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American football
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The offense must advance at least ten yards in four downs, or plays, or else they turn over the football to the opposing team, if they succeed, they are given a new set of four downs. Points are primarily scored by advancing the ball into the teams end zone for a touchdown or kicking the ball through the opponents goalposts for a field goal. The team with the most points at the end of a game wins, American football evolved in the United States, originating from the sports of association football and rugby football. The first game of American football was played on November 6,1869, during the latter half of the 1870s, colleges playing association football switched to the Rugby Union code, which allowed carrying the ball. American football as a whole is the most popular sport in the United States, Professional football and college football are the most popular forms of the game, with the other major levels being high school and youth football. As of 2012, nearly 1.1 million high school athletes and 70,000 college athletes play the sport in the United States annually, almost all of them men, in the United States, American football is referred to as football. The term football was established in the rulebook for the 1876 college football season. The terms gridiron or American football are favored in English-speaking countries where other codes of football are popular, such as the United Kingdom, Ireland, New Zealand, American football evolved from the sports of association football and rugby football. What is considered to be the first American football game was played on November 6,1869 between Rutgers and Princeton, two college teams, the game was played between two teams of 25 players each and used a round ball that could not be picked up or carried. It could, however, be kicked or batted with the feet, hands, head or sides, Rutgers won the game 6 goals to 4. Collegiate play continued for years in which matches were played using the rules of the host school. Representatives of Yale, Columbia, Princeton and Rutgers met on October 19,1873 to create a set of rules for all schools to adhere to. Teams were set at 20 players each, and fields of 400 by 250 feet were specified, Harvard abstained from the conference, as they favored a rugby-style game that allowed running with the ball. An 1875 Harvard-Yale game played under rugby-style rules was observed by two impressed Princeton athletes and these players introduced the sport to Princeton, a feat the Professional Football Researchers Association compared to selling refrigerators to Eskimos. Princeton, Harvard, Yale and Columbia then agreed to play using a form of rugby union rules with a modified scoring system. These schools formed the Intercollegiate Football Association, although Yale did not join until 1879, the introduction of the snap resulted in unexpected consequences. Prior to the snap, the strategy had been to punt if a scrum resulted in bad field position, however, a group of Princeton players realized that, as the snap was uncontested, they now could hold the ball indefinitely to prevent their opponent from scoring. In 1881, both teams in a game between Yale-Princeton used this strategy to maintain their undefeated records, each team held the ball, gaining no ground, for an entire half, resulting in a 0-0 tie
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College Football All-Southern Team
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The College Football All-Southern Team was an all-star team of college football players from the Southern United States. The honor was given annually to the best players at their respective positions and it is analogous to the All-America Team and was most often selected in newspapers. Notable pickers of All-Southern teams include John Heisman, Dan McGugin, Grantland Rice, W. A. Lambeth, Reynolds Tichenor, Nash Buckingham, Innis Brown, virginias 115–0 drubbing by Princeton in 1890 signaled footballs arrival in the south. For example, North Carolina was in both the SIAA and SAIAA at different points in its history, and Virginia Tech had one year in the SIAA. Clemson, today in the ACC, was in the SIAA, the SIAA was the oldest of these, founded in the winter of 1894 by Vanderbilt chemistry professor William Lofland Dudley. This organization really represents the south, as its scope is wider. V. P. I. can scarcely be figured in the calculation as that institution hasnt played any of the S. I. A. A. representatives. South Atlantic writers of course were not fond of this, and would sometimes critique the latest All-Southern selection with titles such as Virginia, in 1922 teams from the SIAA and SAIAA left for the Southern Conference and All-Southern teams become effectively All-Southern Conference teams. By 1933 the contemporary Southeastern Conference was established, Walter Camps annual official All-America first team had been historically loaded with college players from Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Penn, and other Northeastern colleges. Many selectors picked only Eastern players, in 1894, Michigan defeated Cornell and lobbied for its center Fatty Smith to be the first Western All-American. Notably the University of Michigan claims for their center Fatty Smith the supremacy in his position, but the western institutions have not yet mastered the eastern knowledge of all the details and fine points of the game. Smith has made a record against the west and even against Cornell. When brought to face a man like the Stillman of today or the Bulliet of last year, Smith would simply be lost, so it would be with all of the claimants for line positions from western teams. And no one claims for a moment that western back field men could play in the class with eastern men. The selectors were typically Eastern writers and former players who attended games in the East. The article noted, Eastern sporting editors must be devoid of all sense of humor, what man in the lot that have picked All-American elevens this fall, saw a single game outside the North Atlantic States. With a conceit all their own they fail to recognize that the United States reaches more than 200 miles in any direction from New York, suppose an Ohio football writer picked All-American teams. Ohio readers would not stand for it, but apparently the eastern readers will swallow anything
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Alvin Karpis
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There were only four public enemies ever given the title of Public Enemy #1 by the FBI and he was the only one to be taken alive. The other three, John Dillinger, Pretty Boy Floyd, and Baby Face Nelson, were all killed before being captured and he also spent the longest time as a federal prisoner in Alcatraz Prison, serving twenty-six years. Karpis was born to Lithuanian immigrants John and Anna Karpowicz in Montreal, Quebec and he started in crime at about age 10, selling pornography and running around with gamblers, bootleggers, and pimps. In 1926, he was sentenced to 10 years at the State Industrial Reformatory in Hutchinson, Kansas and he escaped with another inmate, Lawrence De Vol, and went on a year-long crime spree, interrupted briefly while he lived with his parents after De Vol was arrested. After moving to Kansas City, Missouri, he was stealing a car. Transferred to the Kansas State Penitentiary in Lansing, he met Fred Barker, Barker was one of the notorious members of the Bloody Barkers, as the newspapers of the time called them. The Barker family included brothers Herman, Lloyd, Arthur, and Fred, growing up impoverished in a sharecropping family, all the boys soon turned into hardened criminals, robbing banks and killing without provocation. Doc was sentenced to imprisonment in 1920 after murdering a night watchman. Lloyd was sentenced to 25 years in 1922, for mail theft, Ma did her part to help her sons. Ma Barker was not herself a criminal, but badgered parole boards, wardens, after Alvin was released in 1931, he joined up with Fred Barker in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and they soon put together the Barker-Karpis Gang. The Barker-Karpis Gang became one of the most formidable criminal gangs of the 1930s and they did not hesitate to kill anyone who got in their way, even innocent bystanders. On December 19,1931, Karpis and Fred Barker killed Sheriff C. Roy Kelley, the gang, including Ma Barker and her paramour Arthur Dunlop, fled to St. Paul, Minnesota. The group was led by Alvin, who had a memory and was described as super-smart by fellow gang member Fred Hunter. The other leaders were Doc and Fred, both now out of prison, and the gang included about 25 others, at this time a myth was started that Ma Barker ruled the gang with an iron fist, but the facts do not seem to support these claims. It is highly unlikely that criminals as adept as Karpis, and even Mas sons for that matter, Karpis later wrote about this subject in his memoirs, Ma was always somebody in our lives. Love didnt enter into it really and she was somebody we looked after and took with us when we moved city to city, hideout to hideout. It is no insult to Mas memory that she just didnt have the know-how to direct us on a robbery and it would not have occurred to her to get involved in our business, and we always made it a point of only discussing our scores when Ma wasnt around. Wed leave her at home when we were arranging a job, in 1933, on the same weekend as the Kansas City Massacre, they kidnapped William Hamm, a millionaire Minnesota brewer
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Vanderbilt Commodores football
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The Vanderbilt Commodores football program represents Vanderbilt University in the sport of American football. The Commodores compete in the Football Bowl Subdivision of the National Collegiate Athletic Association and they are currently coached by former Tennessee Titans wide receiver Derek Mason. Vanderbilt plays their games at Vanderbilt Stadium, located on the universitys Nashville. Adopting the nickname the Commodores after the 1897 season, the team has played in 1,250 games over 126 seasons. In that time, six coaches have led the Commodores to a bowl appearance, Art Guepe, Steve Sloan, George MacIntyre, Bobby Johnson, James Franklin. Four have led them to a championship, R. G. Acton, W. H. Watkins, James H. Henry. McGugin is the leader in seasons coached and games won, with 198 victories during his thirty years at Vanderbilt and he was awarded two National Championships retroactively by Clyde Berryman. Of the twenty-eight different head coaches who have led the Commodores, McGugin, Ray Morrison, Henry Russell Sanders, the current head coach is Derek Mason. Ole Miss is Vanderbilts cross-divisional rival in the SEC, Vanderbilt and Ole Miss have played 87 times since 1894. Ole Miss leads the series 50–38–2, the largest margin of victory was by 91 points won by Vanderbilt in 1915. Vanderbilt also holds the longest win streaks in the series from 1894 to 1938, having started in 1893, the Georgia-Vanderbilt football series has been played annually since 1968. The two are divisional opponents in the SEC East, the two are divisional opponents in the SEC East. The series, which rotates between Nashville, Tennessee and Lexington, Kentucky, is tied at 42–42–4 with the score being Vanderbilt 17-Kentucky 15.6. Vanderbilt and Tennessee have played 107 times since 1892, Tennessee leads the series 75–30–5, when the rivalry first started Vanderbilt dominated by taking 19 of the first 24 with 3 ties. After 1928, UT has dominated the rivalry with a record of Vanderbilt 71–11–2, the largest margin of victory for Vanderbilt was by 76 points in 1918 at Old Dudley Field in Nashville. The largest defeat was 65 points in 1994 at Vanderbilt Stadium, the longest win streaks for Vanderbilt is from 1901 to 1913. The longest win streak for Tennessee is 22, from 1983 to 2004, Vanderbilt and the Sewanee Tigers were both founding members of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association, the Southern Conference, and the Southeastern Conference. It is the oldest of Vanderbilts rivalries, dating back to 1891 when Vanderbilt played its football game
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Dan McGugin
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Daniel Earle McGugin was an American football player and coach, as well as a lawyer. He served as the football coach at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee from 1904 to 1917 and again from 1919 to 1934. He is the winningest head coach in the history of the university, McGugin was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1951 as part of its inaugural class. Zipp Newman once wrote “I believe Dan McGugin would have gone down in history as the greatest of all coaches had he given all of his time to coaching. He was a great play-maker, but football was a sport for the beloved McGugin and law was his profession. ”McGugin was born in July 1879 on a farm near Tingley and he was the son of Benjamin Franklin McGugin and Melissa McGugin. He was of Scottish and Irish descent, McGugin saw the baton twirling skills of W. W. Wharton in Tingley for a Sunday evening church service one day in 1896 and was intrigued. Wharton, Drake Universitys first football coach, suggested he play football instead, come to Drake University, Wharton suggested, and well make you as fine a tackle as there is. McGugin enrolled at Drake University and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1901 and he played football at Drake for two years at the guard and tackle positions and was considered one of the best players that Drake ever had. After one victory he purchased a small cannon and fired it at regular fifteen-minute intervals, nodding politely to neighbors Sabbath complaints. After graduating from Drake, McGugin enrolled in law school at the University of Michigan, while there, McGugin played college football for Fielding H. Yost. He was a player on Michigans Point-a-Minute teams that outscored their opponents,1,211 to 12 in 1901 and 1902, as a guard he is careful yet nervy. He gets the jump on his opponents and keeps the advantage, although a hard player he goes into each scrimmage with as much composure as if he were walking along the campus. McGugin, although good in every department of his position, has two qualities that are pre-eminent, namely, making interference and opening holes, heston has been especially fortunate this year in having a good interference, and part of that interference has been McGugin. McGugin was the football coach for the Vanderbilt Commodores of Vanderbilt University from 1904 to 1917. During his tenures, the Vanderbilt Commodores compiled a 197–55–19 record, had a.762 winning percentage, and won 11 conference titles. He had numerous intersectional triumphs, defeating the Carlisle Indians in 1906, and tying the Navy Midshipmen in 1907, the Yale Bulldogs in 1910, McGugin used his mentor Yosts short punt formation. In his first career game, McGugins team defeated Mississippi A&M and he went on to win his next two games by 60 points as well. He remains the only coach in NCAA history to win his first three games by 60 points and he also won each of his first 11 games by more than 20 points
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Frank Faulkinberry
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Frank Albert Faulkinberry was an American football, basketball, and baseball player and coach. Frank was born on November 27,1887 in Lincoln County, Tennessee to Christopher Columbus Faulkinberry, Faulkinberry was a tackle on the Sewanee Tigers, thrice selected All-Southern. His play was called a thing to marvel at. He is a tackle on Sewanees all-time second team and he was nominated though not selected for an Associated Press All-Time Southeast 1869-1919 era team. As a player he stood some 64,198 pounds, at Sewanee he was a member of Phi Delta Theta. Faulkinberry is a member of both the Sewanee Athletics Hall of Fame and the Blue Raiders Hall of Fame, having coached for years the Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders in both men and womens sports and he was also a Latin professor. Faulkinberry Drive on the Middle Tennessee State campus is named in his honor, Faulkinberry was inducted into the Sewanee Athletics Hall of Fame in 2014. Faulkenberry was once athletic director at the Brandon Training School in Shelbyville, for a few years he was a catcher in Minor League Baseball. Faulkinberry was found shot to death in the garage of his home on May 13,1933, Frank Faulkinberry at the College Football Data Warehouse Frank Faulkinberry at Find a Grave
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Lewie Hardage
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Lewis Woolford Lewie Hardage was an American college football player and college football and baseball coach. Fuzzy Woodruff labeled him the Souths fastest back of the 1910-1920 decade and he served as the head football coach at Mercer University in 1913 and at the University of Oklahoma from 1932 to 1934, compiling a career college football coaching record of 13–17–5. Hardage was later the baseball coach at the University of Florida from 1937 to 1939. Hardage was born on February 11,1891 in Madison, Alabama to Monroe L. a liquor dealer and his father Monroe operated the Hardage Brothers Saloon. Hardage was a native of Decatur, Hardage was a prominent halfback at two different schools, Auburn and Vanderbilt, and was selected All-Southern every year in which he played. He was inducted into the Morgan County Sports Hall of Fame in 2016, Hardage played two years for Mike Donahues Auburn Tigers football team, from 1908 to 1909. The 1908 team disputes a Southern championship with the LSU Tigers despite losing to them due to charges of professionalism upon LSU, the 1909 team lost to Vanderbilt, and to conference champion Sewanee by a single point. Hardage was then a two-year letterman for coach Dan McGugins Vanderbilt Commodores football team, the 1911 team lost one game by a single point to the only team able to score upon them, Michigan. The Atlanta Constitution voted it the best backfield in the South, once against Mississippi, Hardage started around left end, then reversed right, and was again crowded out, reversing field back around left end. He seemed to break a tackle by every Mississippi player on his way to the end zone, in his senior year in 1912, Hardage was the captain of the team. He also was selected third-team All-American by Walter Camp, the fourth ever Southern player to get such a recognition, innis Brown in 1912 wrote Hardage has been rated as probably the most successful man in the south at making forward passes. He scored two touchdowns in the 105–0 defeat of Bethel and he tossed a 40-yard touchdown pass in a 100–3 win over Maryville. He returned an interception 35 yards for a touchdown against Rose Polytechnic and he was injured in the seasons only loss, to national champion Harvard. Despite his hurt left ankle, Hardage ran with great brilliance in the 16–0 defeat of Sewanee, after graduating from Vanderbilt, Hardage took several coaching jobs. His first position was as coach of the Mercer Baptists. He was head coach at The McCallie School, a boys’ college-preparatory school in Chattanooga, Tennessee, from 1915 to 1917, as a lieutenant, he played for Barron Aviation Field during World War 1. In 1921, he took the job of the director at Gordon Military College. From 1922 to 1931, Hardage returned to his alma mater, Vanderbilt and he focused particularly on Gil Reese upon his arrival, and later coached Hall of Famer Bill Spears
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Reelfoot Lake
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Reelfoot Lake is a shallow natural lake located in the northwest portion of U. S. state of Tennessee, in Lake and Obion counties. Much of it is more of a swamp, with bayou-like ditches connecting more open bodies of water called basins. Reelfoot Lake is noted for its bald cypress trees and its nesting pairs of bald eagles and it is the site of Reelfoot Lake State Park. Lake Isom, a similar, smaller lake to the south, is a National Wildlife Refuge area. According to the United States Geological Survey, Reelfoot Lake was formed when the region subsided during the 1811–12 New Madrid earthquakes, the earthquakes resulted in several major changes in the landforms over a widespread area, with shocks being felt as far away as Quebec, Canada. In the early 20th century, the Reelfoot area was marked by widespread lawlessness and Night Riding, the governor of Tennessee, Malcolm R. Patterson, ordered the state militia into the area to try to restore order. The troubles began when a group of landowners purchased almost the entire shoreline of the lake and they formed the West Tennessee Land Company to enforce what they saw to be their legal rights, including the ownership of the lake itself, and most importantly its fishing rights. Most of the Night Riders were from families who had derived much of their living from fishing the lake for generations, joined by their friends, two attorneys engaged by the West Tennessee Land Company to enforce its claims were seized by the Night Riders. Colonel Taylor was first reported killed, but later was confirmed to have escaped and this violence in 1908 caused the governor to call out the militia to restore order. The alleged murderers were arrested, unsuccessfully tried, and charges were eventually dropped, the governor soon declared the lake to be part of the public domain, which guaranteed the right of the public to use it regardless of who owned the land adjacent to it. A system of parks, wildlife refuges, recreation areas, Reelfoot is the only large natural lake in Tennessee, and gives its name to Lake County, Tennessee, in which it is located. Until 2003, Reelfoot was the only legal commercial fishery for crappie. It was served in restaurants near the shore, the area is popular for recreational boating and fishing. Since 1930, water levels in the lake have been regulated by the construction and operation of a spillway at the southern end and this structure was controversial when first built, and in 1939 local residents attempted to blow it up, unsuccessfully. In the early 21st century, the 80-year-old structure was regarded as obsolete by both the United States Fish and Wildlife Service and the United States Army Corps of Engineers, a new spillway was completed in 2013 and became operational. This has helped regulate water levels and by doing so, helped the health of the lake. Poor agricultural practices have resulted in siltation of the lake occurring far more rapidly than it should and it was common practice for cotton and soybeans to be planted up to the waters edge until governmental agencies purchased the entire shoreline and forbade the practice. Siltation has been accelerated by the custom of burning out the adjacent ditchlines every fall, increasing erosion
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Union City, Tennessee
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Union City is a city located in Obion County, Tennessee, United States. The 2010 census reported the population of the town as 10,895, Union City is the principal city of the surrounding micropolitan area, which includes Obion County and Fulton County, Kentucky. The Discovery Park of America serves as an attraction in the state of Tennessee and is located within city limits. It was founded by Robert Kirkland and opened its doors in 2013, Union City is approximately 30–45 minutes from Reelfoot Lake. This well-known lake was formed from the 1811–12 New Madrid earthquakes and is a recreational boating and fishing location in the state. Union City is also approximately 15–20 minutes from the University of Tennessee at Martin, the city name was derived from its location at the junction of two railroads, with one running roughly east-west and the other roughly north-south. Union City is located at 36°25′28″N 89°3′3″W, according to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 10.7 square miles, all land. The current mayor is Terry Hailey, as of the census of 2000, there were 13 people,4 households, and 2 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,020.1 people per square mile, there were 5,013 housing units at an average density of 470.2 per square mile. The racial makeup of the city was 75. 44% White,21. 29% African American,0. 22% Native American,0. 29% Asian,0. 13% Pacific Islander,1. 59% from other races, and 1. 04% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 3. 41% of the population,32. 7% of all households were made up of individuals and 15. 1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.30 and the family size was 2.89. In the city, the population was out with 23. 6% under the age of 18,9. 6% from 18 to 24,26. 8% from 25 to 44,22. 6% from 45 to 64. The median age was 38 years, for every hundred females there were 87.6 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 81.4 males, the median income for a household in the city was $29,399, and the median income for a family was $40,737. Males had an income of $35,801 versus $19,694 for females. The per capita income for the city was $18,787, about 12. 5% of families and 16. 8% of the population were below the poverty line, including 26. 4% of those under age 18 and 14. 6% of those age 65 or over. Over the years many companies have located manufacturing or processing plants there, currently, the city has several vital companies that operate plants in Union City
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Ray Morrison
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J. Ray Morrison was an American football and baseball player and a coach of football, basketball, and baseball. He served as the football coach at Southern Methodist University, Vanderbilt University, Temple University. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1954. Morrison was also the basketball coach at Vanderbilt for one season in 1918–19, tallying a mark of 8–2. Ray Morrison was born on February 28,1885 in Sugar Branch, soon after the family moved to McKenzie, Tennessee, where Morrison attended school. He also spent a year at McTyiere School for Boys, to achieve funds for college, Morrison worked on a dredge boat on the Mississippi River for a year. He played football as a prominent halfback and quarterback for Dan McGugins Vanderbilt football teams from 1908 to 1911 and he is considered one of the best quarterbacks in Vanderbilts long history. The team posted a 30–6–2 record during his four years, Morrison was selected as the quarterback and kick returner for an Associated Press Southeast Area All-Time football team 1869-1919 era. He weighed some 155 to 159 pounds, the 1908 squad was hampered by a wealth of sophomores, which McGugin with the help of halfback Morrison led to a 7–2–1 campaign, derailed mostly by losses to Sewanee. The 1910 team fought defending national champion Yale to a tie on Yale Field. Yale coach Ted Coy called Morrison the greatest player I have seen in years, the Atlanta Constitution voted it the best backfield in the South. Morrison won Bachelor of Ugliness for the class of 1912, Morrison first taught and was athletics director at Branham & Hughes Military Academy in Spring Hill. Ray Morrison was the first head coach in the history of SMU Mustangs football and he won just two games in two years from 1915 to 1916. Upon American entry into World War I, Morrison went to Fort Oglethorpe and he coached Vanderbilt in 1918 when McGugin left for the military, and led the Vanderbilt team to a 4–2 record. In 1919, Morrison spent a year at Gulf Coast Military Academy as athletics director, in 1920, Morrison returned to SMU. He notably brought the pass to the southwest during his time at SMU. Morrison was one of the first to not just on first down. Gerald Mann was one of his best passers and his teams earned the nickname the Flying Circus
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Reynolds Tichenor
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Walker Reynolds Tick Tichenor was a college football player, coach, and official, as well as a sportswriter and attorney. Tichenor was a quarterback for John Heismans Auburn Tigers of Auburn University, as a player, Tichenor was one of the all-time best little men of the sport, weighing only 116 pounds. Walker Reynolds Tichenor was born on January 26,1877, in Alpine, Alabama and his father Isaac was a pastor and president of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama, now known as Auburn University. Walker lived in Auburn, Alabama until he was four years old, then moved to Atlanta and he played and watched baseball from a young age. Tichenor enrolled at Auburn University in 1893, and was a member of Kappa Alpha and he was captain of the 1896 Auburn Tigers football team, and returned to assist his alma mater in the 1910s. When coach Mike Donahues health failed in 1911, Tichenor was largely responsible for Auburns strong showing in holding Georgia to a scoreless tie and he also assisted the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association champion 1913,1914, and 1919 Auburn teams. Tichenor once executed a hidden ball trick in the 1895 game against Vanderbilt as Auburn seemed to run a revolving wedge, Vanderbilt still won however,9 to 6, the first time in the history of southern football that a field goal decided a game. Billy Williams recalled, I was playing left half for Auburn and we were on Vandys 15-yard line and had the ball in our possession. Tich passed the ball to me, I raised his jersey and hid the ball under it, at the same time dashing toward our right end, Tich journeyed around his own left and went over the Vanderbilts goal line. The first time the Vandy players knew Tich had the ball and had made a touchdown was when they saw him pulling the ball from under his jersey, Tichenor described the nature of the play as follows, The play was simply this. When the ball was snapped it went to a halfback, the play was closely massed and well screened. The halfback then thrust the ball under the back of my jersey, then he would crash into the line. After the play I simply trotted away to a touchdown, innis Brown relates, The game was played on a rather soft, slippery field, and it was exceedingly difficult to get a secure footing. According to Ticks own account, the runner could hear someone just behind him, and he expected every second to be thrown heavily from behind. He never faltered, however, and when at last he fell exhausted across the line and his opponents were nowhere in sight. The Georgia–Auburn game of 1896 was a 12 to 6 victory by Georgia to finish its first undefeated season under Pop Warner, the game featured Tichenors brilliant punt returns. Tichenor once said of the game that he had been sprawled on the ground, the fellow was very polite, Tichenor said. We both got up and he apologized very profusely for having missed me, Tichenor then transferred to the University of Georgia to attend law school, and was quarterback of the football team when Richard Von Albade Gammon met his death
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Del Pratt
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Derrill Burnham Del Pratt was a star running back for the University of Alabama before becoming a professional baseball player. Pratt signed with the St. Louis Browns in 1912 and he was a utility player, playing second base, shortstop, third base and the outfield. In his rookie season, Pratt batted.302 for the Browns, in 1916 he led the American League with 103 RBIs. In 1917, the Browns were struggling, owner Phil Ball accused some of the players of intentionally playing poorly so that they could be traded. Ball said, Every $1,000 I lose on the Browns this season will cost the ballplayers $100, salaries will be cut next season. He and teammate Doc Lavan sued Ball for slander, the Sporting News went so far as to call Pratt the Browns Trotsky. The suit was settled in 1918, and Pratt was traded to the New York Yankees. After the 1920 season, the Yankees traded Pratt to the Boston Red Sox for Waite Hoyt and he was hired as the University of Michigan baseball coach to replace Carl Lundgren and served as an assistant football coach and freshman basketball coach. He began preparing the 1921 team, but the Red Sox coaxed him out of retirement before the first game of the season, upon his return to the Sox in 1921, Pratt batted over.300. He ended his career with the Detroit Tigers and his career batting average was.292 over twelve seasons, with an on-base percentage of.345. He had a total of 968 RBIs and 856 runs scored. historicbaseball. com/players/p/pratt_del. html http, //bioproj. sabr. org/bioproj. cfm. a=v&v=a&bid=1124&pid=11446
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L. W. Robert Jr.
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Lawrence Wood Chip Robert, Jr. was a 1908 graduate of the Georgia Institute of Technology and founder of noted Atlanta engineering and architectural firm, Robert and Company. While at Georgia Tech, Robert was the captain of the country team in 1906 and the Georgia Tech football and baseball teams in 1908. Robert attended Georgia Tech from the fall of 1903 until the summer of 1909, graduating with a degree in civil engineering 1908 and he founded Robert and Company, an architectural firm, in 1917. Robert was the president of the Atlanta Crackers, Atlantas minor league baseball team, Robert was appointed to the Georgia Board of Regents in 1937. He was a member during the Cocking affair and voted with the governor to remove Walter Cocking, Robert was the first-ever recipient of Georgia Techs Alumni Distinguished Service Award in 1934. He is the namesake for the Alumni House, the building in which the Georgia Tech Alumni Association has been located since 1979, a scholarship fund was named in his honor in 1971 and designated for the National Merit Scholarship Program in 1979. He was inducted into the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame in 1989 and his daughter, Louisa Robert, was a member of the 1932 United States Olympic team
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Nathan Dougherty
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Nathan Washington Bign Dougherty was a Hall of Fame college football player for the Tennessee Volunteers football team. He later became the Dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Tennessee, for this as well as his playing days Dougherty is considered by many to be the founding father of UT Athletics. Dougherty was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1967, Dougherty played football and basketball at the University of Tennessee. He came to the university from Scott County, Virginia, Dougherty played guard for the Tennessee Volunteers from 1906 to 1909, standing 6-foot-2 and weighing 185 pounds. Dougherty was a standout in the sport before it became popular around the country. Of the few accolades that were bestowed on individuals, Dougherty was an honoree and he was named to the All Southern team in 1907 and 1908. The 1908 team was considered the best Tennessee football season up to that point. Vanderbilt coach Dan McGugin noted All things considered, Leach was perhaps the best football player of the year in Dixie and he was captain of the football team in 1909. Dougherty was captain of the Tennessee Volunteers mens basketball team in 1908–09, Dougherty coached the George Washington Universitys basketball team during the 1914–15 season, and compiled a 5–9 record. Dougherty was dean of the University of Tennessee College of Engineering at Knoxville from 1940 to 1956 and he was also the chairman of the UT Athletic Council from 1917 to 1956. An engineering building at the school is named after him, the building caught fire in November 2006, but was later reopened. Dougherty was instrumental in the establishment of the Southern Conference, being its first secretary-treasurer
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T. C. Locke
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Thomas Courtney Locke was a college football player and for eight years was adjutant general of Alabama. He was a prominent guard for the Auburn Tigers of Auburn University from 1907 to 1909, in the 10 to 2 loss against LSU in 1908, Locke blocked the punt which Doc Fenton recovered for a safety. He was also captain of the basketball team and he was selected All-Southern in 1909
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Robert L. Stovall
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Robert Luther Strauss Big Stovall was a college football player and a unit foreman of the state highway department. Stovall was a center for the 1908 LSU Tigers football team which went 10–0 and was selected as national champion by the National Championship Foundation and his younger brother Rowson Stovall was also on the team, called Little Stovall in contrast to his Big brother. Robert was selected All-Southern by Grantland Rice in 1909, robert L. Stovall at Find a Grave
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William C. Gloth
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William Conrad Billy Gloth was an American football player and coach. Gloth was a center on Virginia Cavaliers football teams of the University of Virginia and he was selected for the All-Southern team of a well-known New York authority on sports in 1907. He was the head college football coach for the Virginia Military Institute Keydets located in Lexington, Virginia. His career coaching record at VMI was 7 wins,6 losses and this ranks him 18th at VMI in total wins and 12th at VMI in winning percentage. Gloth at the College Football Data Warehouse
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Doc Fenton
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George Ellwood Doc Fenton was an American college football player. He was elected to the Louisiana State University Hall of Fame in 1937, Doc Fenton was born on April 30,1887 in Scranton, Pennsylvania to Robert Emmett Fenton and Catherine Farr. After leaving Scranton High School, Fenton began his football career at St. Michaels College, in Canada. At St. Michaels, he played rugby, Fenton later talked about his time at St. Michaels by stating “I got all the fundamentals playing rugby in Toronto. I learned how to kick on the run, and I learned how to operate in an open field. ”Fenton earned the reputation of doing everything well with a football and he later played football at Mansfield State Normal School in Pennsylvania from 1904 to 1906. He started out as an end at Mansfield, but later became a star receiver in 1906, mike Lally was his teammate at both Mansfield and LSU. One account reads In Lally and Fenton the University has a pair that can hardly be equaled. In the game Fenton showed that he has lost none of his ability to dodge, his swiftness as a runner, his power as a punter and kicker, Fenton was heavily recruited by LSU and Mississippi A&M. Fenton ultimately ended up signing with LSU for the 1907 season. Fenton was selected for LSUs All-Time football team in 1935 and he was nominated though not selected for an Associated Press All-Time Southeast 1869–1919 era team. One of Fentons favorite plays was the tackle over tackle play, in this play, Fenton faked a handoff to a back, then gave the ball to a tackle and led the blocking behind the other tackle. “Doc was the hub, ” recalled tackle Marshall “Cap” Gandy and he was shifted to quarterback early during the 1908 season. The team went 10–0 and was selected as national champion by the National Championship Foundation, Fentons 125 points led the nation in scoring. He had a school record 36 extra points and 6 field goals, the National Football Foundation selected Fenton as a retroactive Heisman Trophy winner of 1908. Fenton was selected All-Southern by Nash Buckingham in the Memphis Commercial Appeal, in the 10–2 win over Auburn, Auburn scored a safety when Fenton was knocked unconscious by a spectators cane as he tried to get out of the endzone. He returned a kick 95 yards for at touchdown the following week against Mississippi A&M. Fenton again started at quarterback on the 1909 team which finished second in the SIAA behind Sewanee and he was selected All-Southern by John Heisman. George Ellwood Doc Fenton at the College Football Hall of Fame
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Fuzzy Woodruff
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Lorenzo Ferguson Fuzzy Woodruff was an early 20th-century American sportswriter known throughout most of the southeast for his vivid writing. He was also a music and drama critic and he began his newspaper career as a member of the Montgomery Advertiser in 1907. Louis Dispatch, the Atlanta Constitution, the Atlanta Georgian, only the remarkable punting of Simkins kept the game from being a debacle. I recall vividly one incident of the game, which demonstrates clearly just how surprising was Sewanees victory, the Purple was taking time out. They began this early in the game, when their athletes appeared tired and worn whereas Auburn men were full of fight and fire. A Sewanee player was down, his head being bathed. Suter, the Sewanee coach, and Heisman, coach, said the boy, lifting his tired head from the ground, we just cant stand this stuff. Weve never seen anything like it, Heisman didnt say anything, I guess he thought a great deal. He told me afterwards that he had never felt so sorry for a man on a field as he had for Suter at that moment. A Sewanee legend of just a few years after, Henry D. Phillips, was called by Woodruff the greatest football player who ever sank cleated shoes into a line south of the Mason-Dixon line. Of Vanderbilts winningest coach Dan McGugin, Woodruff wrote The plain facts of the business are that McGugin stood out in the South like Gulliver among the sons of Lilliput. There was no foeman worthy of the McGugin steel, the article by Fuzzy Woodruff was not called for. The last game he ever covered was the Alabama–Tennessee game of 1929, woodruffs tombstone is inscribed Copy All In. Three rifle volleys were fired over the grave and taps played on a bugle as his casket was lowered into Crestlawn Cemetery. Woodruff was buried in a bloodstained overseas uniform that he brought back, the blood on the uniform was not his own but that of a foreign youth who died in his arms as Fuzzy led his men over the top at the Battle of Soissons. He was a boy and I liked him declared Fuzzy in explaining the attachment to the uniform. A History of Southern Football, 1890-1928 Fuzzy Woodruff at Find a Grave
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Vanderbilt University
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Vanderbilt University is a private research university founded in 1873 and located in Nashville, Tennessee. It was named in honor of shipping and rail magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt, Vanderbilt hoped that his gift and the greater work of the university would help to heal the sectional wounds inflicted by the Civil War. Today, Vanderbilt enrolls approximately 12,000 students from all 50 U. S. states and over 90 foreign countries in four undergraduate and six graduate, despite its urban surroundings, the campus itself is a national arboretum and features over 300 different species of trees and shrubs. Vanderbilt is ranked as one of the top universities for its teaching, research opportunities. It is ranked 15th on the list of best national universities generated by U. S. News & World Report, however, lack of funds and the ravaged state of the Reconstruction Era South delayed the opening of the college. Indeed, the McTyeires had met at St. Francis Street Methodist Church in Mobile, Cornelius Vanderbilt, who was the wealthiest man in the United States at the time, was considering philanthropy as he was at an advanced age. He had been planning to establish a university on Staten Island, New York, however, McTyeire convinced him to donate $500,000 to endow Central University in order to contribute to strengthening the ties which should exist between all sections of our common country. The endowment was increased to $1 million and would be only one of two philanthropic causes financially supported by Vanderbilt. Though he never expressed any desire that the university be named after himself, McTyeire, Vanderbilt died in 1877 without seeing the school named after him. One of the trustees, Hezekiah William Foote, was a Confederate veteran. The Treasurer of the Board of Trust from 1872 to 1875, Alexander Little Page Green, whose portrait hangs in Kirkland Hall, was a Methodist preacher and a former slave owner. His son-in-law, Robert A. Young, was a Methodist minister who served as the Financial Secretary on the Board of Trust from 1874 to 1882, retiring from the board in 1902. The first building, Main Building, later known as Kirkland Hall, was designed by William Crawford Smith, in the fall of 1875, about 200 students enrolled at Vanderbilt, and in October the university was dedicated. Bishop McTyeire was named Chairman of the Board of Trust for life by Vanderbilt as a stipulation of his endowment, McTyeire named Landon Garland, his mentor from Randolph-Macon College in Virginia and then-Chancellor of the University of Mississippi, as chancellor. Garland shaped the structure and hired the schools faculty, many of whom were renowned scholars in their respective fields. However, most of this faculty left after disputes with Bishop McTyeire, when the first fraternity chapter, Phi Delta Theta, was established on campus in 1876, it was shut down by the faculty, only to be reestablished as a secret society in 1877. Meanwhile, Old Gym, designed by Dutch-born architect Peter J. Williamson, was built in 1879–1880, by 1883, the Board of Trust passed a resolution allowing fraternities on campus, and more chapters were established in 1884. During the first 40 years, the Board of Trust, and therefore the university, was under the control of the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, conflicts escalated after James H. Kirkland was appointed chancellor in 1893
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John Heisman
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John William Heisman was a player and coach of American football, basketball, and baseball, as well as a sportswriter and actor. His 1917 Georgia Tech Golden Tornado were recognized as the national champion and he served as the athletic director at Georgia Tech from 1904 to 1919 and at Rice from 1924 to 1927. While at Georgia Tech, he also was president of the Atlanta Crackers baseball team, fuzzy Woodruff dubbed Heisman the pioneer of Southern football. Heisman was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1954 and his entry there notes that Heisman stands only behind Amos Alonzo Stagg, Pop Warner, and Walter Camp as a master innovator of the brand of football of his day. One writer says Heisman, Stagg, and Warner constitute the Football Trinity, the Heisman Trophy, awarded annually to the seasons most outstanding college football player, is named after him. Heisman was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the son of Bavarian German immigrants Sara and he grew up in northwestern Pennsylvania near Titusville, where he played varsity football for Titusville High School from 1884 to 1886, and was salutatorian of his graduating class. Although he was a student, he confessed he was football mad. Heismans father refused to him play at Titusville, calling football bestial. He went on to football as a lineman at Brown University and at the University of Pennsylvania. In constant dread that his immediate teammates—guards weighing 212 and 243—would fall on him and he graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1892. In his book Principles of Football, Heisman described his strategy, The coach should be masterful and commanding. He has no time to say please or mister, at times he must be severe, arbitrary, and little short of a czar. Heisman always used a megaphone at practice, Heisman first coached at Oberlin College in 1892. Wrote The Oberlin Review in 1892, Mr. Heisman has entirely remade our football and he has taught us scientific football. Influenced by Yale and Pudge Heffelfinger, Heisman implemented seven-man interference and his best lineman at Oberlin was the half German, half Hawaiian John Henry Wise. Heisman also used a pass and a double pass. Heisman returned to Oberlin in 1894, in 1893 he moved to Buchtel College, where he helped make the first of many permanent alterations to the sport of football. It was then customary for the center to begin a play by rolling the ball backwards, under Heisman, the center began tossing the ball to Clark, a practice that evolved into the snap that today begins every play
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Georgia Institute of Technology
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The Georgia Institute of Technology is a public research university in Atlanta, Georgia, in the United States. It is a part of the University System of Georgia and has campuses in Savannah, Georgia, Metz, France, Athlone, Ireland, Shenzhen, China. The educational institution was founded in 1885 as the Georgia School of Technology as part of Reconstruction plans to build an economy in the post-Civil War Southern United States. Initially, it offered only a degree in mechanical engineering, by 1901, its curriculum had expanded to include electrical, civil, and chemical engineering. In 1948, the changed its name to reflect its evolution from a trade school to a larger and more capable technical institute. Today, Georgia Tech is organized into six colleges and contains about 31 departments/units, with emphasis on science and it is well recognized for its degree programs in engineering, computing, business administration, the sciences, design, and liberal arts. Student athletics, both organized and intramural, are a part of student and alumni life, Georgia Tech fields eight mens and seven womens teams that compete in the NCAA Division I athletics and the Football Bowl Subdivision. Georgia Tech is a member of the Coastal Division in the Atlantic Coast Conference, the idea of a technology school in Georgia was introduced in 1865 during the Reconstruction period. However, because the American South of that era was mainly populated by workers and few technical developments were occurring. In 1882, the Georgia State Legislature authorized a committee, led by Harris and they were impressed by the polytechnic educational models developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Worcester County Free Institute of Industrial Science. On October 13,1885, Georgia Governor Henry D. McDaniel signed the bill to create, in 1887, Atlanta pioneer Richard Peters donated to the state 4 acres of the site of a failed garden suburb called Peters Park. The site was bounded on the south by North Avenue, and he then sold five adjoining acres of land to the state for US$10,000. This land was near Atlantas northern city limits at the time of its founding, the surrender of the city took place on the southwestern boundary of the modern Georgia Tech campus in 1864. The Georgia School of Technology opened in the fall of 1888 with two buildings, One building had classrooms to teach students, The second building featured a shop and had a foundry, forge, boiler room, and engine room. It was designed for students to work and produce goods to sell, on October 20,1905, U. S. President Theodore Roosevelt visited Georgia Tech. On the steps of Tech Tower, Roosevelt delivered a speech about the importance of technological education and he then shook hands with every student. Georgia Techs Evening School of Commerce began holding classes in 1912, the evening school admitted its first female student in 1917, although the state legislature did not officially authorize attendance by women until 1920. Annie T. Wise became the first female graduate in 1919 and was Georgia Techs first female faculty member the following year
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Grantland Rice
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Henry Grantland Rice was an early 20th-century American sportswriter known for his elegant prose. His writing was published in newspapers around the country and broadcast on the radio, Grantland Rice was born in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, the son of Bolling Hendon Rice, a cotton dealer, and his wife, Mary Beulah Rice. His grandfather Major H. W. Rice was a Confederate veteran of the Civil War, on the football team, he lettered in the year of 1899 as an end and averaged two injuries a year. On the baseball team, he was captain in 1901, Vanderbilt coach Dan McGugin in Spaldings Football Guides summation of the season in the SIAA wrote, The standing. First, Vanderbilt, second, Sewanee, a mighty good second, Rice coached the 1908 Vanderbilt baseball team. After taking early jobs with the Atlanta Journal and the Cleveland News, the job at the Tennessean was given to him by former Sewanee Tigers coach Billy Suter, who coached baseball teams against which Rice played while at Vanderbilt. Afterwards he obtained a series of jobs with major newspapers in the Northeastern United States. In 1914 he began his Sportlight column in the New York Tribune and he also provided monthly Grantland Rice Sportlights as part of Paramount newsreels from 1925–1954. In dramatic lore they are known as famine, pestilence, destruction and their real names are, Stuhldreher, Miller, Crowley and Layden. The passage added great import to the event described and elevated it to a level far beyond that of a football game. He became even better known after his columns were nationally syndicated beginning in 1930 and he and his writing are among the reasons that the 1920s in the United States are sometimes referred to as the Golden Age of Sports. Rices all-time All-America backfield was Jim Thorpe, Red Grange, Ken Strong and his sense of honor can be seen in his own actions. Before leaving for service in World War I, he entrusted his entire fortune, about $75,000, on his return from the war, Rice discovered that his friend had lost all the money in bad investments, and then had committed suicide. Rice accepted the blame for putting “that much temptation” in his friends way, Rice then made monthly contributions to the man’s widow throughout his life. Appleton and Company of New York, Rice married Fannie Katherine Hollis on April 11,1906, they had one child, the actress Florence Rice. Rice died at the age 73 on July 13,1954 and he is interred at Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx, New York City. For when the One Great Scorer comes To mark against your name, He writes – not that you won or lost – But how you played the Game. The loafer has no come-back and the quitter no reply, When the Anvil Chorus echoes, as it will, against the sky, But there’s one quick answer ready that will wrap them in a hood, Make good
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The Commercial Appeal
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The Commercial Appeal is a daily newspaper of Memphis, Tennessee, and its surrounding metropolitan area. It is owned by the Gannett Company, its owner, The E. W. Scripps Company, also owned the former afternoon paper, the Memphis Press-Scimitar. The 2016 purchase by Gannett of Journal Media Group effectively gave it control of the two papers in western and central Tennessee, uniting the Commercial Appeal with Nashvilles The Tennessean. The Commercial Appeal is a morning paper. It is distributed primarily in Greater Memphis, including Shelby, Fayette, and Tipton counties in Tennessee and DeSoto, Tate and these are the contiguous counties to the city of Memphis. In 1994, The Commercial Appeal won a Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning by Michael Ramirez, the papers name comes from a 19th-century merger between two predecessors, the Memphis Commercial and the Appeal. The Appeal had a history during the American Civil War. On June 6,1862, the presses and plates were loaded into a boxcar and moved to Grenada, the press was hidden and saved, and publication resumed in Memphis, using it, on November 5,1865. Another early paper, The Avalanche, was incorporated later in the 19th century, the paper is properly The Commercial Appeal and not the Memphis Commercial Appeal as it is often called, although the predecessor Appeal was formally the Memphis Daily Appeal. The paper in the 1940s had a well known columnist Paul Flowers who wrote the Greenhouse column, the Commercial Appeal had a mixed record on civil rights. Despite its Confederate background the paper won a Pulitzer Prize in 1923 for its coverage, from 1916 to 1968, the paper published a cartoon called Hambones Meditations. The cartoon featured a man, Hambone, that many African Americans came to regard as a racist caricature. In 1917, the published the scheduled time and place for the upcoming Lynching of Ell Persons. During the Civil Rights Movement, the paper generally avoided coverage and it did take a stance against pro-segregation rioters during the Ole Miss riot of 1962. However, its owner, Scripps-Howard, exerted a generally conservative, the paper opposed the Memphis sanitation strike, portraying both labor organizers and Martin Luther King Jr. as outside meddlers. This manipulation of the Commercial Appeal was part of the FBIs counterintelligence program against black nationalists in the late 1960s, in the fall of 2007, the Appeal touched off a controversial policy that would have linked specific stories and specific advertisers. The proposal was greeted by outrage among media analysts, so the authors of the so-called monetization memo-- the Appeals editor, at the end of 2008, The Commercial Appeal posted a controversial database listing Tennessee residents with permits to carry handguns. The database is a record in Tennessee but had not been posted online
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Edgar Wingard
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Edgar Ramey Wingard was an American football, basketball, and baseball coach and college athletics administrator. In 1908, Wingard led his LSU team to a record of 10–0, the team has been recognized as a national champion by the National Championship Foundation, although LSU does not officially claim a national title that season. Wingard was the coach of the basketball team at Butler from 1904 to 1906. He also coached the LSU Tigers baseball team in 1908 and 1909, Wingard died of a cerebral hemorrhage in the summer of 1927 at a hospital in Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania. Edgar Wingard at the College Football Data Warehouse Edgar Wingard at College Basketball at Sports-Reference. com
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Louisiana State University
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Louisiana State University is a public coeducational university located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The university was founded in 1853 in what is now known as Pineville, Louisiana, LSU is the flagship institution of the Louisiana State University System. In 2015, the university enrolled over 26,000 undergraduate and over 5,000 graduate students in 14 schools, several of LSUs graduate schools, such as the E. J. Ourso College of Business and the Paul M. Hebert Law Center, have received recognition in their respective fields of study. LSUs athletics department fields teams in 21 varsity sports, and is a member of the NCAA, the university is represented by its mascot, Mike the Tiger. Louisiana State University Agricultural & Mechanical College had its origin in land grants made by the United States government in 1806,1811. It was founded as an academy and is still today steeped in military tradition. In 1853, the Louisiana General Assembly established the Seminary of Learning of the State of Louisiana near Pineville in Rapides Parish in Central Louisiana. Modeled initially after Virginia Military Institute, the institution opened with five professors and nineteen cadets on January 2,1860, the original location of the Old LSU Site is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. On January 26,1861, after only a year at the helm, the school closed on June 30,1861, with the start of the American Civil War. During the course of the war, the university reopened briefly in April 1863, the losses sustained by the institution during the Union occupation were heavy, and after 1863 the seminary remained closed for the remainder of the Civil War. Following the surrender of the Confederates at Appomattox Court House on April 9,1865 and these cannons had been captured from Confederate forces after the close of the war and had been used during the initial firing upon Fort Sumter in April 1861. The cannons are still displayed in front of LSUs Military Science/Aerospace Studies Building, the seminary officially reopened its doors on October 2,1865, only to be burned October 15,1869. On November 1,1869, the institution resumed its exercises in Baton Rouge, in 1870, the name of the institution was officially changed to Louisiana State University. It temporarily opened in New Orleans, June 1,1874 and this prompted the final name change for the university to the Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College. On June 7,1925, Oscar B, turner, a professor of agronomy, was murdered by an axe-wielding assailant on campus. On April 30,1926, the present LSU campus was formally dedicated, prior to this, LSU utilized the quarters of the Institute for the Deaf, Mute, and Blind. Land for the present campus was purchased in 1918, construction started in 1922, the campus was originally designed for 3000 students, but was cut back due to budget problems
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University of Virginia
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The University of Virginia, frequently referred to simply as Virginia, is a public research university and the flagship for the Commonwealth of Virginia. Founded in 1819 by Declaration of Independence author Thomas Jefferson, UVA is known for its foundations, student-run honor code. UNESCO designated UVA as Americas first and only collegiate World Heritage Site in 1987, the university was established in 1819, and its original governing Board of Visitors included Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and James Monroe. Monroe was the sitting President of the United States at the time of its foundation, former Presidents Jefferson and Madison were UVAs first two rectors and the Academical Village and Jefferson conceived and designed the original courses of study. The universitys research endeavors are highly recognized, in 2015, Science honored UVA faculty for discovering two of its top 10 annual scientific breakthroughs, from the fields of Medicine and Psychology. UVA is one of 62 institutions in the Association of American Universities and it is the only AAU member university in Virginia. UVA is classified as a Research University with Very High Research by the Carnegie Foundation, the university was the first non-founding member, and the first university of the American South, to attain AAU membership in 1904. UVAs academic strength is broad, with 121 majors across the eight undergraduate, students compete in 26 collegiate sports and UVA leads the Atlantic Coast Conference in mens NCAA team national championships with 17. UVA is second in womens NCAA titles with 7, UVA was awarded the Capital One Cup in 2015 after fielding the top overall mens athletics programs in the nation. Students come to attend the university in Charlottesville from all 50 states and 147 countries, the historic 1, 682-acre campus is internationally protected by UNESCO and considered one of the most beautiful collegiate grounds in the country. UVA additionally maintains 2,913 acres southeast of the city, the university also manages the College at Wise in Southwest Virginia, and until 1972 operated George Mason University and the University of Mary Washington in Northern Virginia. In 1817, three Presidents and Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court John Marshall joined 24 other dignitaries at a meeting held in the Mountain Top Tavern at Rockfish Gap, after some deliberation, they selected nearby Charlottesville as the site of the new University of Virginia. Farmland just outside Charlottesville was purchased from James Monroe by the Board of Visitors as Central College, the school laid its first buildings cornerstone late in that same year, and the Commonwealth of Virginia chartered the new university on January 25,1819. John Hartwell Cocke collaborated with James Madison, Monroe, and Joseph Carrington Cabell to fulfill Jeffersons dream to establish the university, Cocke and Jefferson were appointed to the building committee to supervise the construction. The universitys first classes met on March 7,1825, another innovation of the new university was that higher education would be separated from religious doctrine. Jefferson opined to philosopher Thomas Cooper that a professorship of theology should have no place in our institution, Jefferson was intimately involved in the university to the end, hosting Sunday dinners at his Monticello home for faculty and students until his death. Thus, he eschewed mention of his accomplishments, such as the Louisiana Purchase. This was a source of frustration for Jefferson, who assembled the students during the schools first year, on October 3,1825, to such behavior
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1908 College Football All-America Team
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The 1908 College Football All-America team is composed of college football players who were selected as All-Americans for the 1908 college football season. Camps 1908 All-America Team was published in Colliers Weekly, and Whitneys selections were published in Outing magazine, many other sports writers, newspapers, coaches and others also selected All-America teams in 1910. The Philadelphia Inquirer published a consensus All-America team based on the first-team All-America selections made by 25 football experts, in its official listing of Consensus All-America Selections, the NCAA designates players who were selected by either Camp or Whitney as consensus All-Americans. Using this criteria, the NCAA recognizes 16 players as consensus All-American for the 1908 football season, the consensus All-Americans are identified in bold on the list below. Waugh, Syracuse Edward Rich, Dartmouth Charles Nourse, Harvard Germany Schulz, Michigan Wallace Philoon, Army Joseph C. R
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