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LSU Tigers football
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The LSU Tigers football program, also known as the Fighting Tigers, represents Louisiana State University in the sport of American football. The Tigers compete in the Football Bowl Subdivision of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, LSU ended the 2015 season with 770 victories, the 12th most in NCAA Division I FBS history, and the 4th most of any SEC team, behind Alabama, Tennessee, and Georgia. The Tigers also have the 11th highest winning percentage among teams with at least 1,000 games played, LSU has won three National Championships in 1958,2003 and 2007. LSU has been featured in a game with ESPN College GameDay on location a total of 25 times, the Tigers have now made at least one appearance on the show every season since 2003. In recent years, LSU has had a number of players drafted into the National Football League. As of the beginning of the 2016 NFL season, there were 42 former LSU players on active rosters in the NFL, Louisiana State University played its first football game in school history on November 25,1893, losing to rival Tulane in the first intercollegiate contest in Louisiana. The game sparked a rivalry between the Tigers and the Green Wave that has lasted generations, the Tigers were coached by university professor Dr. Charles E. Coates, known for his work in the chemistry of sugar. Future Louisiana governor Ruffin G. Pleasant was the quarterback and captain of the LSU team, in the first game against Tulane, LSU football players wore purple and gold ribbons on their uniforms. According to legend, purple and gold were chosen because they were Mardi Gras colors, the rules of play in 1893 were more like rugby than what might be considered modern football. LSU achieved its first victory by beating Natchez Athletic Club 26–0 in 1894, samuel Marmaduke Dinwidie Clark has the honor of scoring the very first touchdown in LSU history. The first football game played on the LSU campus was at State Field on December 3,1894, LSUs only touchdown in that game was scored by the head coach, Albert Simmons. This was the first year of play for William S. Slaughter who lettered as an end for 5 years, Slaughter was LSUs first five time football letterman. By 1895, LSU had its first win in Baton Rouge, Coach Allen Jeardeau returned for his second but final year at LSU in 1897 for two games in Baton Rouge. A yellow fever outbreak throughout the South caused the postponement of LSUs classes starting, another outbreak of yellow fever similar to the one in 1897 caused LSU to play only one game in 1898. By the time LSU was able to play its game of the season, Allen Jeardeau had departed from the school as head football coach. The job of coach then fell to the captain, Edmond Chavanne. New coach John P. Gregg led the Tigers to a 1–4 season in 1899, the only wins were in an exhibition game against a high school team—which LSU does not officially record as a win—and against rival, Tulane. Chavanne was rehired in 1900, posting a 2–2 record and he was replaced by W. S. Borland as head coach in 1901, who led the team to a successful 5–1 season
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Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association
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The Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association was one of the first collegiate athletic conferences in the United States. Twenty-seven of the current Division I FBS football programs were members of this conference at some point, the SIAA was founded on December 21,1894, by Dr. William Dudley, a chemistry professor at Vanderbilt, at the Kimball House in Atlanta. Dudley was a member of the Vanderbilt Athletic Association, formed in 1886 with Dr. W. M. Baskerville as president, most students at Vanderbilt were members. The early sports played on the Vanderbilt campus were baseball, bicycling, Dudley was primarily responsible for the formation of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association. Sewanees opposition stopped it from occurring, the original members were Alabama, Auburn, Georgia, Johns Hopkins, North Carolina, Sewanee, Vanderbilt, and Virginia. Virginia and North Carolina soon dropped before the inaugural 1895 season, the conference was originally formed for the development and purification of college athletics throughout the South. In 1903, a single-game football playoff occurred, but it seems to have been coordinated more so by the two competing schools than the conference itself, several other efforts over the years by individual schools to hold a conference title game fell through. Most SIAA titles claimed by schools in sports were actually more mythical in nature than officially sanctioned by the league. In 1915, a disagreement arose within the conference regarding the eligibility of freshman athletes, generally, the larger universities opposed the eligibility of freshman players, while the smaller schools favored it. As a result, some of the universities formed the Southern Intercollegiate Conference. At the conferences annual meeting on December 10,1920, the SIAA rejected proposals to ban freshman athletes, in protest, some schools that had voted in favor of the propositions immediately announced they would seek to form a new conference. In 1922, the Southern Conference underwent an expansion and added six more members, all at the expense of the SIAA, Florida, Louisiana State, Mississippi, South Carolina, Tulane, and Vanderbilt. With the departure of most of the colleges, the SIAA became a de facto small college conference in 1923. In the 1920s and 1930s, the SIAA increased its membership with the addition of additional small universities. The conference eventually disbanded in 1942 with the onset of American involvement in World War II, original charter members are denoted in boldface. Invited charter members are denoted with an asterisk, in the era in which the SIAA operated, teams tended to join in December, therefore, the first year of conference play in a given sport was often the following calendar year. Conference affiliations reflect those for the 2016–17 school year
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State Field
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State Field was the home stadium of the Louisiana State University Tigers football team from 1893 to 1924. The field was built on the old campus of LSU. It was located south of the Pentagon Barracks and slightly southwest of the site of the current Louisiana State Capitol Building adjacent to the Hill Memorial Library and George Peabody Hall. The field was known on the campus simply as the field was later moved to a site with bleachers that was north of the campuses experimental garden. The field was used for LSUs baseball and basketball teams. LSUs first home game was played at State Field on December 3,1894 against the University of Mississippi, the contest resulted in a 26-6 loss to Ole Miss. LSUs last home game at State Field was on November 15,1924 against Northwestern State, LSU won this game by a score of 40-0. LSU moved to the newly opened Tiger Stadium the next week in a game against Tulane on November 27,1924, during the 31 years that State Field was used as LSUs home field,100 home games were played there. LSUs record at State Field was 81-18-1, on May 13,1893, LSU played its first baseball game versus Tulane University. The game resulted in a victory for LSU, from 1893–1924 LSU baseball played 388 games at State Field with LSU having a 192-184-12 record. The LSU basketball team played at State Field
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1915 Vanderbilt Commodores football team
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The 1915 Vanderbilt Commodores football team represented Vanderbilt University during the 1915 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. Dan McGugin served his 12th season as the Commodores head coach, Vanderbilt was a member of the SIAA. Several notable players featured on the team, McGugin built his 1915 squad around a 130-pound junior quarterback Irby Rabbit Curry. In the line was sophomore tackle Josh Cody, a tackler and dominating blocker. Cody was selected third-team All-America by Walter Camp, the teams captain was end Russ Cohen. The outlook for the upcoming 1915 Vanderbilt football season was not promising, the Commodores were coming off a losing record of 2–8, the first under head coach Dan McGugin, and the second in the schools 25 years of playing football. Additionally, only 10 experienced players from the year were returning to the team. Despite the one-platoon system with players featuring on offense, defense, and special teams used in 1915, coach McGugin was assisted by doctor and former Vanderbilt athlete Owsley Manier. Using conventional football, Vanderbilt opened the season with a win over Middle Tennessee Normal 51–0. Coach McGugin sent in his substitutes at the beginning of the fourth quarter, the starting lineup was Richardson, Cody, Reyer, Williams, Putnam, Lipscomb, Cohen, Curry, Zerfoss, Wiggs, and King. In the second week of play, Vanderbilt defeated Southwestern 47–0 on a slippery field, all points were scored in the first half. Vanderbilt beat the Georgetown Tigers 75–0, the Commodores racked up 11 touchdowns and 8 field goals, its largest score in three years. Dough Ray scored four times and Hubert Wiggs three times, the starting lineup was Williams, Cody, Hamilton, Reyer, Lipscomb, Putnam, Hayes, Curry, Friel, Zerfoss, and Wiggs. With four players out due to injury, the Commodores still managed to defeat the Cumberland Bulldogs 60–0 in a drizzling rain, Alf Adams stood out on defense. The starting lineup was Chester, Cody, Williams, Reyer, Hamilton, Lipscomb, Richardson, Roach, Floyd, Ray, the Rabbit Curry ran for a 40-yard touchdown with the game barely a minute old, and later had a 40-yard punt return for a touchdown. Sarah Turner had an 80-yard run, and a 60-yard end run for a score in the third quarter, tommy Ridley ran 60 yards on a fake punt. Catching Henderson-Brown exhausted, John Jarrett returned a kickoff 85 yards for a touchdown in the fourth quarter, Chester, Cody, Hamilton, Reyer, Williams, Lipscomb, Cohen, Curry, Floyd, Ray, and Wiggs. Against Mississippi, the team traveled by train from Nashville to Memphis, Tennessee, the train was halted near Dickson by a wreck ahead of it, and the players complained about the lack of food on the train
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1915 Auburn Tigers football team
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The 1915 Auburn Tigers football team represented Auburn University in the 1915 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. It was the Tigers 24th season and they competed as a member of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association, the team was led by head coach Mike Donahue, in his 11th year, and played their home games at Drake Field in Auburn, Alabama. They finished with a record of six wins and two losses, Baby Taylor was the only regular left at the start of the 1915 season. Source,1915 Auburn football schedule The season starts with a big 78–0 victory over Marion Military Institute, florida played hard for three quarters, until Wren scored the winning touchdown in the final period. The starting lineup was Robinson, Sample, Taylor, Campbell, Fricks, Wynne, Bonner, Caughman, Steed, Prendergast, the Georgia Bulldogs fell to Auburn 12–0. Auburn beat Mercer 45–0, the sixth straight shutout. Vanderbilt coach Dan McGugin had been pointing to since before the season, Auburn had dominated Southern football for the past two seasons, without a single team crossing its line. Vanderbilt jumped out to a 17–0 lead on a rain-soaked field, a Curry pass to captain Russell Cohen opened the scoring. Cody personally took over from that point, in one of the greatest exhibitions of punt covering Cody smothered the receiver every time, recovering two fumbles, one across the goal line for a touchdown. Then, in the last ten seconds of play, Cody dropped kicked a three-pointer from the 33-yard line, currys generalship was superb, and late in the game the Vandy line rose as one to throw back three Auburn charges on the five-yard line. The starting lineup, Taylor, Sample, Ducote, Robinson, Frickey, Wynne, Bonner, Steed, Wren, Prendergast, Georgia Tech closed what was then the greatest season in its history with a 7–0 defeat of Auburn. To begin the quarter, Everett Strupper had two key plays, the last of which was the game-deciding touchdown. First he made 20 yards around with a pass from Morrison before being forced out of bounds, Strupper started around left end, then cut back into the center of the field, away from his blockers. He juked and eluded every man on the Auburn team, on the last move Strupper faked right and then dove left underneath the outstretched arms of Baby Taylor into the endzone. The starting lineup against Auburn, Taylor, Wynne, Campbell, Robinson, Frickey, Sample, Bonner, Caughman, Ducote, Prendergast, guard Baby Taylor was a unanimous All-Southern selection, and was selected third-team All-America by Walter Camp. Vanderbilt Football, Tales of Commodore Gridiron History
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1915 Florida Gators football team
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The 1915 Florida Gators football team represented the University of Florida during the 1915 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. The season was C. J. McCoys second as the coach of the Florida Gators football team. Last year, first-year head coach Charles J. McCoy had churned out a Florida team in the top half of the SIAA, McCoy this year was also the schools first basketball coach. The teams captain was tackle A. A, at the guards were Ham Dowling, future Georgia Tech transfer, and Everett Yon, future Gator athletic director. Leading the backfield was Rammy Ramsdell, the Gators first quarterback of note, assisting the team was Z. J. Stanley, last year the coach of the Maryville Scots. Primary source,2015 Florida Gators Football Media Guide, the season opened with a 7–0 loss to Auburn. Florida played hard for three quarters, until Wren scored the touchdown in the final period. The starting lineup was Henderson, Lotspiech, Callen, Farrin, Yon, Goldsby, Roble, Ramsdell, Thompson, Fuller, Florida lost to coach Harris Copes Sewanee Tigers 7–0, continuing the losing streak against the Tigers. The Sewanee game was then the largest crowd to see a game in Jacksonville, after scoring one touchdown Sewanee was content to allow Florida to exhaust herself in vain attempts to find the weak spot in the Purple defense. Sewanees Ellerbe scored the only touchdown. The starting lineup was Henderson, Lotspeich, Dowling, Farrior, Yon, Goldsby, Robles, Ramsdell, Sparkman, Thompson, the Gators lengthened their winning streak against Florida Southern with an easy 45–0 victory. The Gators lost their game against coach Alex Cunninghams Georgia Bulldogs 0–37 in Jacksonville. The Gators carried the ball to Georgias 15-yard line in the first period, Georgia put across two touchdowns in the second quarter, and had a strong second half. The starting lineup was Henderson, Lotspeich, Dowling, Farrior, Robles, Goldsby, Lovell, Ramsdell, Sparkman, Thompson, Florida beat The Citadel 6–0 in a game marked by frequent fumbling. Florida scored when, in the quarter, Sparkman rushed for an 8-yard touchdown. In a torrential rain, Florida met Tulane for the first time and upset the Olive and Blue 14–7, Rammy Ramsdell scored the game-winning touchdown. The Gators defeated the Mercer Baptists 34–7, Rammy Ramsdell had a then-school record of four touchdowns. Head coach, Charles J. McCoy Assistant coach, Z. J. Stanley Manager, T. J. Swanson McEwen, the Gators, A Story of Florida Football
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1915 Clemson Tigers football team
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The 1915 Clemson Tigers football team represented the Clemson Tigers of Clemson Agricultural College during the 1915 college football season. Under third year head coach Bob Williams, the posted a 2–4–2 record in the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association. The 1915 season saw the introduction of Riggs Field as Clemsons home stadium, Riggs would host the football team until Memorial Stadium was built in 1942
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Furman Paladins football
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The Furman Paladins football program is the intercollegiate American football team for the Furman University located in the state of South Carolina. The team competes in the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision and are members of the Southern Conference, the schools first football team was fielded in 1889. The team plays its games at the 16,000 seat Paladin Stadium. They are coached by Clay Hendrix, the Furman Paladins have won 13 Southern Conference Championships,1978,1980,1981,1982,1983,1985,1988,1989,1990,1999,2001,2004, and 2013. They were National Champions in 1988 and National Runner–Up in 1985 and 2001
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Howard Bulldogs football
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The team competes in the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision and are members of the Southern Conference. Samfords first football team was fielded in 1902, the team plays its home games at the 6,700 seat Seibert Stadium in Homewood, Alabama. The Bulldogs are coached by Chris Hatcher, bobby Bowden James Bradberry Cortland Finnegan Jimbo Fisher Jaquiski Tartt Fabian Truss Corey White Nick Williams Michael Pierce 2017 at Georgia Official website
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Wofford Terriers football
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The team competes in the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision and are members of the Southern Conference. Woffords first football team was fielded in 1889, the team plays its home games at the 13,000 seat Gibbs Stadium in Spartanburg, South Carolina. The Terriers are coached by Mike Ayers, who is entering his 28th season with the team in 2015, Wofford moved from Division 2 to join the Division 1-AA Southern Conference in the 96-97 season. Since then, Wofford has won 4 Southern Conference Championships, Wofford is typically one of the strongest teams in the Southern Conference every year. Woffords best finish since moving from Division 2 was a trip to the National Semi-finals at Delaware in 2003, brenton Bersin - wide receiver for the Carolina Panthers Wofford has gone to the FCS Playoffs a total of 6 times. In 2003, Wofford appeared in the FCS Playoffs for the first time in school history, in the semi-finals, they lost to the would-be FCS Champions Delaware, and finished the season ranked #3 in the nation. The Terriers moved on to the quarterfinals in 2007 before losing to Richmond and they lost in the opening round to James Madison in 2008. In 2010, they advanced to the National Quarterfinals to face Southern Conference rival Georgia Southern and they were defeated in that game 20-23. Georgia Southern Fans taunted Wofford players, throwing bottles and trash at them. In 2011, they made it to the playoffs, losing to Northern Iowa 21-28 in the second round, in 2012, Wofford dominated visiting New Hampshire, to move on to the Quarterfinals to face would-be champions North Dakota St. Although they had chances to win, they fell 14-7. Woffords Football team has won 4 Southern Conference Championships, the first came in 2003, when Wofford finished 12-2, with a trip to face Delaware in the Division 1-AA Playoff Semifinals. The next championship came in 2007, sharing the championship with Appalachian State, Wofford would also win Conference titles in 2010 and 2012. The Terriers have appeared in the I-AA/FCS playoffs five times with an record of 6–5. The Terriers have appeared in the Division II playoffs two times with an record of 0–2
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Louisville Cardinals football
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The Louisville Cardinals Football team represents the University of Louisville in the sport of American football. The Cardinals compete in the Football Bowl Subdivision of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, the team is currently coached by Bobby Petrino. The University of Louisville began playing football in 1912 where the Cardinals went 3–1, Louisville had played several years at club level and teams were mostly composed with medical students. Beginning in 1914 the Cardinals joined the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association, due to financial difficulty Louisville did not participate in the 1917–1921 seasons. When the Cardinals did rejoin football they came back into the SIAA which was going through reorganization losing most major state schools, Tom King was the first coach to attempt to build a program at Louisville. King played college football at Notre Dame under Coach Palmer and Knute Rockne, King was an undersized end for the Irish and was known for his athleticism and speed. Before he came to the team for punt returns he was on the track team and basketball team. His experience at Notre Dame gave him ideas on developing a spread wing offense so his undersized players could be better utilized and he often recruited players like him, that had the ability to outrun their opponent. His first standout was Fred Koster, at only 160 pounds he was not big enough to play at Male High School, Koster drew national attention to Louisville in 1926 by racking up 68 points in his first 2 games of the season. In six games, Koster scored 18 touchdowns,10 extra points, Koster was an all-around athlete and was a letterman 16 times,4 times in each baseball, basketball, football, and track. Koster was a forward for the basketball team, leading the team in scoring two years. In baseball, Koster played professionally for 10 years for the Philadelphia Phillies as well as the league teams Louisville Colonels. Tom King had the program going in the direction until he decided to play Detroit for $10,000. Rockne who was coach at Notre Dame, and a fellow graduate called King. When King asked what was in it for Louisville Rockne replied $10,000, King served as head football coach for two more years but he also served as track, baseball, basketball and athletic director during his tenure at Louisville. Louisville athletics took a step back when Dr. Raymond Kent was announced as the new president of Louisville and he was outwardly opposed to collegiate sports. King on the advice of his friend Rockne moved on and in 1933 became assistant coach at Michigan State, Louisville fell quickly back into the Dark Ages of football and posted one winning season until World War II. With the onset of World War II, Louisville, like many college athletic programs around the country, was put on suspension until 1946, during that time Louisville played mostly within KIAC and posted a 73–118–8 record with a.378 winning percentage
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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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Jefferson College (Mississippi)
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Jefferson College, in Washington, Mississippi, was founded as an all-male college but operated primarily as a college preparatory school and later military boarding school during most of its history. Named in honor of Thomas Jefferson, the college was chartered in 1802, due to declining enrollment and financial difficulties, the facility closed in 1964. The historic campus was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970, the site is operated as an historic museum and park. Chartered on May 13,1802, by the General Assembly of the Mississippi Territory and it opened in 1811 with 15 students, as a preparatory school, under the name Washington Academy—a one-room, wood-frame structure, built on the college property. By 1817, the institution had become a fully developed college, the first permanent buildings, constructed of brick, were completed in 1820. By 1840, Jefferson College offered the degrees of Bachelor of Arts, during the American Civil War, Jefferson College was closed. After the end of the war, the buildings were used by the Freedmens Bureau to aid transition to a society of free labor, in November 1865, the schools Board of Trustees regained control of the facility. The institution reopened in 1866 as a school and continued as such until it closed in 1964. Between 1872 and 1911, under the tenure of Superintendent J. S, Raymond, the college had its longest interval of stable governance, with increased enrollment. By 1893, the institution had been reorganized as a military school, early in the 20th century, dormitories were built to accommodate more recruits. By the late 1930s, enrollment had increased to about 100 students, following World War II, declining student enrollment, low tuition, and lack of external funding caused financial hardship for Jefferson College. After 150 years of operation and unable to pay its debts, in 1965, all buildings and lands owned by Jefferson College were conveyed to the State of Mississippi in exchange for discharging the schools debts. In 1971, Jefferson College was placed under control of the Mississippi Department of Archives. Detailed plans were developed for preserving the buildings, and restoration work began in the mid-1970s. In 1977, Jefferson College was opened to the public as a State Historic Site and it is a 3-story, brick building constructed in Federal architectural style with a 5-bay facade. School rooms and the library were located on the first floor of the East Wing, student dormitory rooms were located on the second and third floors, as well as in the attic. The Presidents House is a two-story, wood-frame home that was constructed around 1830 for John Branch, the house was located on property adjacent to Jefferson College and was purchased by the college from Dr. Inge in 1842, for use as the college superintendents residence. In the mid-1970s, MDAH renovated the structure to serve as the residence for the Director of Historic Jefferson College, the West Wing was completed in 1839, with the same exterior design as the East Wing
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Baton Rouge, Louisiana
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Baton Rouge is the capital of the U. S. state of Louisiana and its second-largest city. It forms the seat of East Baton Rouge Parish and is located on the eastern bank of the Mississippi River. As the Capital City, Baton Rouge is the hub for Louisiana. The metropolitan area surrounding the city, known as Greater Baton Rouge, is also the second-largest in Louisiana, the urban area has around 594,309 inhabitants. Baton Rouge is an industrial, petrochemical, medical, research, motion picture. The Port of Greater Baton Rouge is the tenth largest in the United States in terms of tonnage shipped, the Baton Rouge area owes its historical importance to its strategic site upon the Istrouma Bluff, the first natural bluff upriver from the Mississippi River Delta. This allowed development of a business quarter safe from seasonal flooding, in addition, the city built a levee system stretching from the bluff southward to protect the riverfront and low-lying agricultural areas. The city is a rich center, with settlement by immigrants from numerous European nations. It was ruled by seven different governments, French, British, and Spanish in the era, West Floridian, United States territory and state, Confederate. Human habitation in the Baton Rouge area has been dated to 12000 –6500 BC based on evidence found along the Mississippi, Comite, earthwork mounds were built by hunter-gatherer societies in the Middle Archaic period, from roughly the 4th millennium BC. Eastern Muskogean began to diversify internally in the first half of the 1st millennium AD, at the time, the region appeared to be occupied by a collection of moderately-sized native chiefdoms interspersed with autonomous villages and tribal groups. French explorer Sieur dIberville led a party up the Mississippi River in 1699. The explorers saw a red pole marking the boundary between the Houma and Bayogoula tribal hunting grounds, see also Red Sticks for the ceremonial use of red sticks among the Muscogee. The location of the red pole was presumably at Scotts Bluff and it was reportedly a 30-foot-high painted pole adorned with fish bones. The settlement of Baton Rouge by Europeans began in 1721 when a military post was established by French colonists. Since European settlement, Baton Rouge has been governed by France, Britain, Spain, Louisiana, the Republic of West Florida, the Confederate States, and the United States. In 1755, when French-speaking settlers of Acadia in Canadas Maritime provinces were driven into exile by British forces, popularly known as Cajuns, the descendants of the Acadians maintained a separate culture. During the first half of the 19th century, the city grew steadily as the result of steamboat trade, Baton Rouge was incorporated in 1817
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Oxford, Mississippi
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Oxford is a city in, and the county seat of, Lafayette County, Mississippi, United States. Founded in 1837, it was named after the British university city of Oxford in hopes of having the university located there. As of the 2010 US Census, the population is 18,916, Oxford is the home of the University of Mississippi, founded in 1848, also commonly known as Ole Miss. Oxford has been named by USA Today as one of the top six college towns in the nation and it is included in The Best 100 Small Towns in America. Lafayette County consistently leads the state rankings in the lowest unemployment rate per quarter, Oxford City Schools are ranked as Star schools, the highest ranking available, and Lafayette County school systems are consistently ranked as 5-star systems. Oxford and Lafayette County were formed from lands ceded by the Chickasaw in the treaty of Pontotoc Creek in 1832. The county was organized in 1836, and in 1837 three pioneers—John Martin, John Chisom, and John Craig—purchased land from Hoka, a female Chickasaw landowner and they named it Oxford, intending to promote it as a center of learning in the Old Southwest. In 1841, the Mississippi legislature selected Oxford as the site of the state university, in the postwar Reconstruction Era, the town recovered slowly, aided by federal judge Robert Andrews Hill, who secured funds to build a new courthouse in 1872. Even after Mississippi disfranchised most African Americans in the Constitution of 1890, during the Civil Rights Movement, Oxford drew national attention in the Ole Miss riot of 1962. Thousands of armed volunteers flowed into the Oxford area, Meredith traveled to Oxford under armed guard to register, but riots by segregationists broke out in protest of his admittance. That evening, cars were burned, federal marshals were pelted with rocks, bricks and small arms fire, two men were killed by gunshot wounds. The riot spread into adjacent areas of the city of Oxford, order was finally restored to the campus with the early morning arrival of nationalized Mississippi National Guard and regular U. S. Army units, who camped in the City. More than 3000 journalists came to Oxford on September 26,2008 to cover the first presidential debate of 2008, Oxford is within 100 miles of Memphis, Tennessee. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 10.0 square miles. The city is located in the North Central Hills region of Mississippi, the region is known for its heavily forested hills made up of red clay. The area is higher and greater in relief than areas to the west, the changes in elevation can really be noticed when traveling on the Highway 6 bypass since the east-west highway tends to transect many of the north-south ridges. Downtown Oxford sits on one of these ridges and the University of Mississippi sits on another one, the streets in the downtown area follow a grid pattern with two naming conventions. Many of the streets are numbered from west to east, beginning at the old railroad depot
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Magnolia Bowl
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The teams compete for the Magnolia Bowl Trophy. The Tigers and the Rebels first met in 1894, and have been opponents in Southeastern Conference. The rivalry was at its height during the 1950s and 1960s, even though the rivalry has not attracted the same national attention in recent years, it still stirs up passion in both Oxford and Baton Rouge. Ole Miss defeated LSU 31–13 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana to become the first winner of the new trophy, in many cases, wins have come in streaks with the longest being 8. The next longest win streak is 6, a total reached by both Ole Miss and LSU, the Tigers won from 2002 to 2007, while the Rebels were able to defeat LSU from 1952 to 1957. It is the second most played rivalry for both teams, the 2011 edition in Oxford was the 100th meeting between the two schools. It was also the most lopsided game in history, as top-ranked LSU defeated Ole Miss. 1959 – Cannons Halloween Run – Late in the game between number 1 LSU and number 3 Ole Miss, LSU was trailing 0–3, then Billy Cannon returned a punt 89 yards for a TD, breaking seven tackles. The Rebels then drove down the field but were stopped on the LSU 1-yard line as the game ended resulting in a 7–3 victory for LSU in Tiger Stadium. The Rebels would get revenge however in the Sugar Bowl by defeating the Tigers 21–0, and were declared national champions by several polls. The Night The Clock Stopped – Number 6 LSU survived a bid from unranked Ole Miss in Tiger Stadium by winning the game on a TD pass from QB Bert Jones to RB Brad Davis. Ole Miss fans say the 1972 contest featured a few seconds of free football, the Tigers trailed the Rebels 16–10 with four seconds to play and the ball on the Ole Miss ten-yard line. After a short incompletion by Jones to Jimmy LeDoux at the goal line, the Tigers used the precious second to win the game on the last play, 17–16. The home-clock advantage inspired a sign at the Louisiana state line reading, set your clocks back four seconds. 1989 – The 1989 contest in Oxford, the first visit by LSU to the Ole Miss campus since 1960, one week earlier, Rebels safety Chucky Mullins suffered a career-ending injury making a tackle vs. Vanderbilt. The student body passed buckets around the stadium to a record crowd of 42,700 at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium. In excess of $150,000 was raised for the Mullins fund. The Rebels nearly pulled off a comeback of 21 points against the 1–6 Tigers, only to have the ball intercepted in the end zone in the waning seconds,1997 – The Rebels upset then number 7 LSU 36–21 one week after the Tigers shocked the then top-ranked Florida Gators
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1915 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team
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The 1915 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team represented the Georgia Tech Golden Tornado of the Georgia Institute of Technology during the 1915 college football season. The Tornado was coached by John Heisman in his 12th year as coach, compiling a record of 7–0–1. Georgia Tech played its games at Grant Field. The Tech team claims a Southern championship, and had what was then the greatest season in its history, Coach John Heismans backfield used the pre-snap movement of his jump shift offense. The teams captain was Froggie Morrison, Techs first great quarterback, fullback Tommy Spence was a future World War I casualty, and halfback Wooch Fielder was later a prominent figure in World War II. New halfback Everett Strupper was partially deaf, because of his deafness, he called the signals when he played, when Strupe tried out for the team, he noticed that the quarterback shouted the signals every time he was to carry the ball. Realizing that the signals would be a tip-off to the opposition, Strupper told Heisman, Coach. You see when sickness in my kid days brought on this deafness my folks gave me the best instructors obtainable to teach me lip-reading, Heisman recalled how Strupper overcame his deafness, He couldnt hear anything but a regular shout. But he could read your lips like a flash, no lad that ever stepped on a football field had keener eyes than Everett had. The enemy found this out the minute he began looking for openings through which to run the ball, Tech opened the season with a 52–0 defeat of the Mercer Baptists. The Tech backs plunged through the Baptists line almost at will, in the second week of play, Davidson had the upperhand for three quarters, but Tech managed to pull ahead in the third quarter, and won 21–7. In the first quarter, Davidson scored on a punt fumbled by Everett Strupper, Froggie Morrison hit Jim Senter with a 35-yard pass for a touchdown in the third quarter. Tech managed to again, and the third quarter ended with the Yellow Jackets at the 1-yard line. Tommy Spence carried over on the first play of the fourth quarter, the starting lineup for Tech against Davidson, Goree, Alexander, Reynolds, Phillips, Lang, Carpenter, Senter, Morrison, Johnston, Fielder, Spence. The Yellow Jackets romped over Transylvania 57–0, Tech made 333 yards on end runs to 7 for Transy, and 31 first downs to 5. Heisman used most of his subs, Everett Strupper was the star of the game, scoring four touchdowns. The starting lineup for Tech, Goree, Bell, Preas, Phillips, Lang, Carpenter, Senter, Morrison, Johnston, Fielder, the seasons lone road game was in New Orleans. Georgia Tech handily defeated the LSU Tigers 36–7 using conventional football, Tech repeatedly hammered LSUs left end
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Pelican Stadium
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Pelican Stadium, originally known as Heinemann Park, was a sports stadium in New Orleans, Louisiana from 1915-1957. Alexander Julius Heinemann was an officer and shareholder in the New Orleans Pelicans baseball organization, Heinemann was, however, the principal owner of the stadium and grounds where the Pelicans played. He began his career as a peanut and soda-pop vendor at Sportsmans Park in New Orleans and he died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound in his office at the ballpark in January 1930. It was most notably used by the New Orleans Pelicans baseball team from 1915 through 1957, the New Orleans Negro league baseball teams, the New Orleans Black Pelicans and New Orleans Creoles also played at the stadium. Louis Stars also played half of their games here in 1941. New Orleans was the Cleveland Indians spring training location in 1902-1903, 1905-1906,1912, 1916-1920, a short lived amusement park called White City, was on the site just before, which in turn had replaced the Pelicans prior home field, Athletic Park. The Park spanned 458 feet by 610 feet, pelican Park was located at Banks St. and Carrollton Avenue across the street from the present-day site of Jesuit High School. In 1914-1915, the wooden grandstand was disassembled and relocated three blocks down Carrollton Avenue by mules allocated by Heinemann to the intersection of Carrolton Avenue. It reopened on April 13,1915, pelican Stadium was bounded by Tulane Avenue, South Carrollton Avenue, Gravier Street, railroad tracks, and the New Basin Canal, and Pierce Street. The rail yards and canal visible behind the field area in old photos have since been replaced and covered by Interstate 10. A pair of round-roofed buildings which sat across Gravier behind right center, are visible on Google Maps. It was demolished in 1957, becoming the site of Fountainbleau Hotel, the Burger King restaurant, which sits toward the north corner of the property, approximates the location of the infield. New Orleans Pelicans Sports in New Orleans Michael Benson, Ballparks of North America, McFarland,1989, david Borsvold, Cleveland Indians, The Cleveland Press Years, 1920-1982, Arcadia Publishing,2003, p32
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New Orleans
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New Orleans is a major United States port and the largest city and metropolitan area in the state of Louisiana. The population of the city was 343,829 as of the 2010 U. S. Census, the New Orleans metropolitan area had a population of 1,167,764 in 2010 and was the 46th largest in the United States. The New Orleans–Metairie–Bogalusa Combined Statistical Area, a trading area, had a 2010 population of 1,452,502. The city is named after the Duke of Orleans, who reigned as Regent for Louis XV from 1715 to 1723, as it was established by French colonists and it is well known for its distinct French and Spanish Creole architecture, as well as its cross-cultural and multilingual heritage. New Orleans is also famous for its cuisine, music, and its celebrations and festivals, most notably Mardi Gras. The city is referred to as the most unique in the United States. New Orleans is located in southeastern Louisiana, straddling the Mississippi River, the city and Orleans Parish are coterminous. The city and parish are bounded by the parishes of St. Tammany to the north, St. Bernard to the east, Plaquemines to the south, and Jefferson to the south and west. Lake Pontchartrain, part of which is included in the city limits, lies to the north, before Hurricane Katrina, Orleans Parish was the most populous parish in Louisiana. As of 2015, it ranks third in population, trailing neighboring Jefferson Parish, La Nouvelle-Orléans was founded May 7,1718, by the French Mississippi Company, under the direction of Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, on land inhabited by the Chitimacha. It was named for Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, who was Regent of the Kingdom of France at the time and his title came from the French city of Orléans. The French colony was ceded to the Spanish Empire in the Treaty of Paris, during the American Revolutionary War, New Orleans was an important port for smuggling aid to the rebels, transporting military equipment and supplies up the Mississippi River. Bernardo de Gálvez y Madrid, Count of Gálvez successfully launched a campaign against the British from the city in 1779. New Orleans remained under Spanish control until 1803, when it reverted briefly to French oversight, nearly all of the surviving 18th-century architecture of the Vieux Carré dates from the Spanish period, the most notable exception being the Old Ursuline Convent. Napoleon sold Louisiana to the United States in the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, thereafter, the city grew rapidly with influxes of Americans, French, Creoles, and Africans. Later immigrants were Irish, Germans, and Italians, Major commodity crops of sugar and cotton were cultivated with slave labor on large plantations outside the city. The Haitian Revolution ended in 1804 and established the republic in the Western Hemisphere. It had occurred several years in what was then the French colony of Saint-Domingue
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Shreveport, Louisiana
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Shreveport is the third-largest city in the state of Louisiana and the 113th-largest city in the United States. It is the seat of Caddo Parish and extends along the Red River into neighboring Bossier Parish, Bossier City is separated from Shreveport by the Red River. The population of Shreveport was 199,311 in 2010, the Shreveport-Bossier City Metropolitan Statistical Area ranks 111th in the United States, according to the United States Census Bureau. Shreveport is the commercial and cultural center of the Ark-La-Tex region, where Arkansas, Louisiana, Shreveport was established to launch a town at the meeting point of the Red River and the Texas Trail. The Red River was cleared and made navigable by Captain Henry Miller Shreve. A 180-mile-long natural log jam, the Great Raft, had previously obstructed passage to shipping, Shreve used a specially modified riverboat, the Heliopolis, to remove the log jam. The company and the village of Shreve Town were named in Shreves honor, Shreve Town was originally contained within the boundaries of a section of land sold to the company by the indigenous Caddo Indians in 1835. In 1838 Caddo Parish was created from the large Natchitoches Parish, on March 20,1839, the town was incorporated as Shreveport. Originally, the town consisted of 64 city blocks, created by eight streets running west from the Red River and eight streets running south from Cross Bayou, Shreveport soon became a center of steamboat commerce, mostly cotton and agricultural crops. Shreveport also had a market, though slave trading was not as widespread as in other parts of the state. Steamboats plied the Red River, and stevedores loaded and unloaded cargo, by 1860, Shreveport had a population of 2,200 free people and 1,300 slaves within the city limits. During the American Civil War, Shreveport was the capital of Louisiana from 1863 to 1865, having succeeded Baton Rouge, the city was a Confederate stronghold throughout the war and was the site of the headquarters of the Trans-Mississippi Department of the Confederate Army. Fort Albert Sidney Johnston was built on a ridge northwest of the city, because of limited development in that area, the site is relatively undisturbed. Confederate President Jefferson Davis tried to flee to Shreveport, intending to go down the Mississippi, throughout the war, women in Shreveport did much to assist the soldiers fighting mostly far to the east. Winters writes of them in The Civil War in Louisiana, The women of Shreveport and vicinity labored long hours over their sewing machines to provide their men with adequate underclothing, joined by others, the Society collected blankets for the wounded and gave concerts and tableaux to raise funds. Tickets were sold for a ring given by the mercantile house of Hyams. A Confederate minstrel show gave two performances to raise money for the war effort in Shreveport in December 1862, the Shreveport Ladies Aid Society announced a grand dress ball for April 6,1863. That same month students at the Mansfield Female College in Mansfield in De Soto Parish presented a vocal and instrumental concert to support the war, the Red River, which had been opened by Shreve in the 1830s, remained navigable throughout the Civil War
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Rice Owls football
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The Rice Owls football team represents Rice University in NCAA Division I college football. The Owls have competed in Conference USAs Western Division since 2005, Rice Stadium, built in 1950, hosts the Owls home football games. Rice Stadium was built in 1950, and has been the home of Owls football ever since and it hosted the NFL Super Bowl on January 1974. It replaced the old Rice Field to increase seating, total seating capacity in the current stadium was reduced from 70,000 to 47,000 before the 2006 season. The endzone seating benches were removed and covered with tarps, and all of the bleachers were replaced with new, metal seating benches in 2006. The stadium is currently undergoing further renovations. The Owls played in the eighteenth Cotton Bowl Classic against the Crimson Tide of Alabama, referee Cliff Shaw saw Lewis come off the bench and gave the Owls the 95 yard touchdown. Rice would win the game 28-6, with the only Crimson Tide score coming from Lewis, the yardage added to Moegles 265 yards rushing, a Cotton Bowl Classic record that would stand until Tony Temples effort in 2008. This would be the Owls last bowl win until the 2008 Texas Bowl, Rice Stadium also hosted a speech by John F. Kennedy on September 12,1962. In it, he used the Rice football team to challenge America to send a man to the moon, but why, some say, the moon. Why choose this as our goal, and they may well ask why climb the highest mountain. Why,35 years ago, fly the Atlantic and we choose to go to the moon. The rivalry is because Rice and SMU were two of four schools in the old Southwest Conference. Rice participates in a rivalry with Houston. UH and Rice play annually for the Bayou Bucket, a weathered bucket found by former Rice guard Fred Curry at an antique shop, Curry had it designed into a trophy for $310. The two universities are separated by five miles in Houston, the Cougars lead the series 29-11. The Cougars 2013 move from Conference USA to the American Athletic Conference has jeopardized the status of the series though, it is scheduled to resume in 2017. Rice and Texas have maintained a largely one-sided rivalry beginning in the days of the Southwest Conference. Texas 28 consecutive victories from 1966–1993 represents the sixth longest single-opponent winning streak in football history
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Rice Track/Soccer Stadium
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Rice Track/Soccer Stadium is a stadium in Houston, Texas. It is primarily used for track and field and soccer for the Rice University Owls and it sits on the location of Rice Field, Rices old football stadium that was used prior to the opening of Rice Stadium in 1950. The venue held less than 37,000 people for football, today, it holds approximately 5,000 people. Part of the grandstand from the side of the old football stadium is used as the current grandstand. Today, there are about 100 permanent seats on the stone terracing, the soccer field was installed in 2000-2001 after Rice added womens soccer as a varsity sport. In October 2002, the stadium hosted a WUSA exhibition match between the Washington Freedom and the Atlanta Beat, the event set the current stadium record with more than 5,000 tickets sold. The stadium hosted another WUSA exhibition in 2003 and has hosted two conference tournaments, the Western Athletic Conference Tournament in 2002 and the Conference USA Tournament in 2005. The WAC Outdoor Track & Field Championships were held there in 2002, following Rices move to Conference USA in 2005, the C-USA Outdoor Track & Field Championships were hosted at the facility in 2007
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Houston
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Houston is the most populous city in the state of Texas and the fourth-most populous city in the United States. With a census-estimated 2014 population of 2.239 million within an area of 667 square miles, it also is the largest city in the southern United States and the seat of Harris County. Located in Southeast Texas near the Gulf of Mexico, it is the city of Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land. Houston was founded on August 28,1836, near the banks of Buffalo Bayou and incorporated as a city on June 5,1837. The city was named after former General Sam Houston, who was president of the Republic of Texas and had commanded, the burgeoning port and railroad industry, combined with oil discovery in 1901, has induced continual surges in the citys population. Houstons economy has an industrial base in energy, manufacturing, aeronautics. Leading in health care sectors and building equipment, Houston has more Fortune 500 headquarters within its city limits than any city except for New York City. The Port of Houston ranks first in the United States in international waterborne tonnage handled, the city has a population from various ethnic and religious backgrounds and a large and growing international community. Houston is the most diverse city in Texas and has described as the most diverse in the United States. It is home to cultural institutions and exhibits, which attract more than 7 million visitors a year to the Museum District. Houston has a visual and performing arts scene in the Theater District. In August 1836, two real estate entrepreneurs from New York, Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen, purchased 6,642 acres of land along Buffalo Bayou with the intent of founding a city. The Allen brothers decided to name the city after Sam Houston, the general at the Battle of San Jacinto. The great majority of slaves in Texas came with their owners from the slave states. Sizable numbers, however, came through the slave trade. New Orleans was the center of trade in the Deep South. Thousands of enslaved African Americans lived near the city before the Civil War, many of them near the city worked on sugar and cotton plantations, while most of those in the city limits had domestic and artisan jobs. Houston was granted incorporation on June 5,1837, with James S. Holman becoming its first mayor, in the same year, Houston became the county seat of Harrisburg County and the temporary capital of the Republic of Texas
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Battle for the Rag
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The Battle for the Rag is an American college football rivalry game played by the LSU Tigers football team of Louisiana State University and the Tulane Green Wave football team of Tulane University. The game was played every year since its inception in 1893. The winner is awarded a satin trophy flag known as the Tiger Rag at LSU, the flag is divided diagonally, with the logos of each school placed on opposite sides and the Seal of Louisiana in the center. LSUs name for the flag comes from the popular tune Tiger Rag and it is believed that this flag was destroyed in a 1982 fire at Tulanes University Center. In 2001, LSU and Tulane worked together to create a reconstruction of the rag based upon archived photographs, in 2006 the rivalry was officially renewed, returning to yearly play for the first time since 1994. The teams began play that year and continued until 2009, when it was announced that LSU would pay Tulane $700,000 to void the final six years of the home-and-home series, LSU held that it would benefit if the remaining games were all played in Baton Rouge. Not wanting to give up its home games, Tulane agreed to end the series early, source, College Football Data Warehouse † LSU was declared the winner by forfeit in the 1896 and 1901 games. The score for each prior to a forfeit declaration was, 1896-Tulane 2, LSU0. Official scores subsequent to the forfeitures are listed in the table. # Rankings are from the AP Poll released prior to each game. List of NCAA college football rivalry games LSU-Tulane series history Gameday notes for the 2001 meeting between the two teams LSU and Tulane Agree to Football Series
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Tiger Stadium (LSU)
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Tiger Stadium, popularly known as Death Valley, is an outdoor stadium located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana on the campus of Louisiana State University. It is the stadium of the LSU Tigers football team. Prior to 1924, LSU played its games at State Field. Tiger Stadium opened with a capacity of 12,000 in 1924, when filled to capacity, Tiger Stadium ranks as the fifth largest city by population in the state of Louisiana. Tiger Stadium is well known nationally for having among the best game day atmospheres in college football as well as being one of the most difficult places for a team to play. Despite being 14–2 at Tiger Stadium, famed Alabama head coach Bear Bryant once remarked that Baton Rouge happens to be the worst place in the world for a visiting team and its like being inside a drum. In 2001, ESPN sideline reporter Adrian Karsten said, Death Valley in Baton Rouge is the loudest stadium Ive ever been in, in 2002, coach Terry Hoeppner said of Tiger Stadium, Thats as exciting an environment as you can have. We had communication problems we havent had at Michigan and Ohio State, in 2003, ESPNs Chris Fowler called LSU his favorite game day experience. In 2009 former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee stated on Sean Hannitys Fox News show that Unfair is playing LSU on a Saturday night in Baton Rouge. More recently, in 2007, ESPN named Tiger Stadium the scariest place to play, saying that Tiger Stadium is, by far, the loudest stadium in the country. In 2009, ESPN writer Chris Low listed Tiger Stadiums Saturday night atmosphere as unsurpassed in the country, in 2016, Tiger Stadium was again ranked No.1 out of the conferences 14 stadiums by USA Today writers Laken Litman & Steven Ruiz. LSU prefers night games in Tiger Stadium with its opponents, the university is conflicted between maximizing its potential to win and needed advertising revenues from television coverage. In 2008, as Alabama narrowly defeated LSU, Wright Thompson of ESPN. com described Tiger Stadium as the best place in the world to watch a sporting event, in 2013, the NCAA ranked Tiger Stadium as the loudest stadium in all of college football. 3-ranked Ole Miss Rebels played the No, 24-ranked LSU Tigers on October 25. After the Tigers held the Rebels to only 7 points in a 10–7 victory, Ole Miss quarterback Bo Wallace stated and this is the craziest place Ive played. With an official seating capacity of 102,321, Tiger Stadium is the ninth-largest stadium in the world by capacity and it is the sixth-largest stadium in the NCAA and the third-largest in the Southeastern Conference, behind Kyle Field at Texas A&M University and Neyland Stadium at Tennessee. The stadium opened in 1924 and originally seated 12, 000—the lower half of the current facilitys grandstands on the east and west sidelines, in 1931,10,000 seats were added to the existing grandstands. In 1936 capacity was more than doubled with 24,000 seats in the end zone
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Charles McClendon Practice Facility
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The Charles McClendon Practice Facility is the practice facility for LSU Tigers football. The facility features the LSU Football Operations Center, the Tigers Indoor Practice Facility, in 2002, it was named after former LSU head coach and College Football Hall of Fame member, Charles McClendon. The operations center atrium holds team displays and graphics, trophy cases, the locker room features 140 stations for the players with lockable storage bins and a padded seating area in addition to multiple high-definition TVs. The players lounge includes computers at work stations, pool tables. The building holds individual position meeting rooms and the Shirley and Bill Lawton Team Room, the Lawton Team Room includes 144 theatre-style seats for team meetings and film sessions and audio and visual components for meetings, lectures and reviewing game footage. It is also equipped with medicine balls, hurdles, plyometric boxes, assorted speed and agility equipment, treadmills, stationary bikes, the weight room features multiple high-definition TVs for multimedia presentations. The football, baseball and women’s soccer teams utilize the facility, the training room also overlooking the outdoor practice fields features hydrotherapy which includes hot/cold jacuzzis and an underwater treadmill and multiple stations to treat the players. The video operations center is equipped with editing equipment to review practice, on the second floor, each coach has their own office and have access to multiple meetings rooms adjacent to their offices. A coaches lounge is located in the building. In December 2014, LSU Athletic Director Joe Alleva announced the LSU Football Operations Center will be renovated, the weight room, training room and coaches meeting rooms will be expanded, and the locker room, player’s lounge and position meeting rooms will be completely renovated. The LSU Indoor Practice Facility, built in 1991, is a climate-controlled 82,500 square feet facility connected to the Football Operations Center and it holds a 100-yd indoor field with Momentum Field Turf by SportExe. The indoor practice facility is located behind the operations center. The four outdoor practice fields are adjacent to the football operations center. Three of the fields are grass, while the fourth has a Momentum Field Turf by SportExe playing surface. LSU Football Operations Center LSU Indoor Practice Facility LSU Tigers football Tiger Stadium LSU Tigers and Lady Tigers LSU Football Operations Center at the Charles McClendon Practice Facility
