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Cornell Big Red football
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It is one of the oldest and most storied football programs in the nation. The team has attained five national championships and has had seven players inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame, in 1869, the first intramural football on the Cornell campus took place, although it did not resemble the modern sport and there were 40 players per side. In 1874, the university president and founder, Andrew Dickson White, disallowed a team of Cornell students from traveling to Cleveland, White said, I refuse to let 40 of our boys travel 400 miles merely to agitate a bag of wind. On November 12,1887, Cornell played its first intercollegiate game against Union College, the following year, the Cornellians record their first win by beating Palmyra, 26–0, and went on to finish the season with a 4–2 record. In 1889, Cornell played the University of Michigan in Buffalo, NY, in 1892, Glenn Pop Warner first played the game and the Cornellians finished the season having posted a 10–1 mark under Father of Cornell football Carl Johanson. Two years later Warner rose to become the team captain, after college, Warner began his coaching career and returned to Cornell in 1897. That year, he led the team to a 5–3–1 record, the following season, Cornell compiled a 10–2 record. Warner then moved on to coach the Carlisle Indians football team, in 1901, under first-year coach Ray Starbuck, the Cornellians outscored their opponents 324–38 and won 11 games for the only time in school history. Pop Warner returned as coach from 1904 to 1906, during which time his teams posted a 21–8 record. Cornell began playing Ivy League rival Penn in 1893 and they have played 122 times since, in every year except 1918, making this game the 5th most played college football contest in the nation. In 1915, Cornell won all nine of its games and they handed Harvard their first loss in 50 consecutive games, 10–0. Gil Dobie took over as coach in 1920. In his first season, the Cornellians posted a 6–2 record, Cornell was awarded the national championship for each of those three seasons by at least one selector. In those seasons, Cornell outscored its opponents,1,051 points to 71, Cornell defeated Penn State, 21–6, in 1938 to begin a school record unbeaten streak of 16 games. The Big Red compiled an 8–0 record in 1939 for its national championship. The possibility of a Rose Bowl invitation that season was rebuffed by the university administration, the unbeaten streak came to an end in 1940 with the infamous Fifth Down Game. After the game, Cornell voluntarily forfeited to Dartmouth when review of film showed the Big Red had inadvertently used five downs, the ESPN College Football Encyclopedia named the game, and Cornells honorable concession, the second greatest moment in college football history. In 1951, Cornell beat defending Big Ten and Rose Bowl champion Michigan, between 1969 and 1971, running back Ed Marinaro broke numerous NCAA records with a career total of 1,881 yards and 24 touchdowns
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Parke H. Davis
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Parke Hill Davis was an American football player, coach, and historian who retroactively named national championship teams in American college football from the 1869 through the 1932 seasons. He also named co-national champions at the conclusion of the 1933 season, Davis selections are included in the NCAAs official football record books, as the only championship teams chosen on the basis of research. Davis was a lineman for Princeton and a member of the Tigers tug-of-war team in 1889 before going on to coach at Wisconsin, Amherst and Lafayette and he displayed an admirable range of talents. The biggest win of the 1896 season came in Philadelphia against Pennsylvania on October 24, a standout for Lafayette was a newcomer named Fielding Hurry Up Yost. Yost began playing football at West Virginia University in 1894 at the age of 23, a 6-foot, 200-pounder, Yost was a star tackle at WVU into the 1896 season. He transferred in mid-season to join what would be Coach Davis national championship team, true to his nickname, just a week after playing against Davis in West Virginia, Hurry Up was playing for Davis in Lafayettes historic 6–4 win over the Quakers. The fortuitous timing of Yosts appearance on the Lafayette roster did not go unnoticed by Penn officials and they called it the Yost affair. The Philadelphia Ledger quoted Yost as saying that he came to Lafayette only to play football, the fact that Yost appeared in a Lafayette uniform only once. In the Penn game… and that he returned to West Virginia within two weeks of the contest, Yost assured all concerned that he would return to Lafayette for at least three years of study. But 1897 found Hurry Up no longer a student or a player, in 1901, he was hired as head coach at the University of Michigan, beginning a storied 25-year, Hall of Fame career. After concluding his own career as a football coach, Davis became a prominent attorney in Easton, Pennsylvania. He lived there the rest of his life, in the October 1900 meeting of the Lafayette Democratic Club, Davis was the orator of the evening, after the group unanimously endorsed the national ticket of William Jennings Bryan. The ex-coach and loyal supporter of athletics of Lafayette served as an umpire in football games and as starter at the colleges track meets. Davis wrote an history of American football in 1911, tracing the sports origins to ancient times. abundant evidence may be marshalled to prove that this is the oldest outdoor game in existence. In the 22nd chapter of Isaiah is found the verse, He will turn and he helped select the 1913 College Football All-America Team while serving as Princetons representative on the American Intercollegiate Football Rules Committee. He served on the Rules Committee from 1909 to 1915, playing a key role in shaping the evolution of the game. Among the innovations with which he is credited are the division of the game into quarters, numbering of players, abolition of inter-locked interference, if the fumble is recovered behind an opponents goal line the ball shall be put in play at the point where it was fumbled. Davis was a friend and admirer of Walter Camp, Father of American Football, in a 1926 authorized biography of Camp, author Harford Powel, Jr
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Gil Dobie
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Gilmour Gloomy Gil Dobie was an American football player and coach. Dobies Cornell teams of 1921,1922 and 1923 have been recognized as national champions, Dobie was also the head basketball coach at North Dakota Agricultural for two seasons from 1906 to 1908, tallying a mark of 17–5. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1951, Dobie reached 100 career wins in 108 games, which stood as the NCAA record for the fewest games needed to reach 100 wins from 1921 to 2014. Dobie was born in Hastings, Minnesota and he played football as an end and quarterback at the University of Minnesota. Dobie achieved his greatest success at the University of Washington, where he had a remarkable 58–0–3 record, during his tenure, Washington had a 40-game winning streak, which is the second longest in NCAA Division I-A/FBS history. His coaching career at Washington also comprised all of Washingtons 64-game unbeaten streak — still a college football record. Dobie then became the 16th head coach for the United States Naval Academy Midshipmen and his coaching record at the Navy was 18–3. This ranks him 14th at the Navy in total wins and first at Navy in winning percentage, after coaching at Navy, Dobie won three national championships with Cornell, in 1921,1922, and 1923 with Eddie Kaw and George Pfann. After his first season, he signed a five-year contract, Dobie remains the fastest coach to 100 wins in major-college history. His career coaching record was 182 wins,45 losses, and 15 ties, of the 33 years he coached, he had 14 undefeated seasons. At Boston College at least, the best play of the Dobie system was a smash through tackle, Dobie was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1951 as a charter member. Gil Dobie at the College Football Hall of Fame Gil Dobie at the College Football Data Warehouse
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Single wing formation
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In American and Canadian football, a single-wing formation, created by Glenn Pop Warner, was a precursor to the modern spread or shotgun formation. The term usually connotes formations in which the snap is tossed rather than handed—formations with one wingback, the single wing was superior to the T formation in its ability to get an extra eligible receiver down field. Traditionally, the single-wing was a formation that featured a core of four backs including a tailback, a fullback, a quarterback. Linemen were set unbalanced, or simply put, there were two linemen on one side and four on the side of the center. This was done by moving the off-side guard or tackle to the strong side, the single-wing was one of the first formations attempting to trick the defense instead of over-powering it. Pop Warner referred to his new scheme as the Carlisle formation because he formulated most of the offense while coaching the Carlisle Indians. The term single-wing came into use after spectators noticed that the formation gave the appearance of a wing-shape. In 1907, Warner coached at Carlisle, a school for Native Americans, the first was the discovery of Jim Thorpes raw athletic ability. The second was the use of a passing game that relied on the spiraled ball. Finally, faking backs who started one way, but abruptly headed the opposite way, because Jim Thorpe had so much raw talent, Coach Warner more than likely designed much of his single-wing offense around this gifted athlete. Thorpe, the triple threat, was a good runner, passer. For much of the history of the formation, players were expected to play on both sides of the ball. Consequently, offensive players often turned around to play a corresponding location on defense, the offensive backs played defensive backs, just as the offensive linemen played defensive linemen. Unlike teams of today, single-wing teams had few specialists who only played on certain downs, college football playbooks prior to the 1950s were dominated with permutations of the traditional single-wing envisioned by Warner. Two-time All-American Jack Crains handwritten playbook clearly denotes how the University of Texas ran their version of the single-wing circa 1939-1940, University of Texas Coach Dana X. Bible ran a line, which means that there were the same numbers of linemen on each side of the center. Also, the ends were slightly split, slightly splitting offensive ends, called flexing, was in widespread use by Notre Dames Box variation of the single-wing. Knute Rocknes Notre Dame Box offense employed a balanced line, which had 3 linemen on each side of the center, another Rockne innovation was a shifting backfield that attempted to confuse the defense by moving backs to alternate positions right before the snap
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Schoellkopf Field
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Schoellkopf Field is a 25, 597-capacity stadium at Cornell Universitys Ithaca campus that opened in 1915 and is used for the Cornell Big Red football, sprint football and lacrosse teams. The building was completed in 1913, during May of every year, weather permitting, Schoellkopf is the site of the commencement ceremony for Cornells Ithaca campus. Schoellkopf Field hosted the Division I NCAA Mens Lacrosse Championship in 1980, schoellkopfs original capacity when it was completed was about 9,000, but it has been expanded and changed many times over the years. In 1924, the newly completed Crescent replaced the original stands on the east side of the field, in 1947, the stadiums capacity was again increased, this time to a capacity of 25,597, with permanent steel fixtures to the west of the field. The west stands were torn down in March 2016 after falling into disrepair, in 1971, the surface of the field was converted to Polyturf, an artificial turf. The field has had its turf replaced by a type of turf in 1979,1988,1999. The press box above and behind the west stands was built in 1986, during the summer of 2005, renovations on deteriorating concrete forced the university to close the Crescent, but it reopened in time for the fall football season. The renovated Memorial Hall at the end of the field opened in 2006, containing improved locker rooms. Over the summer of 2008, Cornell replaced the turf with a FieldTurf pitch. NCAA Stadiums, Schoellkopf Field Summary at Ivy League official site
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Cornell University
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Cornell University is an American private Ivy League and land-grant doctoral university located in Ithaca, New York. These ideals, unconventional for the time, are captured in Cornells motto, the university also administers two satellite medical campuses, one in New York City and one in Education City, Qatar. Cornell is one of three private land grant universities in the nation and the one in New York. Of its seven colleges, three are state-supported statutory or contract colleges through the State University of New York system, including its agricultural. Of Cornells graduate schools, only the college is state-supported. As a land grant college, Cornell operates a cooperative extension program in every county of New York. The Cornell University Ithaca Campus comprises 745 acres, but is larger when the Cornell Botanic Gardens are considered. Since its founding, Cornell has been a co-educational, non-sectarian institution where admission has not been restricted by religion or race, the student body consists of more than 14,000 undergraduate and 7,000 graduate students from all 50 American states and more than 120 countries. Cornell University was founded on April 27,1865, the New York State Senate authorized the university as the land grant institution. Senator Ezra Cornell offered his farm in Ithaca, New York, as a site, fellow senator and experienced educator Andrew Dickson White agreed to be the first president. During the next three years, White oversaw the construction of the first two buildings and traveled to attract students and faculty, the university was inaugurated on October 7,1868, and 412 men were enrolled the next day. Cornell developed as an innovative institution, applying its research to its own campus as well as to outreach efforts. For example, in 1883 it was one of the first university campuses to use electricity from a dynamo to light the grounds. Cornell has had active alumni since its earliest classes and it was one of the first universities to include alumni-elected representatives on its Board of Trustees. Today the university has more than 4,000 courses, since 2000, Cornell has been expanding its international programs. In 2004, the university opened the Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar and it has partnerships with institutions in India, Singapore, and the Peoples Republic of China. Former president Jeffrey S. Lehman described the university, with its international profile. On March 9,2004, Cornell and Stanford University laid the cornerstone for a new Bridging the Rift Center to be built, Cornells main campus is on East Hill in Ithaca, New York, overlooking the town and Cayuga Lake
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1921 college football season
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Only California, Cornell, and Lafayette claim national championships for the 1921 season. Andy Smiths Pacific Coast Conference champion Wonder Team at California continued on its streak since 1920, eastern power Cornell was coached by Gil Dobie and led by one of the sports great backfields with George Pfann, Eddie Kaw, Floyd Ramsey, and Charles E. Cassidy. Jock Sutherlands Lafayette Maroons were led on the line by Frank Schwab, big Ten champion Iowa upset Notre Dame 10–7. 1921 was the last season for the old Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association, vanderbilt tied co-champion Georgia on an onside kick. On October 6, Centre upset Harvard 6–0 in what is considered one of the greatest upsets in college football history. Overjoyed students painted the impossible formula C6H0 on everything in sight, Georgia Tech also claimed a conference title. The 1922 Rose Bowl was fought to a tie, between California and Washington & Jefferson, in the last Rose Bowl to be played at Tournament Park. W&J is the smallest school to play in a Rose Bowl. Pittsburgh football game, the first college game to be broadcast live on radio. Today, college football on radio is common for every game in every division. On October 29, Centre College beat Harvard 6 to 0 in what is considered one of the greatest upsets in college football history. Overjoyed students painted the impossible formula C6H0 on everything in sight, in the 1922 Rose Bowl, the heavily favored California Golden Bears played Washington & Jefferson to a scoreless tie
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Case Western Reserve Spartans football
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The Case Western Reserve Spartans football team is the varsity intercollegiate football team representing the Case Western Reserve University, located in Cleveland, Ohio, United States. They compete in the National Collegiate Athletic Association at the Division III level and they are coached by Greg Debeljak. Home games are played at DiSanto Field, the team in its current form was created in 1970 after the federation of Western Reserve University and Case Institute of Technology. Case, originally known as Case School of Applied Science, carried the name Scientists from 1918–1939, in 1940, the mascot was changed to the Rough Riders, in honor of their head coach Ray A. Ride. Case formally updated their name in 1947 to Case Institute of Technology. Western Reserve originally used the mascot Pioneers from 1921–1927, until being forced to change by Marietta College, the famous Red Cats mascot was then used beginning in 1928. Upon the merger of the two schools, the Spartans name was adopted in 1970, as the team is now presently known, Western Reserve played its first season in 1890 and Case began the following year in 1891. Physically bordering each other, the two became instant rivals. From 1894–1953, the game was played mostly on Thanksgiving Day. Due to high civic interest and large crowds, the games were held at larger Cleveland city venues, such as League Park. Western Reserve led the all-time series 49–20–5, in 1892, Western Reserve declined Clevelander John Heismans offer to be their head coach, and then ironically faced him and his Oberlin Yeomen during the season opener, getting destroyed 38–8. Western Reserve would have their two years later in 1894, finally defeating Heisman while at home in Cleveland, ending the season with a 7–0 undefeated record. In fact, the team outscored opponents a combined 232–8, only Oberlin and Ohio State scored on Western Reserve that year. The 1902 team scored the first touchdown against Michigans legendary coach Fielding H. Yost, in fact, the headline in the Detroit Free Press referred not to Michigans victory but instead read, MICHIGANS GOAL LINE CROSSED. Western Reserve emerged to win titles in both 1907 and 1908, and again in 1915. Western Reserve is the only Ohio team with a record, 6–5–1, against the Ohio State Buckeyes. Ohio State Universitys only death of a player from game-related injuries, team captain John Sigrist, Case Tech holds a 10–11–2 all-time record against the Ohio State Buckeyes, with Coach Joe Fogg posting a perfect 4–0 record during his tenure. Famed Notre Dame coach, Knute Rockne, made his coaching debut on September 28,1918 against Case held at University Circles Van Horn Field
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St. Bonaventure Brown Indians football
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St. Bonaventure University is a private, Franciscan Catholic university in Allegany, Cattaraugus County, New York, United States, within the Diocese of Buffalo. It has roughly 2,400 undergraduate and graduate students, the Franciscan Brothers established the university in 1858. In athletics, the St. Bonaventure Bonnies play NCAA Division I sports in the Atlantic 10 Conference, students and alumni often refer to the university as Bonas, derived from the schools original name, St. Bonaventures College. The college was founded by Utica financier Nicholas Devereux, one of the first to land grants in newly surveyed Cattaraugus County from the Holland Land Company. Devereux founded the town of Allegany on the grant, hoping to build a new city and he believed the city would need religious instruction, so Devereux approached John Timon, the bishop of Buffalo, for assistance. The two invited the Franciscan order to Western New York, and a group under Father Pamfilo da Magliano, OFM. This was the first group of Franciscan brothers to settle in the United States, the school graduated its first class in 1858. St. Bonaventures College was granted university status by New York State in 1950, the largest residence hall on campus, Devereux Hall, is named for the founder. Once one of the nations most prominent Catholic colleges, St. Bonaventure ran into difficulties in the early 1990s. In February 1994, the arrival of the nineteenth president Dr. Robert J. Wickenheiser marked a beginning of changes at the university. Under the new President, the enrollment numbers increased significantly. After a few years, St. Bonaventure came out of debt, since the late 1990s, the school has been put on a more solid financial footing and has seen record growth and campus improvements in the past five years. Under the universitys twentieth president Sr, the school continues to be a vital part of the Western Southern Tier Region of Western New York. Thomas Merton, the writer, taught English at St. Bonaventure for a year just at the start of World War II. It was at school that Merton finally gave into his vocation. He entered the monastery in Kentucky in 1941, a heart-shaped clearing on a mountain in view of campus is linked to Merton in campus myth. Some students call it Mertons Heart and claim that Merton visited the place often, in reality, the hillside had been cleared for oil drilling in the 1920s and trees have since regrown, leaving the bald patch. The campus sits on 500 acres in the town of Allegany, just over the line from the city of Olean, the university has its own U. S
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Ithaca, New York
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Ithaca /ˈɪθəkə/ is a city in the Southern Tier-Finger Lakes region of New York. It is the seat of Tompkins County, as well as the largest community in the Ithaca-Tompkins County metropolitan area and this area contains the municipalities of the Town of Ithaca, the village of Cayuga Heights, and other towns and villages in Tompkins County. The city of Ithaca is located on the shore of Cayuga Lake. It is named for the Greek island of Ithaca, Ithaca is home to Cornell University, an Ivy League school of over 20,000 students, most of whom study at its local campus. Ithaca College is located just south of the city in the Town of Ithaca, nearby is Tompkins Cortland Community College. These three colleges bring tens of thousands of students who increase Ithacas seasonal population during the school year, some students settle in the area after graduation. The citys voters are more liberal than those in the remainder of Tompkins County or in upstate New York. In 2010, the population was 30,014. Namgyal Monastery in Ithaca is the North American seat of Tenzin Gyatso, indigenous people occupied this area for thousands of years. At the time of European contact, this area was controlled by the Cayuga Indians, jesuit missionaries from New France are said to have had a mission to the Cayuga as early as 1657. Saponi and Tutelo Indians, Algonquian-speaking tribes, later occupied lands at the end of Cayuga Lake. Remnants of these tribes had been forced from North Carolina by tribal conflicts, during the Revolutionary War, four of the then six Iroquois nations were allied with the British, although bands made decisions on fighting in a highly decentralized way. Conflict with the colonists was fierce throughout the Mohawk Valley. In retaliation for conflicts to the east, the 1779 Sullivan Expedition was conducted against the Iroquois peoples in the west of the state, destroying more than 40 villages and stored winter crops. It destroyed the Tutelo village of Coregonal, located near what is now the junction of state routes 13, most Iroquois were forced from the state after the Revolutionary War, but some remnants remained. The state sold off the former Iroquois lands to development and settlement by European Americans. Within the current boundaries of the City of Ithaca, Native Americans maintained only a temporary hunting camp at the base of Cascadilla Gorge, in 1788 eleven men from Kingston, New York came to the area with two Delaware people guides, to explore what they considered wilderness. The following year Jacob Yaple, Isaac Dumond, and Peter Hinepaw returned with their families and that same year Abraham Bloodgood of Albany obtained a patent from the state for 1400 acres, which included all of the present downtown west of Tioga Street
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University of Rochester
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The University of Rochester is a private, nonsectarian, research university in Rochester, New York. The university grants undergraduate and graduate degrees, including doctoral and professional degrees, the university has six schools and various interdisciplinary programs. The University of Rochester is particularly noted for its Eastman School of Music, the university is also home to the Institute of Optics, founded in 1929, the first educational program in the US devoted exclusively to optics. Rochesters Laboratory for Laser Energetics is home to the second most energetic fusion laser in the world, the University of Rochester, across all of its schools and campuses, enrolls approximately 5,600 undergraduates and 4,600 graduate students. Its 158 buildings house over 200 academic majors, additionally, Rochester is the largest employer in the Greater Rochester area and the sixth largest employer in New York. The University of Rochester was founded in 1850 as a Baptist-sponsored institution, the impetus to form the university came primarily from the town of Hamilton, New York, which has been home to Colgate University since 1819. In 1848, the Baptist Education Society planned to move Colgate University to the city of Rochester, but was halted by legal action in Hamilton. Dissenting Colgate trustees, faculty, and students founded the University of Rochester with a charter granted from the Regents of the University of the State of New York on January 31,1850, classes began that November, with approximately 60 students enrolling, including 28 transfers from Madison. In 1853, the campus moved east to a location on what is now University Avenue. Local businessman and Congressman Azariah Boody donated 8 acres of land for the new campus, UR would remain on this campus until the current River Campus was constructed in 1930, and the university continues to own a small part of the University Avenue campus. The first female students were admitted in 1900, the result of an effort led by Susan B, during the 1890s, a number of women took classes and labs at the university as visitors but were not officially enrolled nor were their records included in the college register. President David Jayne Hill allowed the first woman, Helen E. Wilkinson, to enroll as a normal student, thirty-three women enrolled among the first class in 1900, and Ella S. Wilcoxen was the first to receive a degree, in 1901. When the River Campus was completed in 1930, male students moved there while the students remained on the University Avenue campus until 1955. Major growth occurred under the leadership of Rush Rhees, during his 1900-1935 tenure, during this time, George Eastman became a major donor, giving more than $50 million to the university. The first Ph. D. was awarded in 1925, in 1955, the separate colleges for men and women were merged into The College. In 1958, three new schools were created in engineering, business administration, and education, during World War II, Rochester was one of 131 colleges and universities nationally that took part in the V-12 Navy College Training Program which offered students a path to a Navy commission. The plan also revised the undergraduate curriculum significantly, creating the current system with one required course. In the mid-1980s, the University commissioned a study to determine if the name of the institution should be changed, reports of the latter conclusion led to controversy and criticism in the Rochester community
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Colgate Raiders football
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The Colgate Raiders football team represents Colgate University in NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision college football competition as a member of the Patriot League. In 1915, Colgate recorded its 100th victory with a win over Army, the following season, they compiled an 8–1 record, with the lone loss coming against Yale, 7–3. For the 1916 season, Parke H. Davis named Colgate as the national co-champions, during the Great Depression, there was a proliferation of postseason benefit games to raise money for the unemployed. On December 6,1930, Colgate traveled to New York Citys Yankee Stadium to play New York University in one of games and won. In 1932, Colgate finished undefeated, untied and unscored upon with a 9–0 record and they outscored their opponents 234 points to 0. Parke H. Davis named the Red Raiders the national champions and they did not, however, receive an invitation to the 1933 Rose Bowl, and as such, have been referred to as undefeated, untied, unscored upon, and uninvited. The team was considered as a candidate to play in the first Sugar Bowl in January 1935, in 1982, Colgate football was relegated from the Division I-A to Division I-AA level. Since then, the team has advanced to the numerous times. In 2003, Colgate advanced to the Division I FCS final, having won 15 straight games that season, becoming the first, there, the Raiders lost to Delaware, 40–0. Two Raiders have received the Walter Payton Award for most outstanding player in Division I-AA, Kenny Gamble in 1987 and Jamaal Branch in 2003. As of 2013, he is the last Colgate player to be selected during the NFL Draft Bill Geyer – Former NFL Halfback for the Chicago Bears Michael Joseph Hayes – First Lieutenant in the United States Army. He was killed in an attack on Saint-Juvin, France on October 14,1918 and was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross. Ed Tryon – Inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1963 Belf West – offensive tackle for the Canton Bulldogs Izzy Yablok – American football player Official website
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Dartmouth Big Green football
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The Dartmouth Big Green football team represents Dartmouth College in NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision college football competition as a member of the Ivy League. The sport of football, in its form, was played on the campus as early as 1876. Goalposts were erected on the green where they stood for several months, the first intercollegiate game occurred on November 16,1881, when Amherst traveled to Dartmouth. The Green won with a score of one goal to none, on November 21, the teams met in Amherst, Massachusetts for a rematch on Thanksgiving Day, and the scoreless game ended prematurely in a tie because of snow. In the following years, Dartmouth played games against some of the best teams in the nation, in 1882, Dartmouth played Harvard for the first time and lost, 53–0. In 1884, Yale visited Dartmouth and routed the Green, 113–0, the Elis teams did not return to Hanover until 1971. From 1887 to 1898, Dartmouth competed against schools such as MIT, Amherst, during that period, the Big Green secured eight conference championships, all of them outright except one shared with MIT in 1888. From 1901 to 1909, Dartmouth compiled a 58–9–7 record under several different head coaches, in 1901, Dartmouth played their first game against their intrastate rivals, UNH. In 1903, Dartmouth traveled to Harvard for the game of their opponents stadium. The Green, who had lost the first 18 meetings by a margin of 552 points to 18, upset the Crimson. From 1911 to 1916, Frank the Iron Major Cavanaugh, led the Green to a 42–9–3 record and he volunteered for World War I at the age of 41, and was replaced as coach by one of his former players, Clarence Spears. Spears attained a 21–9–1 record with the Green, and went on to success at West Virginia and Minnesota. Before the 1922 game against Harvard, the media referring to Dartmouth as the Indians. In 1923, Jesse Hawley took over as head coach, in 1925, the Green finished 8–0, and two of that teams players, Swede Oberlander and Myles Lane, were later inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame. One, Nathan Parker, became a Rhodes Scholar, the Indians were named 1925 national champions by Parke H. Davis and the Dickinson system. Earl Red Blaik became head coach in 1934 and posted a 45–15–4 mark in his seven seasons, in 1935, he led them to their first victory over Yale, 14–6. Between 1936 and 1938, the Green compiled a 22-game unbeaten streak, against Cornell, in 1940, they played the infamous Fifth Down Game. In 1941, Blaik left to coach the Army team at West Point, the 1970 Dartmouth football team was undefeated and won the Lambert Trophy, symbolizing the best Division 1 football team in the Northeast
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Columbia Lions football
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The Columbia Lions football program is the intercollegiate American football team for Columbia University located in the U. S. state of New York. The team competes in the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision and are members of the Ivy League, Columbia played in what is generally regarded as the fourth college football game on November 12,1870 against Rutgers University in New Jersey. This was the first interstate football game ever played, the first three college football games were played between Princeton and Rutgers in 1869 and 1870. Columbia plays its games at the 17,000 seat Wien Stadium in Inwood, Manhattan. The school struggled for most of the 19th century, and it was not until after the turn of the century to which the team would have any success. The program was more successful in the first half of the 20th century. The 1915 squad went undefeated and untied, the 1933 Lions won an unofficial national championship by upsetting the top-ranked Stanford Indians 7–0 in the Rose Bowl on New Years Day. Lou Little, who coached the team from 1930 to 1956, is in the College Football Hall of Fame, in the fifth game of the 1983 season, they won 21–18 over Yale. After that game, they did not win a game again for almost five years, the streak began with a tie with Bucknell in the following game, and ending the season with a loss to Holy Cross, a tie with Dartmouth, and losses to Cornell and Brown. The losing streak was so bad, that at one point, when the team out on the field. After their 35th loss, they set the record for the longest Division I losing streak in history, after this game, Larry McElreavy, the current coach at the time told reporters, Im realistic, theres not a lot of talent here. ESPN rated the 1983–1988 Lions teams at 4th in its list of the top 10 worst college football teams of all time. The streak was broken on October 8,1988, with a 16–13 victory over archrival Princeton after a field goal attempt by the Tigers late in the game. Matthew Fox most notably played on the 88 team and that was the Lions first victory at Wien Stadium, which was already four years old, having been opened during the streak. Pro Football Hall of Famer Sid Luckman played his college ball at Columbia, Luckman is also in the College Football Hall of Fame. One famous Lion that had limited success on the field but more success in life was writer Jack Kerouac left school, another Lions back who became legendary for his accomplishments off the gridiron was baseball great Lou Gehrig, who was a two-sport star at Columbia. The Lions have just one Ivy League conference title, which won in 1961. The Columbia Lions and the Cornell Big Red, the only two Ivy League teams in New York, have met 103 times since 1889 and they dedicated the Empire State Bowl in 2010
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Polo Grounds
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The Polo Grounds was the name of three stadiums in Upper Manhattan, New York City, used mainly for professional baseball and American football from 1880 until 1963. The third Polo Grounds, built in 1890 and renovated after a fire in 1911, is the one generally indicated when the Polo Grounds is referenced. It was located in Coogans Hollow and was noted for its distinctive shape, very short distances to the left and right field walls. As the name suggests, the original Polo Grounds, opened in 1876, in baseball, the original Polo Grounds was home to the New York Metropolitans from 1880 until 1885, and the New York Giants from 1883 until 1888. The Giants played in the second Polo Grounds for part of the 1889 season and all of the 1890 season, and at the third and fourth Polo Grounds from 1891 through 1957. The Polo Grounds was also the field of the New York Yankees from 1913 until 1922. It hosted the 1934 and 1942 Major League Baseball All-Star Games, in football, the third Polo Grounds was home to the New York Brickley Giants for one game in 1921 and the New York Giants from 1925 to 1955. The New York Jets of the American Football League played at the stadium from the inaugural season of 1960 through 1963. Other sporting events held at the Polo Grounds included soccer, boxing, the last sporting event at the Polo Grounds was a football game between the New York Jets and the Buffalo Bills on December 14,1963. Shea Stadium opened in 1964 and replaced the Polo Grounds as the home of the Mets and Jets, the Polo Grounds was demolished over a period of four months that year and a public housing complex, known as the Polo Grounds Towers, was built on the site. The original Polo Grounds stood at 110th Street between Fifth Avenue and Sixth Avenue, directly across 110th Street from the northeast corner of Central Park. The venues original purpose was for the sport of polo, and its name was merely descriptive, not a formal name. For this purpose the ownership built a second diamond and grandstand at the park, dividing it into eastern and western fields for use by the Giants and Metropolitans respectively. Polo Grounds I thus hosted its first Major League Baseball games in 1883 as the stadium of two teams, the American Association Metropolitans and the National League Gothams. George Cricket Grounds on Staten Island in 1886, the original Polo Grounds was used not only for Polo and professional baseball, but often for college baseball and football as well—even by teams outside New York. The earliest known surviving image of the field is an engraving of a game between Yale University and Princeton University on Decoration Day, May 30,1882. Yale and Harvard also played their traditional Thanksgiving Day game there on November 29,1883, New York City was in the process of extending its street grid into uptown Manhattan in 1889. Plans for an extended West 111th Street ran through the Polo Grounds, City workers are said to have shown up suddenly one day and begun cutting through the fence to lay out the new street
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New York City
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The City of New York, often called New York City or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States. With an estimated 2015 population of 8,550,405 distributed over an area of about 302.6 square miles. Located at the tip of the state of New York. Home to the headquarters of the United Nations, New York is an important center for international diplomacy and has described as the cultural and financial capital of the world. Situated on one of the worlds largest natural harbors, New York City consists of five boroughs, the five boroughs – Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, The Bronx, and Staten Island – were consolidated into a single city in 1898. In 2013, the MSA produced a gross metropolitan product of nearly US$1.39 trillion, in 2012, the CSA generated a GMP of over US$1.55 trillion. NYCs MSA and CSA GDP are higher than all but 11 and 12 countries, New York City traces its origin to its 1624 founding in Lower Manhattan as a trading post by colonists of the Dutch Republic and was named New Amsterdam in 1626. The city and its surroundings came under English control in 1664 and were renamed New York after King Charles II of England granted the lands to his brother, New York served as the capital of the United States from 1785 until 1790. It has been the countrys largest city since 1790, the Statue of Liberty greeted millions of immigrants as they came to the Americas by ship in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and is a symbol of the United States and its democracy. In the 21st century, New York has emerged as a node of creativity and entrepreneurship, social tolerance. Several sources have ranked New York the most photographed city in the world, the names of many of the citys bridges, tapered skyscrapers, and parks are known around the world. Manhattans real estate market is among the most expensive in the world, Manhattans Chinatown incorporates the highest concentration of Chinese people in the Western Hemisphere, with multiple signature Chinatowns developing across the city. Providing continuous 24/7 service, the New York City Subway is one of the most extensive metro systems worldwide, with 472 stations in operation. Over 120 colleges and universities are located in New York City, including Columbia University, New York University, and Rockefeller University, during the Wisconsinan glaciation, the New York City region was situated at the edge of a large ice sheet over 1,000 feet in depth. The ice sheet scraped away large amounts of soil, leaving the bedrock that serves as the foundation for much of New York City today. Later on, movement of the ice sheet would contribute to the separation of what are now Long Island and Staten Island. The first documented visit by a European was in 1524 by Giovanni da Verrazzano, a Florentine explorer in the service of the French crown and he claimed the area for France and named it Nouvelle Angoulême. Heavy ice kept him from further exploration, and he returned to Spain in August and he proceeded to sail up what the Dutch would name the North River, named first by Hudson as the Mauritius after Maurice, Prince of Orange
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Springfield College (Massachusetts)
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Springfield College is a private, coeducational college located in Springfield, Massachusetts. The institution confers undergraduate, post-graduate, and doctoral degrees, known as the birthplace of basketball, the sport was invented at Springfield College in 1891 by graduate student James Naismith. The colleges philosophy of humanics calls for the education of the whole spirit, mind. It is symbolized by a triangle, in 1887, it added a Physical department. In 1890, it separated from the School for Christian Workers and became the YMCA Training School and in 1891, in 1905, the school became a degree-granting institution. In 1912, it took the name International YMCA College and in 1954, Springfield College has had 13 leaders since its inception in 1885. The student-to-faculty member ratio is 13 to 1, the School of Professional and Continuing Studies has eight satellite campuses located throughout the country, as well as representation on the main College campus in Springfield, Massachusetts. The School of Professional and Continuing Studies campuses are located in Boston, charleston, South Carolina, Houston, Texas, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, St. Johnsbury, Vermont, Tampa, Florida, Southern California, Springfield, Massachusetts, and Wilmington, Delaware. The College is accredited by the New England Association of Schools, Johnsbury, Vermont, Tustin, California, Tampa, Florida, and Wilmington, Delaware. Flynn Campus Union, which is complete with a court, activity and lounge space. Springfield Colleges East Campus, which encompasses 82 acres of forest ecosystem, is located one mile from the main campus. This location provides rustic facilities for conferences and meetings, and space for outdoor research and its football team will join the NEWMAC when it begins sponsoring football in 2017. The mens soccer, mens golf, cross country and gymnastics teams are members of the Eastern College Athletic Conference. The mens volleyball competes as an independent. Gulick is in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, which is named for Naismith, alumnus William G. Morgan, invented of the game of volleyball. On January 14,2017, the Springfield Wrestling team achieved their 1000th victory, Springfield College joined Oklahoma State, Iowa State, and Oregon State as the only schools to have achieved this milestone. The baseball team plays at Berry-Allen Field, the Springfield softball team appeared in one Womens College World Series in 1977. The Springfield College womens gymnastics won the first intercollegiate national championship in 1969
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Penn Quakers football
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The Penn Quakers football team is the college football team at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Penn has played in 1,364 football games, the most of any school in any division, Penn plays its home games at historic Franklin Field, the oldest stadium in football. All Penn games are broadcast on WNTP or WFIL radio, Penn bills itself as college footballs most historic program. The Quakers have had 63 First Team All-Americans, and the college is the alma mater of John Heisman, the team has won a share of 7 national championships and competed in the granddaddy of them all in 1917. Penns total of 837 wins puts them 11th all-time in college football,18 members of the College Football Hall of Fame played at Penn and 5 members of the College Football Hall of Fame coached at Penn. Penn has had 11 unbeaten seasons, Penn is one of the few college football teams to have had an exclusive contract with a network for broadcasting all their home games. For the 1950 season, ABC Sports broadcast all of Penns home games, the only other teams to have exclusive contracts are Miami and Notre Dame. The Quakers competed as an independent until 1956, when they accepted the invitation to join the Ivy League. See, NCAA #Football television controversy Penn joined the Ivy League in 1956 when it was formed, Penn won its 1st Ivy League Football Championship in 1959. It was not until 1982,23 years later, that Penn would win its 2nd Ivy League Football Championship, since that year Penn has become a dominant football power in the Ivy League. They are tied with Dartmouth in winning a record 18 Ivy League Football Championships, Penn, however, is first in outright Ivy League titles, and first in undefeated Ivy League titles. NCAA record for most college football games played -1,364, NCAA record for consecutive overtime losses -3 games Most outright Ivy League titles -13, Highest number of unbeaten Ivy League seasons -8, Longest Ivy League winning streak -20 straight games. Penn also holds the next two Longest Ivy League win streaks, record 18 Ivy League Football Championships. Penns home stadium Franklin Field is not only the oldest stadium in football, brooke - Twice All-America, College football Hall of Fame. Outland - namesake of the Outland Trophy, College Football Hall of Fame Penns total of three major award winners surpasses several BCS programs to this day. A total of 51 players from Penn have been drafted in the NFL, including NFL Hall of Famers Chuck Bednarik and Bert Bell and NFL first-round pick Skip Minisi. List of Penn Quakers in the NFL Draft Penns rivalry with Cornell is the 5th-most played college football rivalry of all time and their first game was in 1893 and have played every year since, except in 1918. Penn leads in the series, 72–46–5, since the official formation of the Ivy League in 1956 Penn has won 31 games and Cornell has won 29 games
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Franklin Field
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Franklin Field is the home of the Penn Relays, and is the University of Pennsylvanias stadium for football, lacrosse and formerly for soccer, field hockey and baseball. It is also used by Penn students for recreation, and for intramural and club sports, including football and cricket. It is located in Philadelphia, at the edge of Penns campus. It was formerly the field of the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League. Franklin Field was built for $100,000 and dedicated on April 20,1895, deemed by the NCAA as the oldest stadium still operating for football, it was the site of the nations first scoreboard in 1895. Its location was given as 37th and Spruce. Permanent Franklin Field construction did not begin until after the turn of the century, weightman Hall gymnasium, the stadium, and permanent grandstands were designed by architect Frank Miles Day & Brother and were erected from 1903 to 1905 at a cost of $500,000. The field was 714 feet long and 443 feet wide, the site featured a ¼-mile track, a football field, and a baseball diamond. Beneath the stands were indoor tracks and indoor training facilities, plans called for a new train station called Union Station which would feature a Pennsylvania Railroad stop and a stop on a proposed elevated subway line connected to the Market–Frankford Line. Architecture firm Koronski & Cameron created a rendering but plans quickly collapsed, five years later, it was decided instead to expand Franklin Field. The current stadium structure was built in the 1920s, designed by Day & Klauder, after the wooden bleachers were torn down. The lower tier was erected in 1922, the old wood stands were razed immediately following the Penn Relays and the new concrete lower tier and seating for 50,000 were built. The second tier was added in 1925, again designed by Day & Klauder, the first football radio broadcast originated from Franklin Field in 1922. It was carried by Philadelphia station WIP and this claim is pre-empted by an earlier live radio broadcast emanating from Forbes Field in Pittsburgh, on October 8,1921, a full year before Franklin Fields claim to fame. Harold W. Arlin announced the live broadcast of the Pitt-West Virginia football game on October 8,1921, the first commercial football television broadcast in 1939 also came from Franklin Field. In the universitys football heyday — when Penn led the nation in attendance — the 65, today, Franklin Field, named after Penns founder, Benjamin Franklin, seats 52,958. Franklin Field switched from grass to AstroTurf in 1969 and it was the first National Football League stadium to use artificial turf. The stadiums fifth AstroTurf surface was installed in 1993, the current Sprinturf field replaced the AstroTurf in 2004
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Philadelphia
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In 1682, William Penn, an English Quaker, founded the city to serve as capital of the Pennsylvania Colony. Philadelphia was one of the capitals in the Revolutionary War. In the 19th century, Philadelphia became an industrial center. It became a destination for African-Americans in the Great Migration. The areas many universities and colleges make Philadelphia a top international study destination, as the city has evolved into an educational, with a gross domestic product of $388 billion, Philadelphia ranks ninth among world cities and fourth in the nation. Philadelphia is the center of activity in Pennsylvania and is home to seven Fortune 1000 companies. The Philadelphia skyline is growing, with a market of almost 81,900 commercial properties in 2016 including several prominent skyscrapers. The city is known for its arts, culture, and rich history, Philadelphia has more outdoor sculptures and murals than any other American city. Fairmount Park, when combined with the adjacent Wissahickon Valley Park in the watershed, is one of the largest contiguous urban park areas in the United States. The 67 National Historic Landmarks in the city helped account for the $10 billion generated by tourism, Philadelphia is the only World Heritage City in the United States. Before Europeans arrived, the Philadelphia area was home to the Lenape Indians in the village of Shackamaxon, the Lenape are a Native American tribe and First Nations band government. They are also called Delaware Indians and their territory was along the Delaware River watershed, western Long Island. Most Lenape were pushed out of their Delaware homeland during the 18th century by expanding European colonies, Lenape communities were weakened by newly introduced diseases, mainly smallpox, and violent conflict with Europeans. Iroquois people occasionally fought the Lenape, surviving Lenape moved west into the upper Ohio River basin. The American Revolutionary War and United States independence pushed them further west, in the 1860s, the United States government sent most Lenape remaining in the eastern United States to the Indian Territory under the Indian removal policy. In the 21st century, most Lenape now reside in the US state of Oklahoma, with communities living also in Wisconsin, Ontario. The Dutch considered the entire Delaware River valley to be part of their New Netherland colony, in 1638, Swedish settlers led by renegade Dutch established the colony of New Sweden at Fort Christina and quickly spread out in the valley. In 1644, New Sweden supported the Susquehannocks in their defeat of the English colony of Maryland
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Eddie Kaw
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Edgar Lawrence Kaw was an American football player. He attended Cornell University, where he was a prominent halfback on coach Gil Dobies Cornell Big Red football team and he was a shifty open-field runner known as one of the sports greatest. His stride had one foot farther than the other, Kaw scored 90 points in 1921. That year, Cornell beat Penn 41–0 in the mud and Kaw scored five touchdowns, Kaw skipped over the ooze and water as if he were running on a cinder track, sidestepping a small lake and a Penn tackler with one and the same motion. He was elected into the Sphinx Head Society during his senior year, Kaw played 11 games for the Buffalo Bisons in 1924. In 1956, Kaw, then a resident of Oakland, California, was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame and he was flown to New York and inducted into the Hall of Fame during a halftime ceremony at the Cornell–Harvard game in October 1956. He died in Walnut Creek, California in 1971, eddie Kaw at the College Football Hall of Fame
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George Pfann
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George R. Pfann was an American football player and coach. He played college football at Cornell University, where he never lost while starring as a quarterback, before graduating from Cornell in 1924, Pfann also played on the lacrosse and basketball teams, and was elected to the Sphinx Head Society. He then studied law at Cornell while serving as an assistant football coach, Pfann completed his law degree at Brasenose College, Oxford as a Rhodes scholar. From 1931 to 1935, Pfann was the football coach at Swarthmore College. He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame as a player in 1957, George Pfann at the College Football Hall of Fame George Pfann at the College Football Data Warehouse
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Leonard C. Hanson
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Leonard Christopher Swede Hanson was a college football player and wrestler and later coach at Cornell University. He was inducted into the Cornell Athletics Hall of Fame in 1980, Hanson was a prominent tackle for the Cornell Big Red football team. Norman E. Brown of the Central Press selected Hanson for All-American and he assisted Gil Dobie at his alma mater
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Touchdown (mascot)
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Touchdown, or the Big Red Bear, is the unofficial mascot of Cornell University. The first mascot was a black bear introduced in 1915 by the Cornell University Athletic Association, three more live bears over the course of approximately two decades also made appearances at Cornell until the live bear was replaced by costumed students some years later. Touchdown appears on the logo for Cornell Athletics, the first mascot at Cornell was a black bear that the Cornell University Athletic Association acquired in the fall of 1915. The CUAA spent twenty-five dollars, excluding shipping costs, raised by the revenue from ticket sales to purchase the bear. The bear was purchased after the manager of the team received a letter from an animal trainer in Old Town. This year also marked the first year Cornell football went undefeated, Touchdown appeared at all of the games played by the Cornell football team that year. At the games, Touchdown was tethered to a stepladder so that he could climb on the sideline of the field. He also climbed a goal post before each game, which became a tradition for the fans. At the Harvard game of 1915, Touchdown traveled with the team to Cambridge, the night before the game, Touchdown was sleeping in a cage in the lobby of the Lenox Hotel, per request of the manager of the hotel. At four oclock in the morning of the game, several Harvard students stole Touchdown by posing as caretakers of the bear giving Touchdown a routine morning walk, Touchdown was found later that morning by Cornells trainer who heard cries coming from Harvards baseball cage. The janitor was reprimanded by being locked in an office, later that day at the game, the Cornell football team defeated the Crimson, ending Harvards thirty-game winning streak in football. The next week, the team took a trip to Atlantic City before the big Thanksgiving game against the University of Pennsylvania. At this point in the season, Touchdown had begun go into hibernation and was less vivacious than he was earlier in the season. When Touchdown was woken to pose for pictures with the team on a boardwalk at Atlantic City. After running wild in a shop, Touchdown escaped down a pier. Two football players, Booty Hunkin and Walt Lalley, used a raft with no paddles to rescue Touchdown who was unable to swim. Touchdown walked back to the hotel alone, Touchdown was deeper into the beginning stages of hibernation at the Thanksgiving Day football game. UPenn had brought either a coyote or a husky to the game, when Penns mascot came close enough, Touchdown smacked it across the face and knocked it out
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Give My Regards to Davy
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Give My Regards to Davy is Cornell Universitys primary fight song. David Hoy was known for his ferocity as a strict disciplinarian, professor Crane, on the other hand, was generally well liked among students. Piker is a slang term for a freshman. Theodore Zincks was a bar in downtown Ithaca that has since closed and its legend still lives on in the weekly event for seniors Zincks Night, which is celebrated worldwide in October by Cornellians. To reflect the changing diversions of students, in 1920, the Cornell Daily Sun published a new version of the song under pen name of Lord Helpus. Give my regards to Gladys Remember me to Maud and Jane Tell all the tea-hounds on the Hill That Ill be back again Tell them just how I busted Listening to the jazz bands call -- Oh. Well all write a berry in the old Wisterie When I get back next fall and this verse is only a modest form of outrage as compared to the protests that were staged and the mobs that formed. Give my regards to Ezra Remember me to Andy White, Tell all the virgins on the Hill That Ill be back some night. Tell them just how I licked it, Lappin up the brew at Jims, well all take shots at Deane Malotts When I get back again. Give My Regards to Davy as performed by the Cornell Big Red Marching Band Give My Regards to Davy as Performed by Cornell University Glee Club Songs of Cornell at Google Books
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