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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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Big Eight Conference
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The Big Eight Conference was a National Collegiate Athletic Association -affiliated Division I-A college athletic association that sponsored football. Additionally, the University of Iowa was an member of the MVIAA. The conference was dissolved in 1996, the Big Eight kept its headquarters in Kansas City, Missouri. In February 1995, the Big Eight and the Southwest Conference announced that the two leagues had reached an agreement to form a new conference. The eight members of the Big Eight joined with SWC schools Texas, Texas A&M, Baylor, and Texas Tech to form the Big 12 Conference the following year. A vote was conducted on whether to keep the new headquarters in Kansas City. The two Oklahoma schools, all four Texas schools, and Colorado voted for the move while both Kansas schools, Nebraska, Missouri, and Iowa State voted for Kansas City. The University of Iowa who was also a member of the Western Conference was also a joint member of the conference, Iowa only participated in football and outdoor mens track and field. In 1908, Drake University and Iowa Agricultural College joined the MVIAA, Iowa who was a joint member departed in 1911 to only compete in the Western Conference, but Kansas State University joined the conference in 1913. Nebraska left in 1918 to play as an independent for two seasons before returning in 1920, in 1919, the University of Oklahoma and Saint Louis University applied for membership, but were disapproved due to deficient management of their athletic programs. The conference then added Grinnell College in 1919, with the University of Oklahoma applying again, Oklahoma A&M University joined in 1925, bringing conference membership to ten, an all-time high. At a meeting in Lincoln, Nebraska, on May 19,1928, Six of the seven state schools formed a conference that was initially known as the Big Six Conference. Just before the start of practice, the six schools announced they would retain the MVIAA name for formal purposes. However, fans and media continued to call it the Big Six, the three private schools – Drake, Grinnell, and Washington University – joined with Oklahoma A&M, becoming known as the Missouri Valley Conference. For the remainder of the Big Eights run, both conferences claimed 1907 as their date, as well as the same history through 1927. To this day, it has never been established which conference was the original. Conference membership grew with the addition of the University of Colorado on December 1,1947, later that month, Reaves E. Peters was hired as Commissioner of Officials and Assistant Secretary and set up the first conference offices in Kansas City, Missouri. With the addition of Colorado, the unofficial name became the Big Seven Conference, coincidentally
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William C. "King" Cole
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William Cutler King Cole was a college football player and coach. He played as a tackle and end for the University of Michigans 1902 Point-a-Minute championship football team and he played for an undefeated national championship team at Michigan in 1902 and was assistant coach to Fielding H. Yost for a second undefeated national championship team in 1904. He later became the football coach at Marietta College, University of Virginia. He led the Nebraska Cornhuskers to two Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association championships, Cole was born on October 7,1881 in Washington County, Ohio. He attended high school at Charlottesville, Virginia before enrolling at Marietta College in Ohio and he played three years of college football for Marietta before graduating in 1902. In the fall of 1902, Cole enrolled in the law school at the University of Michigan, while attending law school, Cole played football for Fielding H. Yosts Point-a-Minute football team in 1902. He was one of the stars of the 1902 Michigan Wolverines football team finished the season 11–0, outscored opponents 644 to 12. Cole started three games at tackle and four games at right end for the 1902 Wolverines. In addition, Cole played Centerfield on the 1903 Michigan Baseball team, Cole received his law degree in 1905. With the performance of Yosts Point-a-Minute teams, his players were in demand as coaches by universities hoping to reproduce Yosts success. Accordingly, Cole agreed to serve as the coach at Marietta College in 1903—even before completing his legal degree at Michigan. In 1904, he returned to Ann Arbor to complete his legal education, as Yosts assistant, Cole helped lead the Wolverines to another undefeated season and national championship in 1904. In January 1905, Cole agreed to be the football coach at the University of Virginia after graduating in the spring. He was hired at a salary of $1,800, Cole coached the Virginia team to a 5–4 record in 1905. After the season ended, Cole decided to leave coaching and begin his career as an attorney, after leaving Virginia at the end of the 1905 football season, Cole practiced law in Toledo, Ohio. In late August 1906, Cole was persuaded to return to Virginia to serve as coach for another season. In 1906, his Virginia football team improved its record to 7–2, in January 1907, Cole was hired by the University of Nebraska to take over as head coach of its football program. From 1907 to 1910, he coached at Nebraska and compiled a 25–8–3 record, Cole developed many strong players at Nebraska, and his Cornhuskers teams twice won the Missouri Valley Conference championship
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Nebraska Field
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Nebraska Field was an American football stadium in the midwestern United States, located in Lincoln, Nebraska. At the northeast corner of North 10th Street and North T Street, Nebraska Field was succeeded by the new Memorial Stadium in 1923, which was built in the same location. The local portion of North 10th Street was eventually renamed Stadium Drive in the following the completion of Memorial Stadium. The present playing field at Memorial Stadium is conventionally aligned north-south, Nebraska Fields exact capacity is not recorded, but the largest recorded attendance was 16,000 in its final game, against Notre Dame on November 30,1922. It was the first of two losses for the legendary Four Horsemen of Notre Dame, Notre Dame was undefeated in 1924. The final game at Nebraska Field in 1922 was also the last attended by Nebraskas longtime trainer Jack Best, who had served since the programs inception in 1890
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1908 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team
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The 1908 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team was the representative of the University of Nebraska in the 1908 college football season. The team was coached by William C. King Cole and played their games at Antelope Field in Lincoln. Coach Cole brought his 8-2 record from 1907 with him into his second year at Nebraska, plans were beginning to materialize to replace Antelope Field, and this season would feature a visit from legend-in-the-making Jim Thorpe. Nebraska again opened the season against Peru State, and again made a win out of it. Doane fell further in the series to 2-12, long suffering from a lengthening string of Nebraska victories, Grinnell got the attention of the Cornhuskers by scoring first in this game. Nebraska responded by keeping them off the board for the rest of the game while attaching four of their own touchdowns to advance to 6-2 in the series, Nebraska once again traveled north to Minneapolis on another mission to attempt to take down the mighty Golden Gophers. Both teams made it a game, with both sides making impressive goal line stands, and when time ran out there were still no points on the board. Nebraska didnt put up such a score, but held Haskell to zero to notch up a 3rd shutout in the last four games. After a three-year break, Nebraska and Iowa resumed their series, for the second week in a row, the Cornhuskers found themselves fighting for the win against a team from Iowa. The Cyclones fought to a 17-17 tie in the 2nd half, the home defeat snapped an 11-game home field winning streak, and was the first since a 6-8 loss also delivered by Kansas in 1906. This was the only time Wabash met Nebraska to settle affairs on the field. Three Wabash errors each eventually resulted in Cornhusker touchdowns, for the second week in a row, Nebraska met a team that it would only see one time in program history. This game was arranged to bring the heralded Jim Thorpe up against the Cornhuskers, thorpes Carlisle team certainly did not disappoint those who came to see impressive football being played. Although Thorpe reportedly struggled at times during the game, Carlisle still easily downed Nebraska in Lincoln 37-6, coach Cole finished his second year with a Nebraska career total of 15-4-1, and the Cornhuskers program record again improved slightly to 108-41-6. Nebraska finished 2nd in the Missouri Valley Conference, and had an abbreviated two-year conference record of 3-1 and this was the last year Nebraska played home games at Antelope Field. Next season, the new Nebraska Field was built on campus, Antelope Field was sent into the history books with an all-time Cornhusker football record of 64-8-2, including exhibition games
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1910 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team
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The 1910 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team was the representative of the University of Nebraska in the 1910 college football season. The team was coached by William C. King Cole and played their games at Nebraska Field in Lincoln. Coach Cole may have come into his 4th year with a bit of a chip on his shoulder and his first and second season teams had each contributed to improving Nebraskas overall program winning percentage, but the previous years 3-3-2 final tally had been a setback. Nebraska used this meeting with Peru State as a tuneup practice game, playing backups. The Cornhuskers closed out their series with Peru State with a record of 3-0. The Cornhuskers won yet another in an increasingly one-sided series with the Coyotes, Nebraskas stretch of frustration continued, as once again the Golden Gophers soundly defeated the Cornhuskers in Minneapolis, leaving Nebraska winless in the series since 1902. Minnesotas series lead increased to 8-1-1, for the first time in the series, Denver traveled to Lincoln to face the Cornhuskers at home, but this game would also be the last meeting between the squads. Coming off the Minnesota loss, the team together to function as a unit. The Cornhuskers finished out the series with another win and stayed perfect over Denver at 4-0, for the second week in a row, Nebraska survived a hard fought and low scoring affair, escaping with a repeat 6-0 win. Nebraska secured at least a share of the title with the win. The Cornhuskers put up 24 unanswered points to secure their 4th straight shutout victory to close their abbreviated conference slate, the win secured Nebraskas position as sole conference champions, and moved Nebraska farther ahead in their series with Iowa State to 8-3. The Cornhuskers piled up an astonishing 1,150 yards of offense, Nebraska improved over Haskell all-time to 5-2. Coach Cole went out in style with the record-setting 119-0 blasting delivered to Haskell at Nebraska Field and his four-year record stood at 25-8-3, and his teams improved the programs overall record to 118-45-8. Coach Coles conference record ended at 5-2-1, winning a share of the 1907 conference title and winning the 1910 title in his final year outright
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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
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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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Knox College (Illinois)
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Knox College is a four-year coeducational private liberal arts college located in Galesburg, Illinois, United States. S. It is one of 40 schools featured in Loren Popes influential book Colleges That Change Lives, Knox College was founded in 1837 by anti-slavery social reformers, led by George Washington Gale. Many of the founders, including the Rev. Samuel Wright, the original name for the school was Knox Manual Labor College, but it has been known by its present name since 1857. The colleges name came about through a compromise among its founders, arguments have been made that the college was named for Calvinist leader John Knox, but it is not certain for which Knox it was named. Some wanted the college named for one Knox, some for the other, certainly most of them were pious enough to want the churchman and fighters enough to want the soldier as well. The presidency of Jonathan Blanchard led the school out of debt, both Gale and Blanchard were forced out of the school as a result. Knox was the site of the debate between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas in 1858. The Old Main building is the site from the debates that stands today. Knox College was ranked 71st among liberal arts colleges by the 2011 edition of Americas Best Colleges in U. S. News & World Report. In August 2010, Knox was listed as one of the Best-Kept Secrets,10 Colleges You Should Know About by the Huffington Post, based on a Unigo survey completed by over 30,000 students. In the August 11,2010 issue of Forbes magazine, Knox was ranked among the Top 100 liberal arts colleges listed and over 600 evaluated, In the 2009 rankings, Knox was 101st of 600 listed. The Princeton Review consistently cites Knox on its Best of lists, most recently in 2010 as one of the Best 371 Schools, the Kiplinger private colleges rankings for 2010 placed Knox 47th on its list of 50 best values in liberal arts, measuring academic quality and affordability. Knox College is also one of 40 schools featured in the book Colleges That Change Lives by former New York Times Education Editor Loren Pope. In the 2009–2010 academic year, The Chronicle of Higher Education noted Knox as one of 9 bachelor-level institutions to produce 2 or more Fulbright Awards for U. S. Scholars. In 2009, a Knox study of found that the college ranks in the top 3% of colleges by based on graduates who go on to earn a Ph. D. Knox employs a 3–3 academic calendar rather than a traditional semester-based approach, in each of the three 10-week terms, students take only three courses. Faculty members teach only two courses each term, giving more time for one-on-one mentoring. No matter what course of students decide to pursue, education at Knox contains common elements
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Omaha, Nebraska
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Omaha is the largest city in the state of Nebraska and the county seat of Douglas County. Omaha is located in the Midwestern United States on the Missouri River, Omaha is the anchor of the Omaha-Council Bluffs metropolitan area, which includes Council Bluffs, Iowa, across the Missouri River from Omaha. According to the 2010 census, Omahas population was 408,958, according to the 2014 Population Estimates, Omahas population was 446,599. Including its suburbs, Omaha formed the 60th-largest metropolitan area in the United States in 2013, the Omaha-Council Bluffs-Fremont, Nebraska-IA Combined Statistical Area is 931,667, according to the U. S. Census Bureaus 2013 estimate. There are nearly 1.3 million residents within the Greater Omaha area, comprising a 50-mile radius of Downtown Omaha, Omahas pioneer period began in 1854, when the city was founded by speculators from neighboring Council Bluffs, Iowa. The city was founded along the Missouri River, and a crossing called Lone Tree Ferry earned the city its nickname, Omaha introduced this new West to the world in 1898, when it played host to the Worlds Fair, dubbed the Trans-Mississippi Exposition. During the 19th century, Omahas central location in the United States spurred the city to become an important national transportation hub, throughout the rest of the 19th century, the transportation and jobbing sectors were important in the city, along with its railroads and breweries. In the 20th century, the Omaha Stockyards, once the worlds largest, Omaha is also the home to five Fortune 1000 headquarters, Green Plains Renewable Energy, TD Ameritrade, Valmont Industries, Werner Enterprises, and West Corporation. And Leo A Daly, the Gallup Organization, of Gallup Poll fame, Enron began in Omaha as Northern Natural Gas in 1930, before taking over a smaller Houston company in 1985 to form InterNorth, which Kenneth Lay moved permanently to Houston, in 1987. The modern economy of Omaha is diverse and built on skilled knowledge jobs, in 2009, Forbes identified Omaha as the nations number one Best Bang-For-The Buck City and ranked it number one on Americas Fastest-Recovering Cities list. Also, Omaha hosted the U. S. Olympic swim trials in 2008,2012 and 2016, the word Omaha means Dwellers on the bluff. In 1804 the Lewis and Clark Expedition passed by the riverbanks where the city of Omaha would be built, there was fierce competition among fur traders until John Jacob Astor created the monopoly of the American Fur Company. The Mormons built a town called Cutlers Park in the area in 1846, while it was temporary, the settlement provided the basis for further development in the future. Through 26 separate treaties with the United States federal government, Native American tribes in Nebraska gradually ceded the lands comprising the state. The treaty and cession involving the Omaha area occurred in 1854 when the Omaha Tribe ceded most of east-central Nebraska, Logan Fontenelle, an interpreter for the Omaha and signatory to the 1854 treaty, played an essential role in those proceedings. Before it was legal to claim land in Indian Country, William D. Brown was operating the Lone Tree Ferry to bring settlers from Council Bluffs, Brown is generally credited as having the first vision for a city where Omaha now sits. The passage of the Kansas–Nebraska Act in 1854 was presaged by the out of claims around the area to become Omaha by residents from neighboring Council Bluffs. On July 4,1854, the city was established at a picnic on Capital Hill
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Doane University
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Doane University is a private liberal arts college in Crete, Nebraska, United States, with additional campuses located in Lincoln, Grand Island and Omaha. Fourteen years later, and after unsuccessful attempts to establish Congregational schools across the state. On July 11,1872, Doane College preempted the old Crete Academy, on May 9,2016, the institution was renamed to Doane University. Doane is the first liberal arts and sciences college in Nebraska, the university has had 67 Fulbright Scholars since the program began in 1946. The enrollment consists of over 1,000 undergraduate students on the Crete campus, as well as 750 adult learners and 1,200 graduate students who attend the Lincoln, Omaha and Grand Island campuses. Doane offers more than 40 undergraduate majors, several pre-professional programs, Doane University athletic teams, nicknamed the Tigers, are part of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics, competing in the Great Plains Athletic Conference. Co-ed sports include cheerleading and shotgun sports, Doane has a rich athletic history. The first college coach at Doane was F. P. Reed, who led the team to a 1-1 record, other coaches in its football history include Al Papik, Tommie Frazier and current head coach Matt Franzen. Doanes football team has participated on three games and won two, tying in the third. The first was the 1950 Bean Bowl where they defeated Colorado State College by a score of 14–6, Doane then had back-to-back appearances in the Mineral Water Bowl in 1967 and 1968. They have qualified for the NAIA National Playoffs five times, most recently in 2015, henry Pratt Fairchild - sociologist and educator Bob Stitt - University of Montana Football Head Coach Zenon C. R. The designation was given to 161 Midwest schools, including six from Nebraska, Doane placed among the top 25 liberal arts colleges nationwide in the ‘least debt rankings released in the Sept.17,2007 issue of U. S. News & World Report. Kaplan/Newsweek College Catalog recently called it a hidden treasure, U. S. News & World Report has ranked Doane a Great School at a Great Price for five consecutive years as well as placed it among the top 25 of 572 Midwestern schools. In 2009, Forbes rated it 66th of Americas Best Colleges, Doane also received a distinction for Hurricane Relief Services for its hurricane relief efforts following the Gulf hurricanes of 2005. Doane University Historic Buildings, including Gaylord Hall, Boswell Observatory and it serves as a location for classes, graduation ceremonies, and on some occasions, weddings
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Denver Pioneers
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The Denver Pioneers are the sports teams of the University of Denver. Other DU teams play in various conferences in the sports that are not sponsored by The Summit, the mens ice hockey team is a charter member of the National Collegiate Hockey Conference, which formed in 2011 with play beginning in 2013. Mens and womens skiing compete in the Rocky Mountain Intercollegiate Ski Association, the University has been fielding athletic teams since 1867. DUs athletic teams are known as the Pioneers, Denver officially became the Pioneers in 1925, after the result of a student nickname contest, and that nickname has been in place ever since. With over 200 All Americans,31 NCAA Championships, and 65 Olympians in its history, Sports Illustrated ranked the DU program 23rd in the nation in 2008 among all schools. In 1979, under pressure, DU joined the NAIA where it played until 1992. Denver also appeared in the 2005 NIT, losing to San Francisco, ice hockey is DUs flagship spectator sport, regularly selling out the 6,026 seat Magness Arena on campus, the showpiece of the Ritchie Center for Sports and Wellness. DUs Hockey Program has been playing NCAA Division I hockey since 1949-50, the Pioneers are one of the most successful programs in the history of collegiate hockey. They are ranked third in all-time NCAA National Hockey Championships with seven after Michigan and North Dakota with nine and eight championships, the Pioneers have appeared in 14 NCAA Frozen Four Championships. Since the creation of the Western Collegiate Hockey Association in 1959, Patrick Weircioch of the Ottawa Senators, Chris Butler of the St. Louis Blues and 2006 Hobey Baker Memorial Award Winner Matt Carle of the Tampa Bay Lightning. Previous DU players who starred in the NHL besides Anderson include Keith Magnuson, Craig Patrick, Cliff Koroll, Peter McNab, and Kevin Dineen, legendary hockey coaches at Denver include three former NHL players - Murray Armstrong, Marshall Johnston and Ralph Backstrom. Jim Montgomery a former NHL player, USHL GM/coach and star player, is the new coach of Denver Hockey. DU hockey entered a new era in 2013 when it left its home of the WCHA to launch the National Collegiate Hockey Conference. The new conference was formed as a reaction to the Big Ten Conferences announcement that it would start a mens hockey league in 2013. The six charter members of the NCHC—DU, Colorado College, Miami, Minnesota–Duluth, North Dakota and these schools were soon joined by St. Cloud State and Western Michigan to bring the leagues membership at launch to eight. The University of Denver Ski Team has won 23 NCAA titles, the Pioneers have won nine championships since 2000. DU won NCAA titles in 2014 and 2016, three-peated NCAA titles in 2008,2009 and 2010, won an NCAA title in 2005 and as well as three consecutive NCAA titles from 2000 to 2002. The Denver mens lacrosse team appeared in the 2006,2008,2010,2011,2012,2013,2014,2015 and 2016 NCAA Tournaments, Denver won the NCAA mens lacrosse championship in 2015, beating Maryland, 10-5 in Philadelphia
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Denver
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Denver, officially the City and County of Denver, is the capital and most populous municipality of the U. S. state of Colorado. Denver is in the South Platte River Valley on the edge of the High Plains just east of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains. The Denver downtown district is immediately east of the confluence of Cherry Creek with the South Platte River, Denver is nicknamed the Mile-High City because its official elevation is exactly one mile above sea level, making it the highest major city in the United States. The 105th meridian west of Greenwich, the reference for the Mountain Time Zone. Denver is ranked as a Beta- world city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network. With a 2015 estimated population of 682,545, Denver ranks as the 19th-most populous U. S. city, and with a 2. 8% increase in 2015, the city is also the fastest-growing major city in the United States. The 10-county Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area had an estimated 2015 population of 2,814,330 and ranked as the 19th most populous U. S. metropolitan statistical area. The 12-city Denver-Aurora, CO Combined Statistical Area had an estimated 2015 population of 3,418,876, which ranks as the 16th most populous U. S. metropolitan area. Denver is the most populous city of the 18-county Front Range Urban Corridor, Denver is the most populous city within a 500-mile radius and the second-most populous city in the Mountain West after Phoenix, Arizona. In 2016, Denver was named the best place to live in the USA by U. S. News & World Report and this was the first historical settlement in what was later to become the city of Denver. The site faded quickly, however, and by the summer of 1859 it was abandoned in favor of Auraria, Larimer named the townsite Denver City to curry favor with Kansas Territorial Governor James W. Denver. Larimer hoped the name would help make it the county seat of Arapaho County but, unbeknownst to him. The location was accessible to existing trails and was across the South Platte River from the site of seasonal encampments of the Cheyenne, the site of these first towns is now the site of Confluence Park near downtown Denver. Larimer, along with associates in the St. Charles City Land Company, sold parcels in the town to merchants and miners, Denver City was a frontier town, with an economy based on servicing local miners with gambling, saloons, livestock and goods trading. In the early years, land parcels were often traded for grubstakes or gambled away by miners in Auraria, in May 1859, Denver City residents donated 53 lots to the Leavenworth & Pikes Peak Express in order to secure the regions first overland wagon route. Offering daily service for passengers, mail, freight, and gold, in 1863, Western Union furthered Denvers dominance of the region by choosing the city for its regional terminus. The Colorado Territory was created on February 28,1861, Arapahoe County was formed on November 1,1861, Denver City served as the Arapahoe County Seat from 1861 until consolidation in 1902. In 1867, Denver City became the territorial capital, with its newfound importance, Denver City shortened its name to Denver
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Haskell Indian Nations University
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Haskell Indian Nations University is a federally operated tribal university located in Lawrence, Kansas, for members of federally recognized Native American tribes in the United States. Enrollment at the campus is nearly 1,000 students per semester, representing approximately 140 Tribal nations, Haskell is funded directly by the Bureau of Indian Education as a U. S. Trust Responsibility to American Indian Tribes, it does not charge tuition. Students are responsible for paying semester fees, twelve campus buildings have been designated as U. S. National Historic Landmarks. Faculty and students built the Haskell Medicine Wheel Earthwork in 1992, the renowned Rinehart Collection is housed in the Haskell Cultural Center. Numerous sculptures and murals are located throughout the campus, the university hosts cultural and academic events that attract visitors from across the country and abroad. Such events include the annual Haskell Indian Art Market, the Stories-n-Motion Film Festival, and these public events are held along with numerous educational conferences, workshops, and presentations. The history of Haskell Indian Nations University reflects both U. S. Indian policy and self-determination efforts by American Indian and Alaska Native communities, Haskell was founded during an era when the federal government believed that Native Americans needed to assimilate to majority culture to survive. Children were sent away from their families to Native American boarding schools and they were cut off from their families and their own cultures. Under harsh standards of the period, children were physically abused. Haskell has since developed into a Tribal-based university whose curriculum serves general Native American, since the late 1960s, some tribes have developed their own tribal colleges, located on their reservations and serving a specific tribal or regional population. Haskells alumni work in areas to serve Indian Country and Alaska Native communities. 1884, Founded as the United States Indian Industrial Training School, the school opened for 22 students, girls studied cooking, sewing and homemaking. Most of the food was produced on the Haskell farm. 1887, Name changed to Haskell Institute to honor Dudley Haskell, representative responsible for the school being in Lawrence. Under a semi-military system, students wore uniforms, marched to classes, 1889-90, Charles T. Meserve was appointed the fifth superintendent in Haskells five-year history. A Special Indian Agent, appointed to investigate, whitewashed the whole situation,1894,606 students from 36 states. 1927, High school classes were accredited by the state of Kansas,1965, Haskell graduated its last high school class. 1970, Haskell developed a college curriculum and associates degree program
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Lawrence, Kansas
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Lawrence is the sixth largest city in the state of Kansas and the county seat of Douglas County, Kansas. It is in northeastern Kansas next to Interstate 70, along the banks of the Kansas, as of the 2010 census, the citys population was 87,643. Lawrence is a town and the home to the University of Kansas. Lawrence was founded by the New England Emigrant Aid Company and was named for Amos Adams Lawrence who offered financial aid, Lawrence was central to the Bleeding Kansas era and was the site of the Wakarusa War, the sacking of Lawrence, and the Lawrence Massacre. Lawrence began as a center of Kansas politics, prior to Kansas Territory being opened to settlement in May 1854, most of Douglas County was part of the Shawnee Indian Reservation. The Oregon Trail followed the Kansas River through what would become Lawrence and Mount Oread was used as a landmark, dr. Charles Robinson and Charles Branscomb were sent by the New England Emigrant Aid Company to scout for a location for a city. They arrived in the vicinity of Lawrence in July 1854 and noted the beauty of the area, the original “pioneer party” left Massachusetts on July 17,1854 and consisted of 29 men. They arrived at the site Robinson and Branscomb selected on August 1, the second party arrived in Lawrence on September 9 after leaving near the end of August. The town was officially named Lawrence City on October 6, the main street of the town was named Massachusetts to commemorate the origins of the pioneer party. The first post office in Lawrence was established in January 1855, in March 1857, the Quincy School was started in the Emigrant Aid office before moving to the basement of the Unitarian Church in April. The Plymouth Congregational Church was started in September 1854 by Reverend S. Y, lum, a missionary sent to Kansas. Shortly after Lawrence’s founding, two newspapers were started, The Kansas Pioneer and the Herald of Freedom, both touted the Free State mission which caused problems from the people of Lecompton, then the pro-slavery headquarters, about ten miles northwest of Lawrence, and land squatters from Missouri. The Kansas Free State began in early January 1855, on November 21,1855, Charles Dow was shot and killed by Franklin Coleman in Hickory Point about fourteen miles south of Lawrence. Shortly after, an army of Missourians led by Douglas County Sheriff Samuel L. Jones entered Kansas to attack Lawrence. John Brown and James Lane had hustled Lawrence citizens into an army and erected barricades, a treaty was signed and the Missouri army reluctantly left. Harassment by Sheriff Jones and other Southern sympathizers continued unabated, the Herald of Freedom, the Kansas Free State and the Free State Hotel were indicted as “nuisances. ”On April 23,1856 Sheriff Jones was shot while trying to arrest free-state settlers. On May 21, Sheriff Jones and a posse of 800 Southern sympathizers converged on Lawrence, dr. Robinson’s house on Mount Oread was taken by the federal marshal as headquarters and the newspaper printing presses were damaged and thrown in the river. The Free State Hotel was also destroyed, despite the constant presence of impending war, Lawrence continued to grow
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Harry W. Ewing
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Harry Walter Buck Ewing was an American football player, coach of football, basketball and baseball, and college athletics administrator. He was a 1909 graduate of University of Nebraska where he played football and he was also the head basketball coach at South Dakota State, Ohio Wesleyan, Miami, and Otterbein, tallying a career college basketball mark of 117–111–1. A native of Lincoln, Nebraska, Ewing attended Lincoln High School where he graduated in 1906 and he was an all around athlete participating in football, basketball, track, and baseball. In football he played tackle and fullback. His football team claimed the school championship of the United States in 1905. In track he broke three Lincoln High School records for discus and 12 lb shot put and the 12 lb hammer throw. After playing tackle on the team, Ewing lettered in football at the University of Nebraska under coach William C. King Cole in 1907,1908. Weighing 188-pounds, he played guard and was known as a people mover on the field. Ewing helped the 1907 Nebraska Cornhuskers to an 8–2 record and a share of the Missouri Valley Conference title, in 1908, the Cornhuskers finished with 7–2–1 with Ewing starting every game at left guard. In his last season as a Cornhusker the teams record slipped to a 3–3–2 mark, after finishing his playing days at Nebraska, Ewing joined the Cornhuskers coaching staff. In 1911, he was named Director of Athletics and coach at Morningside College in Sioux City, the following year, he took a coaching position in both football and basketball at South Dakota State College. In 1914, he added the title of athletic director, Ewing served as football coach at South Dakota from 1912 through 1917 with a record of 26–12–2. He also served as coach for the 1912–13 season where his team went 0–2. The next season the college did not field a team but Ewing returned to coach the team for the 1914–15, 1915–16. He finished his career as South Dakota States basketball coach with a record of 14–20–1, in 1918 Ewing was named head coach of Ohio Wesleyan University where he eventually was promoted to Associate Professor of Physical Education and Graduate Manager. In his three years as coach at Ohio Wesleyan he had a combined record of 11–9. He also served as coach for the 1919–20 season where his team went 5–8. In 1922, he took a position as Professor of Physical Education, while at Miami he served as head coach of both the football and basketball teams
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A. J. Sturzenegger
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Alfonzo John A. J. Sturzenegger, sometimes also referred to as Jack Sturzenegger, was an American football and baseball player and coach. He played college football and baseball at the University of Nebraska and he later served as an assistant football coach at the University of Michigan, University of Southern California, and UCLA. He was also the coach of the UCLA Bruins baseball team from 1927 to 1931, in 1933. He was born in South Bend, Nebraska, in 1888 and attended school in Lincoln. He attended the University of Nebraska and played halfback and fullback for the 1908 and 1909 Nebraska Cornhuskers football teams, after graduating from Nebraska, Sturzenegger enrolled at Harvard Law School. He left Harvard to accept a job at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy. During World War I, he served aboard the USS Neptune as an ensign in the United States Navy, after being discharged from the Navy in 1919, Sturzenegger returned to South Bend to manage his fathers store. In January 1920, he was hired as an assistant football coach under Fielding H. Yost at the University of Michigan and he was an assistant coach at Michigan from 1920 to 1923. While at Michigan, Sturzenegger served as a scout and as assistant coach responsible for the halfbacks, in October 1921, a University of Michigan publication wrote that Sturzneggers flat helmet has been a familiar sight on Ferry Field for several seasons. Sturz hails from Nebraska and has an ability in imparting the fundamentals and tricks of the game to linemen. In April 1924, Sturzenegger was hired by USC as an assistant football coach and he was a resident of Los Angeles at the time of his hiring. He had charge of the ends and backs and was a success at teaching the manly art of blocking to the ends. In September 1925, Sturzenegger was hired by UCLA as an assistant football coach under new head coach William H. Spaulding, at the time, Los Angeles Times columnist Bill Henry wrote that Spaulding had made a fine move in hiring Sturzy. Henry continued, The gentleman with the name has one of the finest of reputations in the Middle West as a developer of ends and backs. He has a position, which he has held for a long time, with the trust department of a big local bank. He goes to every game within reach and returns with every play of both teams accurately diagrammed, when he coaches he doesnt tell em he shows em. He puts on a uniform and gets out and rough-houses with the boys until theyre glad to quit, Sturzenegger continued to serve as an assistant football coach at UCLA for more than 20 years. In February 1927, Sturzenegger was also assigned the position as UCLAs head baseball coach and he had played baseball at Nebraska and coached it at Rennselaer Polytechnic
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Marietta College
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Marietta College is a co-educational liberal arts private college in Marietta, Ohio, USA, which was the first permanent settlement of the Northwest Territory. The school offers 45 majors along with a number of minors, the school encompasses approximately three city blocks next to downtown Marietta and enrolls 1,200 full-time students. It is known for its Petroleum Engineering, Athletic Training, McDonough Leadership, historically preceded by the communitys Muskingum Academy, established in 1797, todays College was chartered in 1835 and the first president was the Rev. Joel H. Linsley. In the years before the Civil War, its students absorbed the citys ethic of supporting abolitionism and they helped fugitive slaves take shelter at the college, which was used as a station on the Underground Railroad to help slaves reach freedom in northern states or Canada. Marietta College worked toward high academic achievement, in 1860, it became the sixteenth college awarded a chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, the worlds oldest honorary society. During the Great War, before the United States entered the war, after the war, France commemorated their service with what is known as the French monument, which it gave to the city of Marietta. The monument has two parts, a replica of a historic 1749 plaque found buried at site, which noted the French claim to the Ohio Country. The names of the men who served with the corps are included. The athletic department sponsors 20 varsity sports, competing in NCAA Division III, in 2012, the college’s baseball team won an NCAA Division III record 6th College World Series Championship in school history. The college also sponsors intramural and recreation programs, which are housed in the Dyson Baudo Recreation Center, at the center of a Marietta College education are Seven Core Values that form the foundation for all the College does. It has three components, First Year Program In the students first year, he or she will enroll in the First Year Seminar and the College Life and Leadership Laboratory. Together, these courses are designed to help the student make the intellectual and social transition from high school, in addition, all students are required to complete Writing 110, an introductory writing course, and Communication 101, a public speaking course. General education General education provides opportunities to many fields in breadth. Majors Marietta has 45 majors and many more minors, the school offers two graduate programs in Psychology and Physician Assistant Studies. As well, the school offers programs, such as Investigative Studies, Leadership Studies, Study Abroad. Students choose their own majors, and work toward satisfying the requirements of their program. All majors have a capstone or culminating course, the college also has guidelines for the creation of student-developed majors. The honors program provides a course of study for accomplished students, the program has several requirements such as GPA and including specific Honors courses that meet General Education requirements
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Memorial Stadium (Lincoln)
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Memorial Stadium is located on the campus of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln in Lincoln, Nebraska, United States. It is the home of the Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, at the conclusion of the 2016 season, the stadium holds an ongoing NCAA record of 354 consecutive sellouts, which began in 1962. When full, Memorial Stadium holds more people than any Nebraska city except Omaha, because most fans wear red apparel, the stadium is referred to as the Sea of Red on game days. In the fall of 1922, a drive for $430,000 in funds to build a new stadium was undertaken by faculty, students, alumni. Later, the stadium would also honor the 3,839 Nebraskans who died in World War II, the 225 in Korea, construction was completed in just over 90 working days, Memorial Stadium was dedicated on October 20,1923. Southwest, Not the victory but the action, Not the goal but the game, northwest, Courage, Generosity, Fairness, Honor, In these are the true awards of manly sport. Northeast, Their Lives they held their countrys trust, They kept its faith, a statue of Nebraska former coach Tom Osborne and former Nebraska quarterback Brook Berringer can be found outside the north side of the stadium. Prior to the move to Memorial, finals for each class were contested at local sites. Memorial Stadium has undergone several phases of expansion and renovation since its original construction, in its original configuration, the stadium consisted of stands on the east and west sidelines. It was modeled after Ohio States Ohio Stadium and had a capacity of around 31,000. A series of four additions between 1964 and 1972 enclosed the stadium by adding seats above the north and south end zones, more than doubling Memorial Stadiums seating capacity to nearly 74,000. A major renovation in 1999 added 42 luxury boxes above the west stands, the stadium was rededicated, reflecting Nebraskas rise to national prominence during his 34 years as an assistant coach and head coach, the stadium almost doubled in size during his tenure. In 2004, construction began to renovate and expand the north end zone stands, Memorial Stadium now features an additional 13 luxury boxes above the north stands called the Skyline Suites and an additional 6,000 seats, increasing seating capacity to 81,067. Nebraska has the twentieth-largest video screen in college football, at 33 feet tall, concurrently, ribbon boards stretching the length of the field were installed along the east and west balconies of the stadium. This expansion was built on the stadiums east side, and includes 3,300 general admission seats,2,119 new club seats and 38 additional skybox suites. The expansion totals more than 6,000 new seats and brings the number of private suites inside the stadium to 101. The original east facade of the stadium, plus Gate 20, was preserved within a new entrance lobby, the creation of the first standing room only area in Memorial Stadium was also built, an area available for companies and private parties to host events on a game-to-game basis. In addition, the university created a 20, 000-square-foot cutting-edge athletics research facility in addition to another 20,000 square feet dedicated to campus research, the expansion project was completed and dedicated on August 22,2013
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Herbie Husker
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Herbie Husker is the oldest current mascot of the University of Nebraska-Lincolns sports teams. Herbie was created by Lubbock, Texas, artist Dirk West and first appeared on the cover of the Huskers media guide in 1974, soon after, he became the universitys official mascot. Herbie has gone through a few makeovers, the most recent coming before the 2003 college football season, until 2003, he was dressed in denim overalls, a red cowboy hat emblazoned with a large N, and had an ear of corn in his pocket. After the 2003 makeover, he now dons a red hat, red workshirt, blue jeans. This was done to update the appearance of the states agricultural workers. During halftime of the 2006 Capital One Bowl, Herbie was named National Mascot of the year for 2005, in January 2005, Herbie starred in his own childrens book, Hello, Herbie Husker
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Lil' Red
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Lil Red is one of two mascots representing University of Nebraska–Lincolns athletic teams. Lil Red is the newest mascot, having been created for the 1993 season after a statewide contest run for that purpose, associate athletic director Dr. Barbara Hibner was the driving force behind Lil Red. The mascot is currently produced by Signs & Shapes International, Inc. based in Omaha, due to the mascots incredibly light weight, the larger-than-life mascot can run, dance, crowd surf and shake hands. The costume was designed to appeal to children and has become a piece of Nebraska athletics culture. Lil Red was designed in a state–wide contest that was organized by Dr. Barbara Hibner to find a design that could mainly represent the schools volleyball team. Since Lil Reds introduction, he has come to represent other sporting events alongside Herbie Husker, such as football
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University of Nebraska Cornhusker Marching Band
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The University of Nebraska Cornhusker Marching Band is the marching band of the University of Nebraska. It performs at all football games. Founded in 1879, the Marching Red is one of the oldest, the band consists of 300 students from over 60 different academic majors from across the campus. Thanks to the success of the Husker football program, the Marching Red is also one of the most traveled bands in the country having participated in all of the bowl games. On November 19,2011, the Cornhusker Marching Band performed at Michigan Stadium in front of the largest audience ever to watch the band, the Cornhusker Band has also made several international tours, visiting continental Europe and Ireland. The Cornhusker Marching Band has been the recipient of many honors over the years, the Sudler Trophy is presented biannually to a college marching band program that has demonstrated particular excellence over a period of years. A ballot of all NCAA marching band directors selects the trophy recipient, the Marching Red has been seen by millions of viewers on television, and appeared on the Kennedy Center stage as part of the Kennedy Center Honors ceremony. In 2005 the band was featured on the NBC prime time series Tommy Lee Goes to College and in 2007 on ABCs Extreme Makeover, Home Edition. On October 13,2007, a crew from the comedy film, Yes Man. To become a member, each person must pass an audition in the Spring or attend a mini-camp as is the case sometimes for percussion. After first cuts, a marching and music memorization audition follows in the Fall semester. On football game days at home, the band rehearses for two hours in Memorial Stadium beginning five-and-a-half hours before kickoff, an hour-and-a-half before kickoff, the band meets in full uniform at Westbrook Music Building for warm-up and final instructions. Following is an outdoor concert at Kimball Recital Hall and the traditional march to the stadium. It is customary before the playing of Hail Varsity. to sing Band Song, throughout the history of the Marching Red, the Band has performed many fight songs at football games, most of which can be heard during the pregame performance. The band maintains the tradition of playing the teams fight song during its pregame performance. The Cornhusker Marching Bands Pregame Spectacular begins with a drum cadence, when the drum cadence changes pace, the band runs onto the field as the announcer exclaims Now is the time for the Marching Red Experience – Presenting the University of Nebraska Cornhusker. As the band plays fanfares to the crowd, the announcer proclaims This is the Pride of All Nebraska, before introducing the drum majors and twirlers. Its Football Saturday in Memorial Stadium, and there is NO PLACE LIKE NEBRASKA, the Cornhusker Marching Bands Pregame Performance contains, Dear Old Nebraska U The visiting teams fight song The Star Spangled Banner Mr
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Blackshirts (American football)
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The Blackshirts are the first-string defensive unit players for the Nebraska Cornhuskers football team. The term originally dates back to the early 1960s and refers to the practice jerseys that Nebraskas first-string defenders began to wear during practice. Assistant Coach Mike Corgan was tasked with obtaining the new jersey pullovers, the sporting goods store he visited reportedly gave him a good deal on black, because the color had apparently not been selling well. The new jerseys were then assigned to be worn by the Nebraska defensive players during practice, quickly identifying starting defensive players by the black jerseys they wore on the field made coaching them much more efficient. The unmarked black jerseys were collected each day for laundering and then redistributed during the next practice, after a time, the black jerseys were only given to the defensive players who practiced and performed well. There probably wasnt a day when we didnt make switches, said George Kelly, long-time sports information director Don Bryant credits much of Blackshirt mystique to Coach Kelly, who was often heard yelling and exhorting the Blackshirts during practices and scrimmages. The choice of black to bring about the name Blackshirts was not intentional, said Coach Kelly in later years, Honestly, it was an accident of availability. Blackshirts are awarded to defensive starters and other key defensive players, besides the black practice jerseys, which today have the players name and number imprinted on them, the Blackshirts also have a black circle on the back of their helmet. These players will often cross their arms in an X across their chests, representing the skull and crossbones and this is called Throwing the Bones. The defensive players not awarded a Blackshirt wear red practice jerseys, the student section at Memorial Stadium, Lincoln is named the Boneyard after the Blackshirts. The Blackshirts logo and throwing the bones motion is often displayed there, on October 16,2007, the defensive players and coaches made a joint decision to remove the Blackshirts. The first player to remove his Blackshirt was Senior captain Zackary Bowman, on November 11,2008, the Blackshirts were given back to the eleven defensive starters by new Head Coach Bo Pelinis staff, three days after a win against a strong Kansas Jayhawks football team. The win also made the 2008 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team bowl-eligible
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Cy Sherman
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Charles Sumner Cy Sherman was an American journalist and is known as the father of the Cornhuskers after giving the Nebraska Cornhuskers football team the name Cornhuskers in 1899. At his suggestion in 1936, Associated Press sports editor Alan J. Gould created the first AP Poll for ranking college football teams, at his death he was called by the Star the Dean of American Sportswriters. Charles Sumner Sherman was born in Villisca, Iowa on March 10,1871 to Charles Wheelan Sherman and his father was a civil war veteran and newspaper publisher and editor. He was born in Richland County, Ohio on June 6,1841 and his mother was born in Marion County, Iowa on August 26,1842, and died in Plattsmouth, Nebraska on May 31,1900. Sherman first attended schools in Glenwood, Iowa, before his family moved to Plattsmouth, in Plattsmouth, his father was the publisher of the Plattsmouth Tribune, and Sherman spent time in its shop in where he learned printing. Sherman married Nancy Ada Moore in Davenport, Iowa on August 16,1893, Nancy was born in Davenport on October 31,1870. During the 1890 through 1899 seasons, the Huskers had been called multiple names including Treeplanters, Rattlesnake Boys, Antelopes, Old Gold Knights, the school was changing its school colors to scarlet and cream in 1892 and the Old Gold Knights no longer made sense. Sherman thought the name Bugeaters was unglamorous and was tired of referring to the Nebraska teams with that name, Sherman was writing for the Nebraska State Journal starting in about 1898, and in 1899 was the first to use the name Cornhuskers to refer to Nebraska. He did so frequently in his columns and University journalism professor Alvin Watkins Jr. made a push for its adoption on campus and it was a successful effort and Cornhuskers would become the only used name for the team starting in 1900. The student yearbook changed its name to the “Cornhusker” in 1907, when the Nebraska legislature passed a bill naming Nebraska the Cornhusker State in 1946, Sherman received the pen used to sign the bill. In August 1913, Sherman moved to Red Lodge, Montana where he became editor and part owner of the Red Lodge Picket, Sherman played a role in advocating Stechers career, which increased the wrestlers prominence. Later in the year, Sherman was credited with discovering Earl Caddock from Anita, Sherman refereed a match between Caddock and Stecher in April 1917 in Omaha. Caddock won the match, and Shermans work was controversial when he disallowed a fall when Caddock had nearly pinned Stecher but had his feet off the mat. Later that year Sherman organized athletic shows in Lincoln to raise money to support Linolns Western Baseball League team, at one show Fred Fulton boxed, while Caddock wrestled at the other. Boxers Mike and Tommy Gibbons were also part of the affair, in 1935, AP sports editor Alan J. Gould declared a three way tie for national champion in football between Minnesota, Princeton, and Southern Methodist. Minnesota fans protested, and a number of Goulds colleagues led by Sherman suggested he create a poll of sports editors instead of using his own list. As an writer, Shemans column in the Star was for a time called Brass Tacks and he was known as an advocate for sportsmanship and opposed commercialization and excess recruiting in the college game. As early as the 1910s, Sherman was involved in minor baseball in Lincoln
