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Nebraska Cornhuskers football
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The Nebraska Cornhuskers football team represents the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Among the 128 Division I-A teams, Nebraska is one of ten programs to win 800 or more games. Nebraska has more victories against Power Five opponents than any program, as well as the third most victories all-time, behind only Michigan. Nebraska also has the most wins and the highest winning percentage of any program over the last 50 years, ESPN ranks two undefeated Nebraska squads, the 1971 team and the 1995 team, among the top three teams in college football history. Nebraska claims 46 conference championships and five championships,1970,1971,1994,1995. The titles in the 1990s marked the first time that a team won three championships in four seasons since the Notre Dame Fighting Irish in 1946–1949. Also, the 2011–2012 Alabama Crimson Tide, the 1994–1995 Nebraska Cornhuskers, Nebraska also has had five undefeated seasons in which they were not the national champions,1902,1903,1913,1914, and 1915. Between 1912 and 1916, a 34-game unbeaten streak was recorded by head coach Ewald O. Stiehm, famous Cornhuskers include Heisman Trophy winners Johnny Rodgers, Mike Rozier, and Eric Crouch. Rodgers was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame and for the new millennium he was voted the teams Player of the Century, Rozier was likewise inducted into the hall in 2006. Bible, Bob Devaney, Biff Jones, Tom Osborne, Eddie Robbie Robinson, on June 11,2010, Nebraska ended the universitys affiliation with the Big 12 Conference and joined the Big Ten Conference beginning in the 2011 season. The Huskers team began its history as the Old Gold Knights, the name Cornhuskers first appeared in the school newspaper as We Have Met The Cornhuskers And They Are Ours referring to a 20–18 upset victory over Iowa in 1893. The term Cornhuskers was referring to Iowa in that instance, in 1899, Cy Sherman was the first person to refer to the Nebraska football team as the Cornhuskers and the team has used that name since 1900. Nebraska football began play in 1890 with a 10–0 victory over the Omaha YMCA on Thanksgiving Day, the football program started strong and experienced success from the very beginning, going twenty-eight years straight with only a single losing season. Until the 1–7–1 losing season in 1899 in coach A. Edwin Branchs only year at the helm, george Flippin was the first African-American athlete at Nebraska and only the fifth black athlete at a predominantly white university. Because of Flippins presence on the roster, Missouri refused to play a game with Nebraska at Omaha in 1892. The result was a 1–0 forfeit, Nebraskas 4th coach, Frank Crawford was the first paid head football coach at Nebraska. Eddie Robbie Robinson and Fielding H. Yost, the sixth and seventh head coaches, were the earliest Nebraska coaches to eventually be inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame. Booth was the programs 9th leader, and had the second-best career record spanning more than a year during this era and his 1902 team went undefeated, untied and unscored upon
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Amos Foster
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Amos Parker Foster was an American football and basketball player and coach in the early 1900s. He was a 1904 graduate of Dartmouth College where he lettered in basketball and football. Foster served as the football coach at the University of Cincinnati, the University of Nebraska. He was also the basketball coach at Cincinnati for five seasons from 1904 to 1909. After coaching he practiced law in Ohio, Foster was born on March 10,1880 in Keene, New Hampshire. He graduated from Cushing Academy in 1899, where he had played on several athletic teams, Foster lettered in football in 1902 and 1903 for Dartmouth. He helped the 1903 team coached by Fred Folsom to a 9–1 record including the schools first-ever win over Harvard, many of the Eastern writers named him to their All-American team for his success his last year at fullback. Foster was also a letter winner for Dartmouth in basketball. During the 1902–03 season he served as captain and led them to a 7–9 record. Foster started his career while still at Dartmouth, when he took a job as head basketball coach at the Bradford Academy. He held this position for two seasons, Foster was head coach for the Cincinnati Bearcats in both football and basketball. He coached the Cincinnati football team for two seasons 1904 and 1905, in his two years as the Bearcats head coach, he compiled an overall record of 11–4. Fosters most successful year at Cincinnati was in 1904 where he led the Bearcats to a 7–1 record and this team scored 182 points during the season and only gave up 10. Their seven wins included victories over Kentucky, Tennessee. Foster added a 4–3 mark in 1905 before taking over the coaching job at the University of Nebraska for the 1906 season. Foster was also the coach of the basketball squad at Cincinnati from 1904 to 1909. In his five seasons as Bearcats head coach he compiled an record of 30–10. His most successful season was in 1908 where he led the Bearcats to a 9–0 record, even though Foster left Cincinnati to coach football at other schools, he still coached the Bearcats basketball team
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1907 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team
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The 1907 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team was the representative of the University of Nebraska in the 1907 college football season. The team was coached by William C. King Cole and played their games at Antelope Field in Lincoln. Nebraskas 11th head coach took over in the year that Nebraska once again joined a conference. New head coach Cole started strong with a shutout downing of Peru State, south Dakota seemed at first to have the key to holding off Nebraska, but once the Cornhuskers managed to find the end zone, the Coyote defense lost their containment of the Cornhuskers. Nebraskas lead in the series was now 4-1 and it had been two years since Grinnell appeared in Lincoln, but it was more of the same for them upon their return. Nebraska failed to capitalize on several Grinnell miscues in the first half, the now-annual grudge match, where Nebraska continuously seemed to find futility in their repeated attempts to knock off Minnesota, was a repeat of the last several contests. Nebraskas lead in the series was extended to 5-1, Nebraska survived a scare after the Cyclones were at one point leading the Cornhuskers 9-4 in the second half. Both teams made mistakes, but it was Nebraska with more points when time expired, Iowa State fell further behind in the series, 3-6. This game is under dispute, as Iowa State claims they won by a score of 13-10. This is because on a field goal attempt, the ball hit the ground well short of the uprights. This one win, however, was enough for Nebraska to claim a share of the conference title, the Cornhuskers demolished Doane in every way, shutting them out 85-0. Nebraska was now 11-2 over Doane in the longest still-active series in Nebraskas history at that time, Nebraska closed out 1907 facing St Louis for the first and only time, no small task considering the Billikens had gone undefeated in the previous season. The Cornhuskers made it within the 2-yard line, and on another attempt within inches of the end zone, coach Cole wrapped up his first season with the Cornhuskers with relative success, his one-season record of 8-2-0 raising the programs total slightly to 101-39-5. Nebraskas win in their one conference game, against Kansas, was enough to put Nebraska into a tie for first place in the league
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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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Lincoln, Nebraska
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Lincoln is the capital of the U. S. state of Nebraska and the county seat of Lancaster County. The city covers 92.81 square miles with a population of 277,348 in 2015 and it is the second-most populous city in Nebraska and the 72nd-largest in the United States. The statistical area is home to 345,478 people, making it the 105th-largest combined statistical area in the United States, the city was founded in 1856 as the village of Lancaster on the wild salt marshes of what was to become Lancaster County. In 1867, the village of Lancaster became Nebraskas state capital and was renamed Lincoln, bertram G. Goodhue designed state capitol building was completed in 1932 and is the second tallest capitol in the United States. As the city is the seat of government for the state of Nebraska, the state, the University of Nebraska was founded in Lincoln in 1867. The university is the largest in Nebraska with 25,006 students enrolled and is the citys third-largest employer, other primary employers fall within the service and manufacturing industries, including a growing high-tech sector. The region makes up a part of what is known as the greater Midwest Silicon Prairie, designated as a refugee-friendly city by the U. S. Department of State in the 1970s, the city was the twelfth-largest resettlement site per capita in the United States by 2000. Refugee Vietnamese, Karen, Sudanese, and Yazidi people have resettled in the city. Lincoln Public Schools during the year of 2016–17 provided support for approximately 3,200 students from 118 countries. Prior to the westward of settlers, the prairie was covered with buffalo grass. Plains Indians, descendants of peoples who occupied the area for thousands of years, lived in. The Pawnee, which included four tribes, lived in villages along the Platte River, an occasional buffalo could still be seen in the plat of Lincoln in the 1860s. Lincoln was founded in 1856 as the village of Lancaster and became the county seat of the newly created Lancaster County in 1859, the village was sited on the east bank of Salt Creek. The first settlers were attracted to the due to the abundance of salt. Once J. Sterling Morton developed his salt mines in Kansas, Captain W. T. Donovan, a former steamer captain, and his family settled on Salt Creek in 1856. In the fall of 1859, the settlers met to form a county. A caucus was formed and the committee, which included Captain Donovan, after the passage of the 1862 Homestead Act, homesteaders began to inhabit the area. The first plat was dated August 6,1864, by the close of 1868, Lancaster had a population of approximately 500 people
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Walter C. Booth
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Walter Cowles Bummy Booth was an American football coach. He served as the football coach at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln from 1900 to 1905. Booth led Nebraska to a perfect, shutout season in 1902 and his teams achieved the longest winning streak in Nebraska football history with 27 victories including exhibition games, and the second longest with 24 victories excluding exhibition games. His streak remained unbroken until the 1995 Nebraska team would extend the stream to 26 games, Booth turned Nebraska into an independent football powerhouse in the Midwest after coming off its first losing season in 1899. Alonzo Edwin Branch had left the program in 1899 making a spot for Booth to take over, the 1900 Nebraska football team would be the first to be officially called the Cornhuskers and had a record of 6–1–1, not counting two exhibition games. Every game that year was a shutout until the last game of the season with a 12–20 loss to Minnesota. The 1901 Nebraska football team out and had a 6–2 record with several shutouts, including a 51–0 game against rival Missouri. The program had Nebraskas best season ever when in 1902 the team went undefeated, untied and unscored upon for a perfect 9–0 record, the team was led by Johnny Bender and Charles Borg and had a 12-game winning streak. The 1903 Nebraska season would continue its winning streak with a 10–0, the winning streak was now 22 games. The 1904 Nebraska Cornhuskers team would win their first two games and one game before losing to Colorado to end a 24-game winning streak,27 including exhibition games. This streak remained a record until the 1994 Nebraska Cornhuskers team have a 26-game winning streak before losing to Arizona State in 1996. The season would end with a 7-3 record, not counting two victory exhibition games), booths final season was in 1905 with an 8–2 record, not counting one exhibition victory. Booths final record was 46–8–1 for a.845 winning percentage, exhibition games are not counted Walter C. Booth at the College Football Data Warehouse
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University of Cincinnati
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The University of Cincinnati is a comprehensive public research university in Cincinnati, in the U. S. state of Ohio, and a part of the University System of Ohio. In the 2010 survey by Times Higher Education, the university was ranked in the top 100 universities in North America, beginning with the 2011 edition of the U. S. This includes being the number 3 ranked university in the nation in the Up-and-Coming National Universities section of the 2014 edition, in 2014, U. S. News & World Report ranked UC in the top 200 of universities worldwide. The university garners roughly $400 million per annum in research funding, ranking 22nd among public universities in the United States. The school offers over 100 bachelors degrees, over 300 degree-granting programs, with an economic impact of over $3.5 billion per year, it is the largest single employer in Greater Cincinnati. In 1819, Cincinnati College and the Medical College of Ohio were founded in Cincinnati, local benefactor Dr. Daniel Drake founded and funded the Medical College of Ohio. William Lytle of the Lytle family donated the land, funded the Cincinnati College and Law College, the college survived only six years before financial difficulties forced it to close. In 1835, Daniel Drake reestablished the institution, which joined with the Cincinnati Law School. In 1858, Charles McMicken died of pneumonia and in his will he allocated most of his estate to the City of Cincinnati to found a university, the universitys board of rectors changed the institutions name to the University of Cincinnati. By 1893, the University expanded beyond its primary location on Clifton Avenue, as the university expanded, the rectors merged the institution with Cincinnati Law School, establishing the University of Cincinnati College of Law. In 1896, the Ohio Medical College joined Miami Medical College to form the Ohio-Miami Medical Department of the University of Cincinnati in 1909. As political movements for temperance and suffrage grew, the university established Teachers College in 1905, the Queen City College of Pharmacy, acquired from Wilmington College, became the present James L. Winkle College of Pharmacy. In 1962, the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music was acquired by the university, the Ohio legislature in Columbus declared the university a municipally-sponsored, state-affiliated institution in 1968. During this time, the University of Cincinnati was the second oldest and second-largest municipal university in the United States, by an act of the legislature, the University of Cincinnati became a state institution in 1977. In 1989, President Joseph A. Steger released a Master Plan for a stronger academy, over this time, the university invested nearly $2 billion in campus construction, renovation, and expansion ranging from the student union to a new recreation center to the medical school. It included renovation and construction of buildings, a campus forest. Upon her inauguration in 2005, President Nancy L. Zimpher developed the UC|21 plan, in addition, it includes putting liberal arts education at the center, increasing research funding, and expanding involvement in the city. In 2009, Gregory H. Williams was named the 27th president of the University of Cincinnati and his presidency expanded the accreditation and property of the institution to regions throughout Ohio to compete with private and specialized state institutions, such as Ohio State University
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Hastings College
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Hastings College is a private, undergraduate, four-year, church-related residential liberal arts college in Hastings, Nebraska, United States. The college was founded in 1882 by a group of men and women seeking to establish a Presbyterian college dedicated to high academic, Hastings College has been accredited by the Higher Learning Commissions North Central Association of Colleges and Schools since 1916. The Hastings College campus consists of 40 buildings on 109 acres, the colleges first building was McCormick Hall, constructed in 1883 and still in use today. Hastings College was included in U. S. News & World Reports list of Americas Best Colleges 2010, HC was also listed by Kaplan/Newsweek as one of Americas 369 Most Interesting Schools and was recognized as the top liberal arts college in Nebraska by The Washington Monthly magazine. Hastings boasts a music department known for its ensembles including a Concert Band Ensemble, Hastings College Choir, Hastings Colleges athletic teams, the Broncos, are part of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics, primarily competing in the Great Plains Athletic Conference. Congressman Bill Parcells, NFL coach Ivy Ruckman, author Yoo Chang-soon, Prime Minister of South Korea in 1982 Official Hastings College website Official Hastings College athletics website
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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
