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Yale Bulldogs football
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The Yale Bulldogs football program represents Yale University in college football at the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision. Yales football program is one of the oldest in the world, with 890 wins, Yale ranks second in wins in college football history, trailing only the University of Michigan. The Bulldogs were the dominant team in the days of intercollegiate football, winning 27 college football national championships. Walter Camp, known as the Father of Football, graduated from Hopkins Grammar School in 1876 and he later served as the head football coach at Yale from 1888 to 1892. The team made the down and went on to win the game in one of Yales greatest victories in its history, laRoche went on to spearhead the creation of the National Football Foundation and Hall of Fame. When the Ivy League athletic conference was formed in 1955, conference rules prohibited post-season play in football. While Yale had always abstained from post-season play, other schools had participated in bowls before, and the new policy further insulated Yale. The NCAA decided to split Division I into two subdivisions in 1978, then called I-A for larger schools, and I-AA for the smaller ones. In 1982, the NCAA created a rule that stated an average attendance must be at least 15,000 to qualify for I-A membership. This forced the hand, as only some of the member schools met the attendance qualification. Choosing to stay rather than stand their ground separately in the increasingly competitive I-A subdivision. Since the formation of the Ivy League in 1956, Yale has won 14 Ivy League championships,1956,1960,1967,1968,1969,1974,1976,1977,1979,1980,1981,1989,1999,2006. Harvard and Yale have been competing against each other in football since 1875, the annual rivalry game between the two schools, known as The Game, is played in November at the end of the football season. As of 2016, Yale leads the series 66–59–8, the Game is the second oldest continuing rivalry and also the third most-played rivalry game in college football history, after the Lehigh–Lafayette Rivalry and the Princeton–Yale game. Sports Illustrated On Campus rated the Harvard–Yale rivalry the sixth-best in college athletics in 2003, Harvard had been unbeaten versus Yale from 2007 to 2015. The nine game winning streak was the longest during the rivalry, Yales 2016 victory over Harvard in Cambridge, 21-14, ended the streak. The Game is significant for historical reasons as the rules of The Game soon were adopted by other schools. Footballs rules, conventions, and equipment, as well as elements of such as the mascot and fight song, include many elements pioneered or nurtured at Harvard
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1906 college football season
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The 1906 IAAUS football season was the first played under the authority of the IAAUS and the first in which the forward pass was permitted. St. Louis University finished at 11-0-0, the Helms Athletic Foundation, founded in 1936, declared retroactively that Princeton had been the best college football team of 1906. Other selectors recognized Yale as the champions for 1906. Although his nearsightedness kept him off the Harvard varsity squad, Theodore Roosevelt was an exponent of football’s contribution to the “strenuous life. He helped revive the annual Harvard-Yale football series after it had been canceled for two following the violent 1894 clash that was deemed “the bloodbath at Hampden Park. ”His belief that the football field was a proving ground for the battlefield was validated by the performance of his fellow Rough Riders who were former football standouts. “In life, as in a game, ” he wrote, “the principle to follow is, Hit the line hard, don’t foul and don’t shirk, but hit the line hard. ”In 1903. I do not feel any sympathy for the person who gets battered about a good deal so long as it is not fatal. ”He summoned the head coaches and representatives of the premier collegiate powers—Harvard, Yale. Roosevelt urged them to excessive violence and make an example of fair play for the rest of the country. The schools released a statement condemning brutality and pledging to keep the game clean, following the 1905 season, Stanford and California switched to rugby while Columbia, Northwestern and Duke dropped football. Roosevelt wrote in a letter to a friend that he would not let Eliot “emasculate football, ” and he urged for radical rule changes, and he invited other school leaders to the White House in the off-season. An intercollegiate conference, which would become the forerunner of the NCAA and they legalized the forward pass, abolished the dangerous flying wedge, created a neutral zone between offense and defense and doubled the first-down distance to 10 yards, to be gained in three downs. Georgia Tech coach John Heisman had seen the play attempted in 1895 in a Georgia vs. North Carolina game, and lobbied for its legalization starting in 1903. Finally, in 1906, the Rules Committee, college football’s governing body, legalized the forward pass. ”Numerous changes were made, various persons are given credit for the suggestion. Bell, Sr. and Dr. J. William White were later credited with designing rules that would permit a pass, among the other rule changes made for the 06 season included, Length of game reduced from 70 minutes to two halves of 30 minutes each. The two teams would be separated by a zone at the line of scrimmage. Team had to gain 10 yards in 3 plays rather than 5 yards for a first down, offensive linemen had to drop back five yards behind scrimmage if not moving forward. Field marked with lines every five yards, a fourth official added to enforce the rules. If the defense committed a foul, the 15 yard penalty didnt apply to the offense, in addition, a pass could not be caught more than 20 yards beyond the line of scrimmage, nor beyond the goal line
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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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Caspar Whitney
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Caspar William Whitney was an American author, editor, explorer, outdoorsman and war correspondent. He originated the concept of the All-American team in football in 1889 when he worked for Harpers Magazine. He was educated at Saint Mathews College in California, during the Spanish–American War, Whitney submitted articles from the front in Cuba. At the Battle of Las Guasimas, he accompanied General Youngs 1st and his published map of the battle is considered the most accurate of that action published at that time. His depiction of the fighting on the right is made from personal observation and his depiction of the left where the Rough Riders fought was based on post-battle interviews. He was a member of The Explorers Club after expeditions in North and South America. As a sports journalist he was an advocate of amateurism and was a member of the International Olympic Committee. He wrote on a range of subjects including big-game hunting, inter collegiate sporting contests, amateur versus professional contests. In the early 1900s, he edited The American Sportsmans Library, Whitney testified in a lawsuit against him that he earned a salary of $8,000 for editing Outing and $1,500 for editing the American Sportsmans Library. Whitney married three times, Anna Childs in 1889, Cora Adele Chase in 1897 and Florence Canfield in 1909, the latter was the daughter of the colorful miner and industrialist Charles A. Canfield. She participated in founding the League of Women Voters and remained active politically until her death in a vehicle accident in 1941. Sporting Pilgrimage On Snow-Shoes to the Barren Grounds Hawaiian America Musk-Ox, Bison, Sheep and Goat Jungle Trails, gott mit Uns - the Boche Delusion Hunt Clubs and Country Clubs in America Charles Adelbert Canfield Dillon Wallace Papers Edgar Rice Burroughs Library Explorers Club History
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Chicago Maroons football
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The Chicago Maroons football represents the University of Chicago in college football. The Maroons, which play in NCAA Division III, will become a member of the Midwest Conference in the 2017 season. From 1892 to 1939, the Maroons were a college football power. The University of Chicago was a member of the Big Ten Conference. In 1935, halfback Jay Berwanger became the first recipient of the Downtown Athletic Club Trophy, nonetheless, in the late 1930s, university president Robert Maynard Hutchins decided that big-time college football and the universitys commitment to academics was not a good fit. The University of Chicago abolished its football program in 1939 and withdrew from the Big Ten in 1946, football returned to the University of Chicago in 1963 in the form of a club team, which was upgraded to varsity status in 1969. The Maroons began competing in Division III in 1973, Walter S. Kennedy, quarterback for Staggs 1898-1899 teams Walter E
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Western Michigan University
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Western Michigan University is a public research university in Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States. The university was established in 1903 by Dwight B, waldo, and as of the Fall 2014 semester, its enrollment was 23,914. WMU has one of the largest aviation programs in the United States, the universitys athletic teams compete in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association and are known as the Western Michigan Broncos. They compete in the Mid-American Conference for most sports, on May 27,1903, Michigan Governor Aaron T. Bliss signed a bill authorizing the creation of the States fourth teacher-training facility, the three other normal schools were in Ypsilanti, Mount Pleasant, and Marquette. Kalamazoo was chosen as the new location on August 28,1903. Other locations considered included Allegan, Muskegon, Grand Rapids, Decatur, Three Oaks, the first building, then known as the Administration Building, and now known as East Hall, was constructed in 1904. The University was first officially known as Western State Normal School, the first principal and president was Dwight B. Waldo, who served from 1904 until 1936, the school was renamed several times throughout its early history, beginning with Western State Teachers College in 1927, Michigan College of Education in 1941, and Western Michigan College in 1955. Most of the oldest and original WMU buildings and classrooms are known as East Campus. Access to the East Campus site was an issue because of the steep grade elevating it above the city, the Western State Normal Railroad was established in 1907 to carry students and staff up and down the hill via a funicular. WMUs campuses encompass more than 1,200 acres and roughly 150 buildings, many of the residence halls are found scattered throughout West Campus, while other dormitories are adjacent to West Campus in Goldsworth Valley. The Bernhard Center is a centrally-located multi-purpose student union that provides student, waldo Library and the attached University Computing Center are on West Campus, as is the Dalton Musical Center. Recently constructed buildings on West Campus include the Western Heights dormitory and the Chemistry Building, West Campus is also the site of Miller Auditorium. A large entertainment venue seating nearly 3500 people, it is Michigans fourth largest auditorium, Miller Auditorium hosts events ranging from popular musicals and concerts to graduation commencements and film screenings. The Gilmore Theater Complex is directly next to Miller Auditorium, the Richmond Center for Visual Arts was added to the Fine Arts Complex in 2007, followed by South Kohrman Hall being renovated into the Kohrman Hall Studios in 2008. Both buildings house the Gwen Frostic School of Art, East Campus is the original development dating from the universitys founding in 1903. It contains many of the historical buildings including, East Hall, West Hall, North Hall, Walwood Hall, Spindler Hall, Vandercook Hall
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Western Michigan Broncos football
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The Western Michigan Broncos football program represents Western Michigan University in the Football Bowl Subdivision of Division I and the Mid-American Conference. Western Michigan has competed in football since 1906, when they played three games in their inaugural season, in 1927, WMU joined four other schools to form the Michigan Collegiate Conference. Western Michigan then moved to its present conference in 1946, prior to 1939, Western Michigans athletic teams were known as the Hilltoppers. Western Michigans football team has had 16 head coaches in its history and are coached by Tim Lester. WMUs main rival is the Central Michigan University Chippewas and they play for the WMU–CMU Rivalry Trophy, as of 2016, the Broncos own a 48–37–2 advantage in the series. In 2002, Western Michigan won the game at Central Michigan for the first time since 1973. Western Michigan University played in the inaugural International Bowl in 2007 in Toronto and it did not win a bowl game until it defeated Middle Tennessee, 45-31, in the 2015 Bahamas Bowl. The following list is the current WMU coaching staff, during that stretch, Western Michigan had only seven losing seasons, and only once had back-to-back losing records. In 1922, the team finished 6–0 while outscoring their opponents 160–0, the early dominance of the Hilltoppers was led by quarterback Walt Olsen and running back Scott Dunlap. In 1916, Olsen led the country in scoring with 17 touchdowns and 36 extra points, Olsen set a school-record with 8 touchdowns in a single game that season. Dunlap also set a record with 19 touchdowns. The only loss in 1916 was to Notre Dame when George Gipp completed a 62-yard drop kick, in 1939, WMU began playing at Waldo Stadium. Coinciding with the opening of the new stadium, the Hilltoppers changed their name to avoid confusion with athletic teams at Western Kentucky University, a contest was held to come up with a new name and assistant football coach John Gill suggested broncos. In support of the decision, the W Clubs semi-annual publication, Western Michigan joined the MAC in 1948. At that time, the MAC consisted of Miami University, Ohio University, University of Cincinnati, Western Reserve University, the Broncos won their first conference game 26–0 over Western Reserve and finished with a 6–3 record, good for second place. However, WMU would finish second or higher only 4 times in the next 39 years, in 1961, Western Michigan finished second in the MAC with a 4–1–1 record, one-half game behind Bowling Green State University. Despite the second-place finish, WMU was invited to the Aviation Bowl in Dayton, in freezing rain and snow, the Broncos lost to the University of New Mexico 28–12. 1966 saw a 7–3 season and WMUs first MAC football championship and that season, tackle Bob Rowe won his second MAC Lineman of the Year Award
