 1918 and his coaching record at Sterling was 34 wins,30 losses and 4 ties. As of the conclusion of the 2012 season, this ranks him #3 at Sterling in total wins, in 1919, Doc Weede was hired as coach of all sports and director of athletics at Pittsburg Manual Training Normal in Pittsburg, Kansas. He coached the team to a 50–31–6 record from 1919 to 1928 including the schools first undefeated team in 1924. That year, his team was declared Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference champions, Doc Weede ended his football coaching career on a downturn, losing every game of his final season of 1928. His squad only scored in two of seven games and allowed a total of 113 points, Weede was inducted in the Kansas Sports Hall of Fame in 1961. Although he spent most of his time and efforts in college athletics, he also was a dentist, garfield Weede at the College Football Data Warehouse
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Fight on, Pennsylvania!
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Is the University of Pennsylvanias primary fight song. The songs lyrics were written by Ben S. McGiveran during his sophomore year, the music was composed by David Zoob. The copyright was held by the Houston Club, the chorus of Fight on, Pennsylvania. Is played by The University of Pennsylvania Band every time the Pennsylvania football team scores
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The University of Pennsylvania Band
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The University of Pennsylvania Band is among the most active collegiate band programs in the U. S. The organization is a part of the Department of Athletics at the University of Pennsylvania, like most of the other 50 performing arts groups on the Penn Campus, it has no affiliation with any academic department and is sponsored by the Vice Provosts Office for Undergraduate Life. Typically ranging between 80 and 100 members every year, it is among the largest and most active student-run organizations on campus, like most of the Ivy League Bands, the Penn Band is a scramble band. Founded in 1897, the Penn Band stands among the oldest college bands in the country, according to popular legend, the band began after a single cornet player named A. Felix DuPont played to the jeers of residents in the student quadrangle, a more understanding upperclassman, John Ammon, helped DuPont gather 27 volunteers who formed the schools first band. Its history is marked with a record of performance and achievement. In its first year, the Band performed twice for President William McKinley, as well as at the opening of Houston Hall, the organization later became an integral part of Penn sporting events—one of the first college bands to play regularly at sporting events. It has been a staple at historic Franklin Field and the Palestra, and campus traditions such as ‘Hey Day, ’ ‘Rowbottoms, ’, and Commencement ceremonies. Appearances during the 20th century include countless NCAA tournament games, the Macys Thanksgiving Day Parade, the 1964 New York Worlds Fair, and the Miss America Pageant Parade. In popular culture, Chuck Barris of Gong Show fame performed with the Band in 1977, the group has performed at the pleasure of many dignitaries and celebrities over its history in the context of celebrations on-campus and within the city of Philadelphia. This list includes Governor Ed Rendell, Vice President Al Gore, Grace Kelly, President Ronald Reagan, Bill Cosby, Lech Wałęsa, President Theodore Roosevelt, johnson, Peter Lynch, Dolly Parton, Dan Aykroyd, Chris Matthews, and Rudy Giuliani. By the 1970s, along with most of the other Ivy League bands, however, it had begun moving away from the traditional corps style in the 1940s. Its current uniform, however, is an inadvertent nod to the past—it is a copy of the uniform worn by the freshman band in the early 1930s. The first one hundred years of the history was recently described in a book from Arcadia Publishing, Images of America. Today, the Penn Band is a bastion of music and mirth on the Penn Campus, performing at events and traditions, all Football games. The group also tours along the East Coast, in the past decade, the groups appearances include eight NCAA tournament games on national television in the past fifteen years, ESPN Game Day Live, MSNBC Hardball, and the Fox and Friends Morning Show. In 2007, the band had the opportunity to perform with rock drummer Simon Kirke on the Penn campus. Today, the Penn Band stands as one of the few, if not the only, college bands in the country that attends all conference basketball games
