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Florida Gators football
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The Florida Gators football program represents the University of Florida in American college football. Florida competes in the Football Bowl Subdivision of the National Collegiate Athletic Association and they play their home games in Steve Spurrier-Florida Field at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium on the universitys Gainesville campus. The Gators have won three championships and eight SEC titles in the 108-season history of Floridas varsity football program. The Florida football program has evolved from its beginnings and achieved notable successes. Florida has had a home field since the beginning of their football program. Since 1930, their home field has been Steve Spurrier-Florida Field at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium, the stadium was known as Florida Field until 1989 when its name was extended to honor alumnus and sports benefactor Ben Hill Griffin. During the 1990s, football coach Steve Spurrier called the stadium the Swamp, the quickly became popular. Since 1906 Florida has had twenty-five head coaches, including three who were inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame for their coaching success and their first head coach was Pee Wee Forsythe in 1906, the 2015 season was the first for their twenty-fifth head coach, Jim McElwain. During the programs early years, Florida was a member of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association, in 1932 the University of Florida was a founding member of the Southeastern Conference, and it is currently one of fourteen member institutions. The Gators have competed in the SEC Eastern Division since the league began play in 1992. Florida plays an eight-game SEC schedule, with six games against the other Eastern Division teams, Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri, the schedule is filled out with an annual game against Louisiana State and a rotating SEC Western Division team. Until 2003, the Gators also played Auburn every season, Florida has also played in-state rival Florida State every year since 1958, usually facing off in the last game of the regular season. The two teams emergence as perennial football powers during the 1980s and 1990s helped build the Florida–Florida State rivalry into a game often has national-title implications. The remaining dates on Floridas regular schedule are filled by non-conference opponents which vary from year to year, previously known as the worlds largest outdoor cocktail party, it is most commonly called the Florida–Georgia game by Gator fans. The game is held at EverBank Field in Jacksonville, Florida, the designated home team alternates, with ticket distribution split evenly between the schools. In the rivalrys early years, games rotated among locations in Savannah, Georgia, Tampa, Florida, Jacksonville and, occasionally, Gainesville, since 1933 the game has been played in Jacksonville, except for 1994 and 1995. Georgia had early success in the rivalry, winning the first six games, after the 2014 game Florida had won 21 out of the most-recent 27 games, and holds a 38–28–1 advantage in the series since 1950. The Bulldogs lead the overall, 49–43–2
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Southern Conference
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The Southern Conference is a collegiate athletic conference affiliated with the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I. Southern Conference football teams compete in the Football Championship Subdivision, member institutions are located in the states of Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia. The Southern Conference ranks as the fifth-oldest major college conference in the United States. Among conferences currently in operation, the Big Ten and Missouri Valley are indisputably older, the Pac-12 Conference did not operate under its current charter until 1959, but claims the history of the Pacific Coast Conference, founded in 1915, as its own. The Southwest Conference was founded in 1914, but ceased operation in 1996 once the Big 12 Conference began play, the Southern Conference is considered one of the stronger football conferences in the Football Championship Subdivision and is considered a mid-major conference in basketball. In 2015, Furman defeated UCF 16–15 and The Citadel topped South Carolina 23–22 for their win over the Gamecocks in the past three meetings. The SoCon also frequently sees multiple teams selected to participate in the NCAA Division I Baseball Championship, talks of a new conference for southern athletics had started as early as fall of 1920. The conference was formed on February 25,1921 in Atlanta as fourteen member institutions split from the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association, in 1922, six more universities – Florida, LSU, Mississippi, South Carolina, Tulane, and Vanderbilt joined the conference. The first year of competition for the conference was in 1922, the new rules banned freshman play. Later additions included Sewanee, Virginia Military Institute, and Duke, the SoCon is particularly notable for having spawned two other major conferences. In 1932, the 13 schools located south and west of the Appalachians all departed the SoCon to form the Southeastern Conference, in 1953, seven additional schools withdrew from the SoCon to form the Atlantic Coast Conference. The SoCon became the first league to hold a basketball tournament to decide a conference champion. Although first played in 1921, it did not become official until 1922, held at the Municipal Auditorium in Atlanta from February 24 – March 2,1922, the first meeting was won by North Carolina who defeated non-member Mercer in the Finals 40-25. The SoCon Basketball Tournament continues as the nations oldest conference tournament, the next-oldest tournament overall is the SEC Mens Basketball Tournament, founded in 1933, but that event was suspended after its 1952 edition and did not resume until 1979. The all-sports membership changed to 10 schools in 2014 following the departure of Appalachian State, Davidson, Elon, and Georgia Southern, plus the arrival of East Tennessee State, Mercer, the current football membership stands at nine. UNC Greensboro does not sponsor football, while ETSU, which relaunched its previously dormant football program in 2015, on January 9,2014, the SoCon and Atlantic Sun Conference announced a new alliance in lacrosse that took effect with the 2014–15 school year. Under its terms, sponsorship of mens lacrosse shifted from the ASUN to the SoCon, bellarmine, which had announced it would join the ASUN for mens lacrosse for the 2015 season, instead joined the SoCon. The most recent additions to the associate membership came with the start of the 2016–17 school year, Full members Full members Other Conference Other Conference Due to space limitations, one portion of Washington and Lees affiliation history is not indicated in the table
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James Van Fleet
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James Alward Van Fleet was a U. S. Army officer during World War I, World War II and the Korean War. Van Fleet was a native of New Jersey, who was raised in Florida and he served as a regimental, divisional and corps commander during World War II and as the commanding General of U. S. Army and other United Nations forces during the Korean War. James Van Fleet was born in the Coytesville section of Fort Lee, New Jersey, Van Fleet received his high school education at the Summerlin Institute in Bartow, Florida. After graduating from Summerlin in 1911, Van Fleet received an appointment to the U. S, Military Academy at West Point, New York. While he was a cadet at West Point, he was a member of the Army football team and was a fullback on the undefeated Army team of 1914. Van Fleet graduated in the West Point Class of 1915 that included future generals. Van Fleets classmates included Dwight D. Eisenhower and Omar Bradley, after graduation, he was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the U. S. Army infantry. During World War I, he served as a commander as part of the American Expeditionary Force under General John J. Pershing. He led the Gators into national prominence with a 12–3–4 record, Van Fleet commanded the 8th Infantry Regiment for three years and led it into combat in Europe in World War II, participating in the D-Day landings on Utah Beach in June 1944. When Eisenhower, now the European Theater commander, informed Marshall of his mistake, Van Fleet was soon promoted to divisional, on 17 March 1945, he replaced General John Millikin as commander of III Corps where Millikin served with General George S. Pattons Third Army. The central square in the northern Greek city of Kastoria has featured a bust of Van Fleet for many years, Van Fleet was commanding general of the Second United States Army from August 10,1950 to April 11,1951. On April 14,1951, Van Fleet replaced General Matthew B. Ridgway as commander of the U. S, Eighth Army and United Nations forces in Korea when Ridgway took over for General MacArthur upon MacArthurs recall to the United States. He continued Ridgways efforts to strengthen the Eighth Army in its campaign against numerically superior Communist Chinese and his only son, U. S. Air Force Captain James A. Van Fleet, Jr. was a B-26 bomber pilot who was killed in the Korean War. At the time of his retirement from active duty on March 31,1953, I sent him to Greece and he won the war. I sent him to Korea and he won the war and he appeared on the July 26,1953, episode of Whats My Line. Van Fleet died in his sleep on his ranch outside Polk City, Florida on September 23,1992 and he was the oldest living general officer in the United States at the time of his death. Van Fleet was buried in Section 7 of Arlington National Cemetery, shortly after his death, The Korea Society established its annual James A. Van Fleet Award to recognize those who have made outstanding contributions to closer U. S. -Korea ties. The Gen. James A. Van Fleet State Trail, running from Polk City to Mabel and he was inducted into the University of Florida Athletic Hall of Fame as an honorary letter winner in 1971
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Notre Dame Box
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Green Bays coach, Curly Lambeau, learned the Notre Dame Box while playing for Knute Rockne in the late 1910s. Rockne learned it from Jesse Harper, who learned it from coach Amos Alonzo Stagg and it contained two tight ends, and 4 backs. The formation often featured a line where the center was not strictly in the center of the line. Players line up in T formation then shift to a box formation and these two changes made the backs formation resemble a square and made the formation less predictable, allowing offenses to run more easily to the weak side. The Notre Dame Box relied on a deal of deception, caused by backs shifting frequently. Teams would often adopt the Notre Dame Box if they lacked a true triple threat tailback, rocknes innovations with this formation involved using complicated backfield shifts and motion to confuse defenses, and adapting it as a passing formation. The formation was designed as a brute-force running formation, since it had 7 players to one side of the center. The Packers, using the Notre Dame Box almost exclusively, won three straight NFL titles from 1929–1931, from 1936 through 1945, Green Bay made use of the Notre Dame Box to exploit Don Hutsons receiving ability. Bringing the halfback in tight allowed Hutson to split out from the line, Hutson, impossible to cover one-on-one by any defensive back of his day, averaged a touchdown every five times he caught the ball, a mark that no receiver has rivaled in NFL history. Green Bay tailbacks of those years were among the first NFL passers to post modern numbers, arnie Herber was the first NFL player to pass for over 1,000 yards in 1936, throwing for 1239 yards and 11 touchdowns. Of that,526 yards and 8 TDs were to Hutson, in 1939, Herber and Cecil Isbell combined for 1856 yards passing and 14 touchdowns. The Packers finally switched to the T-formation, after Don Hutson had retired, no major NCAA or NFL team has used this formation since and much of the knowledge associated with this formation is no longer available. Use of the Notre Dame Box in modern times has been limited in part due to changes in football rulebooks regarding motion and this motion player must be moving backward or laterally. Canadian football never adopted these changes, and the version of the system is still legal. The head coach of team, Travis Conner, later moved on to Jacksonville High School in nearby Jacksonville, North Carolina and installed the Notre Dame Box there. In 2010, Keith Kenyon took over the coaching duties of the Varsity Football team at Nauset Regional High School in Massachusetts. His single wing offense is largely based on the Notre Dame Box formation, since his arrival, he has taken a downtrodden Nauset team to a playoff contender in his first 2 years. Nauset went 6-5 in 2010, 8-3 in 2011, and 9-2 in 2012 due to the success of the Notre Dame Box, in 2012, Nauset once again played for the Atlantic Coast League Championship against Plymouth South
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W. M. Robinson
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Winthrop Marston Robbie Robinson was an American college football player and insurance salesman. While he played at UF he was said to be from Mobile, Robinson was a prominent tackle for the Florida Gators of the University of Florida from 1921 to 1923. The first time the Gators ever traveled to the East, Harvard subs overwhelmed Florida 24 to 0 in front of the largest crowd yet to see the Gators play, despite the loss, Robinson, who at times stood Harvards backs on their heads, played well. Robinson and Duncan stood out all afternoon and he was the captain of the 1923 team which upset the Alabama Crimson Tide on Thanksgiving Day 16 to 6. He also remarked on the goal line stands by Florida. Robinson was selected All-Southern in 1923
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1922 Florida Gators football team
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The 1922 Florida Gators football team represented the Florida Gators of the University of Florida during the 1922 Southern Conference football season. The season was law professor William Klines third and last year as the coach of the Florida Gators football team. Klines 1922 Florida Gators finished 7–2 overall, and 2–0 in their first year as members of the new Southern Conference, despite the undefeated conference record, the team played only two conference opponents and so did not rank as co-champion with Vanderbilt, Georgia Tech, and North Carolina. The 1922 Spaldings Football Guide ranked Florida as the best forward passing team in the country, in the first season of the new Southern Conference, freshmen were barred from play. 1921 had been the best year in Florida football history, Florida had two of the Souths best punters in running backs Ark Newton and Ray Dickson. Primary source,2015 Florida Gators Football Media Guide, the lone upset of the year happened in the opening game with a 7 to 6 loss to coach Billy Lavals Furman Purple Hurricane. A muddy and slippery field plagued the first half, Florida had two touchdowns called back and halfback Case once fell down with a clear field in front of him. The Gators only score was made in a downpour, Furman scored on its only completed pass, a long one of 60+ yards. Ark Newton once failing to kick goal proved to be the difference, as a result of this game, the coaches revised their tactics and strategy. The starting lineup was, Coleman, Robinson, Norton, Gunn, Scott, Doty, Duncan, Barchan, Pomeroy, Newton, again rain and a soggy field hampered play in the second week against the Rollins Tars in Orlando. Florida only rolled up 19 points with the new tactics, Dickson made two touchdowns and Newton one. The starting lineup was, Coleman, Robinson, Norton, Gunn, Scott, Doty, Duncan, Barchan, Pomeroy, stewart Pomeroy scored both touchdowns and Ray Dickson made both extra points. The last touchdown from Pomeroy was a run around right end. In the game against coach Harris Copes Howard Bulldogs in Gainesville, Florida seemed to find its stride within the new system. The starting lineup was, Coleman, Robinson, Byrd, Gunn, Scott, Doty, Duncan, Pomeroy, Case, in the Gators first ever game against a traditional northeastern college football power, they traveled north to meet coach Bob Fishers Harvard Crimson. On their way north the Gators stopped in Washington, D. C. and were greeted by President Warren Harding, Harvard subs overwhelmed the Florida team 24 to 0 in front of the largest crowd yet to see the Gators play. The stars for Florida that day included backs Ray Dickson and Ark Newton, on the line, Robbie Robinson, who at times stood Harvards backs on their heads, played well. Robinson and Duncan stood out all afternoon, the starting lineup was, Hockinstadt, Robinson, Byrd, Gunn, Scott, Doty, Duncan, Pomeroy, Newton, Case, Dickson
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1924 Florida Gators football team
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The 1924 Florida Gators football team represented the University of Florida during the 1924 Southern Conference football season. This was Major James Van Fleets second and final year as the coach of the Florida Gators football team. Van Fleets 1924 Florida Gators finished 6–2–2 overall, and 2–0–1 in the Southern Conference, the season also involves a tie with southern power Georgia Tech. Coach Van Fleets assignment was changed to the Panama Canal Zone, more than 100 players took part in the game between the varsity and freshmen. A 4-month old Florida black bear captured by a freshman wandered onto the field on October 1, some fan placed a Gator banner on its back, and it never caused much trouble. Primary source,2015 Florida Gators Football Media Guide, at the newly completed Fleming Field in Gainesville the Gators rolled up a 77–0 score on the Rollins Tars. The game was played mostly in the rain, every man on the Gator squad saw playing time. Owen Pittman scored three touchdowns, Tiny Chaplin, Ark Newton, Spic Stanley, and Bob Brumby scored two each, and Dick Brown scored one, Newton had five extra points, Brown two, and Brumby one. The starting lineup for the Gators against Rollins, Todd, Williams, Norton, Cornwall, Goldstein, Davis, Oosterhoudt, Murphree, Newton, Brown, Chaplin. The Gators and Bill Alexanders Georgia Tech Golden Tornado fought to a 7–7 tie, within the first few minutes, Tech scored when Gus Merkle launched at Edgar C. Jones, causing him to crash into the approaching Cy Williams, doug Wycoff picked it up and ran 35 yards for the score. Florida once fumbled at Techs 1-yard line, again the Gators drove to the goal, and a Jones to Ark Newton pass tied the game. The starting lineup for the Gators against Georgia Tech, Lightsey, Williams, Norton, Cornwall, Goldstein, Smith, Oosterhoudt, Jones, Newton, Brown, on Plant Field in a drizzling rain, Florida defeated the Wake Forest Demon Deacons 34–0, a surprising score. Fullback Tiny Chaplin was the star of the day, as well as the passes of captain Ark Newton, Edgar C. Jones on punt returns. Bill Middlekauff was kept out of the due to injures sustained versus Tech. The starting lineup for the Gators against Wake, Lightsey, Williams, Norton, Cornwall, Goldstein, Smith, Merrin, Jones, Newton, Brown, both Florida and the Texas Longhorns faced one of their seasons stiffest tests when the Gators traveled to Austin. The game ended a 7–7 draw, and was a controversial one, Florida scored on an illegal play which went unnoticed, a pass from Edgar Jones to Spec Lightsey, who had lined up at tackle. Texas scored on the last of the first half, after the clock had run out already, upon return from the Texas game the Gators got some time off practice to attend the circus in town
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1923 Vanderbilt Commodores football team
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The 1923 Vanderbilt Commodores football team represented Vanderbilt University during the 1923 Southern Conference football season. The teams head coach was Dan McGugin, who served his 19th year in that capacity, Vanderbilt won its conference for the third straight year, tying with Washington & Lee for the Southern Conference championship. Most sportswriters listed the Commodores as the winner of the mythical Southern crown. It is to date the last conference title for Vanderbilt football, the team suffered losses to the national champion Michigan Wolverines and the undefeated Texas Longhorns. The offense was led by captain and quarterback Doc Kuhn and All-Southern halfback Gil Reese, the defense which averaged 2.33 points per game at home, was anchored by All-Southern ends Lynn Bomar and Hek Wakefield. Bomar was also a consensus All-American, even selected such by Walter Camp, of Wakefields performance during the game with the Wolverines, Michigan head coach Fielding Yost said I never saw a greater exhibition of end play. As was common in 1923 and the days of one platoon football, following two unbeaten seasons, Wallace Wade left his position at assistant coach to be head coach at Alabama, where he went on to win three national and four SoCon titles. He was replaced at Vanderbilt with former All-American tackle and Vanderbilt alumnus Josh Cody, Vanderbilt faced a hard schedule through the month of October. Quarterback Doc Kuhn was elected captain at the end of last year, lengthy end Tot McCullough was ruled ineligible for the coming season. Those who played for baseball in the South Georgia league, or any other unrecognized one, were disallowed from participating in varsity athletics in the Southern Conference, Tot had played with the Albany club. The Commodores opened the season at Dudley Field against the Howard Bulldogs on October 6 and were considered heavy favorites, Vanderbilt won by a score of 27–0. The regulars played only in the first quarter, scoring 20 points, Captain Doc Kuhn once returned a kickoff 80 yards. To the woe of Commodore fans, tackle Tex Bradford was ruled ineligible on October 10 and his loss was lamented so near the eve of the Michigan game, for his line work against them was materially responsible for the 0 to 0 tie of last year. In the second week of play, Vanderbilt traveled to Ann Arbor for a rematch of last years scoreless tie with the Michigan Wolverines. There was much optimism among the Vanderbilt faithful, for last year its team had many injuries when it tied Michigan, Michigans A. J. Sturzenegger had scouted Vanderbilt shortly before the game, and found the Commodores to have good reason for thinking they could win. He was not alone in this view, the Commodores were regarded as having fully as strong an aggregation as last year, Vanderbilt lost the hard fought game 3-0, handing the Commodores their first loss in two years. Much like last year, the game featured little offense and stalwart defense, Vanderbilt handcuffed the Wolverines running and passing game and had a defense which became nothing less than a stone wall whenever her goal was threatened. Both Commodore halfback Gil Reese and Wolverine halfback Harry Kipke were marked men, Reese and Doc Kuhn were said to raise fans to their feet with the showcase of speed, but the Wolverines kept it confined to sideways runs of little gain
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1923 Maryland Aggies football team
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The 1923 Maryland Aggies football team represented the University of Maryland in the 1923 college football season. In their 13th season under head coach Curley Byrd, the Aggies compiled a 7–2–1 record, finished in place in the Southern Conference. In 1923, the stadium, for which coach Byrd had petitioned for funding, was completed at a cost of $60,000 with a maximum capacity of 10,000. That season was one of Byrds most successful. He hired former Maryland quarterback and future long-time basketball coach, Burton Shipley, the team shutout five of its opponents and held Johns Hopkins and Catholic to just six points apiece. The only losses came at Yale and against Virginia Tech, Maryland led Yale, 14–12, at halftime, but a referee ruled incomplete a drop kick that Byrd claimed was good by a country mile. Mainly for his performance against Yale and Penn, end Bill Zeke Supplee was named an All-American by the Associated Press and he was the first Maryland player honored as such. HC W 40-63,000 N29 Johns Hopkins T2 T 6-611 at Washington, D. C.2 at Baltimore, Md
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1923 Tennessee Volunteers football team
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The 1923 Tennessee Volunteers football team represented the University of Tennessee in the 1923 college football season. Playing as a member of the Southern Conference, the team was led by head coach M. B, banks, in his third year, and played their home games at Shields-Watkins Field in Knoxville, Tennessee. The 1922 Vols won five, lost four, and tied one game, playing all but four games at home, the 1923 Vols were outscored by their opponents 167 to 82 and were shut out three times
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NC State Wolfpack football
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The NC State Wolfpack football team represents North Carolina State University in the sport of American football. The Wolfpack competes in the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, prior to joining the ACC in 1953, the Wolfpack were a member of the Southern Conference. As a member of the ACC, the Wolfpack has won seven championships and participated in 30 bowl games. NC State is currently coached by Dave Doeren, in their latest season under Doeren, the Wolfpack finished 7-6 after a 41-17 victory over Vanderbilt in the Independence Bowl. Since 1966, the Wolfpack has played its games at Carter-Finley Stadium. On September 16,2010, NC State restored the tradition of having a mascot on the field as a wolf-like Tamaskan Dog named Tuffy was on the sidelines for the Cincinnati game in Raleigh. Since then, Tuffy has not missed a Wolfpack football game in Carter-Finley Stadium, NC State played its first football game against a team from the Raleigh Male Academy on March 12,1892 in what is now Pullen Park. The Aggies, whose colors were blue and pink, won 12-6 in front of more than 200 spectators, the following year, the school played its first intercollegiate game, a 12-6 victory over Tennessee College. The programs long-standing rivalry with nearby University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill began on October 12,1894 with a 44-0 UNC victory in Chapel Hill, eight days later, the team lost again to UNC, 16-0 in Raleigh. In 1895, under third-year coach Bart Gatling, the team wore red, over the next five seasons the program continued to try to establish itself, achieving only one winning season during the period. The football team has only had scholarship football players since 1933. In 1906, in a game against Randolph-Macon in Raleigh, the Farmers attempted their first forward pass, the following season was the programs most successful yet. Under coach Mickey Whitehurst, A&M won the South Atlantic Intercollegiate Athletic Association championship with a 6–0–1 record and that season, the program also recorded its first ever victory over Virginia. The Farmers played their games that season on campus at the New Athletic Park. In addition to Pullen Park, the fairgrounds had hosted some games prior to the opening of the new stadium. The team won a second South Atlantic championship in 1910 under coach Edward Green, a win over Virginia Tech in Norfolk that season was dubbed the biggest game ever played in the South. Coach Green led team to a conference championship in 1913. The 1918 season was cut due to the United States entrance into World War I
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1923 Auburn Tigers football team
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The 1923 Auburn Tigers football team represented Auburn University in the 1923 college football season. It was the Tigers 32nd overall and they competed as a member of the Southern Conference, the team was led by head coach Boozer Pitts, in his first year, and played their home games at Drake Field in Auburn, Alabama. They finished with a record of three wins, three losses and three ties
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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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University of Florida
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The University of Florida is an American public land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant research university on a 2, 000-acre campus in Gainesville, Florida. It is a member of the State University System of Florida and traces its origins to 1853. The University is classified as a Research University with Very High Research by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, for 2017, U. S. News & World Report ranked Florida as the fourteenth best public university in the United States. The university is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools and it is the third largest Florida university by student population, and is the eighth largest single-campus university in the United States with 49,913 students enrolled for the fall 2012 semester. The University of Florida is home to sixteen colleges and more than 150 research centers. The University of Florida traces its origins to 1853, when the East Florida Seminary, on January 6,1853, Governor Thomas Brown signed a bill that provided public support for higher education in Florida. Gilbert Kingsbury was the first person to take advantage of the legislation, and established the East Florida Seminary, the East Florida Seminary was Floridas first state-supported institution of higher learning. James Henry Roper, an educator from North Carolina and a senator from Alachua County, had opened a school in Gainesville. In 1866, Roper offered his land and school to the State of Florida in exchange for the relocation of the East Florida Seminary to Gainesville, the second major precursor to the University of Florida was the Florida Agricultural College, established at Lake City by Jordan Probst in 1884. Florida Agricultural College became the states first land-grant college under the Morrill Act, in 1905, the Florida Legislature passed the Buckman Act, which consolidated the states publicly supported higher education institutions. The member of the legislature who wrote the act, Henry Holland Buckman, later became the namesake of Buckman Hall, the Buckman Act organized the State University System of Florida and created the Florida Board of Control to govern the system. The City of Gainesville, led by its Mayor William Reuben Thomas, on July 6,1905, the Board of Control selected Gainesville for the new university campus. Andrew Sledd, president of the pre-existing University of Florida at Lake City, was selected to be the first president of the new University of the State of Florida, architect William A. Edwards designed the first official campus buildings in the Collegiate Gothic style. Classes began on the new Gainesville campus on September 26,1906, in 1909, the schools name was simplified from the University of the State of Florida to the University of Florida. The alligator was incidentally chosen as the mascot in 1911, after a local vendor ordered. Murphree is the only University of Florida president honored with a statue on the campus, before this, only the summer semester was coeducational, to accommodate women teachers who wanted to further their education during the summer break. Lassie Goodbread-Black from Lake City became the first woman to enroll at the University of Florida, john J. Tigert became the third university president in 1928. By the end of the 1946–47 school year,954 men were enrolled at the Tallahassee Branch, the following semester, the Florida Legislature returned the Florida State College for Women to coeducational status and renamed it Florida State University
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United States Army
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The United States Armed Forces are the federal armed forces of the United States. They consist of the Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force, from the time of its inception, the military played a decisive role in the history of the United States. A sense of unity and identity was forged as a result of victory in the First Barbary War. Even so, the Founders were suspicious of a permanent military force and it played an important role in the American Civil War, where leading generals on both sides were picked from members of the United States military. Not until the outbreak of World War II did a standing army become officially established. The National Security Act of 1947, adopted following World War II and during the Cold Wars onset, the U. S. military is one of the largest militaries in terms of number of personnel. It draws its personnel from a pool of paid volunteers. As of 2016, the United States spends about $580.3 billion annually to fund its military forces, put together, the United States constitutes roughly 40 percent of the worlds military expenditures. For the period 2010–14, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute found that the United States was the worlds largest exporter of major arms, the United States was also the worlds eighth largest importer of major weapons for the same period. The history of the U. S. military dates to 1775 and these forces demobilized in 1784 after the Treaty of Paris ended the War for Independence. All three services trace their origins to the founding of the Continental Army, the Continental Navy, the United States President is the U. S. militarys commander-in-chief. Rising tensions at various times with Britain and France and the ensuing Quasi-War and War of 1812 quickened the development of the U. S. Navy, the reserve branches formed a military strategic reserve during the Cold War, to be called into service in case of war. Time magazines Mark Thompson has suggested that with the War on Terror, Command over the armed forces is established in the United States Constitution. The sole power of command is vested in the President by Article II as Commander-in-Chief, the Constitution also allows for the creation of executive Departments headed principal officers whose opinion the President can require. This allowance in the Constitution formed the basis for creation of the Department of Defense in 1947 by the National Security Act, the Defense Department is headed by the Secretary of Defense, who is a civilian and member of the Cabinet. The Defense Secretary is second in the chain of command, just below the President. Together, the President and the Secretary of Defense comprise the National Command Authority, to coordinate military strategy with political affairs, the President has a National Security Council headed by the National Security Advisor. The collective body has only power to the President
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Reserve Officers' Training Corps
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The Reserve Officers Training Corps are a group of college-based officer training programs for training commissioned officers of the United States Armed Forces. ROTC officers serve in all branches of the U. S. armed forces, under ROTC, a student may receive a competitive, merit-based scholarship, covering all or part of college tuition, in return for an obligation of active military service after graduation. The U. S. Coast Guard offers a program to ROTC under a different name. The students participate in regular drills during the year. Some of the training that is offered to cadets in the Army ROTC program are, Airborne, Air Assault, Mountain Warfare, WHINSEC. Army ROTC units are organized as brigades, battalions, and companies, Air Force ROTC units are detachments with the students organized into wings, groups, squadrons, and flights. Army and Air Force ROTC students are referred to as cadets, Navy ROTC units are organized as battalions, and also include NROTC students under Marine Option who will eventually be commissioned as officers in the Marine Corps. Marine NROTC students may be formed in a company when the program includes sufficient numbers. All Navy ROTC students are referred to as midshipmen, the term of obligatory service varies based on the type of commission the cadet or midshipman receives, as well as any scholarship contract signed. They can serve as duty or in a reserve status. Additionally, a cadet on active duty can receive either a regular appointment or a reserve appointment and this affects the required years, as well as how many must be completed on active duty, in an active reserve capacity, or in the Individual Ready Reserve. Under federal law, graduates of an ROTC scholarship program incur an active duty service obligation. Recipients incur an eight-year MSO if they accept a commission and serve in a reserve component, finally, recipients incur at least a six-year MSO and up to an eight-year ADSO if they accept a commission and serve in a reserve component with at least two years of active duty. Army ROTC students who receive an Army ROTC scholarship or enter the Army ROTC Advanced Course must agree to complete a period of service. This can include three active duty, with the balance in the IRR. The service obligation for a Navy ROTC student is five years in the Navy, the active-duty service obligation for an Air Force ROTC student is four years, or eight years for Combat Systems Officers, or six years Air Battle Management officers, or ten years for pilots. The concept of ROTC in the United States began with the Morrill Act of 1862 which established the land-grant colleges, part of the federal governments requirement for these schools was that they include military tactics as part of their curriculum, forming what became known as ROTC. The college from which ROTC originated is Norwich University in Northfield, Norwich was founded in 1819 at Norwich, Vermont, as the American Literary, Scientific and Military Academy
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Homecoming
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Homecoming is the tradition of welcoming back former students and celebrating a schools existence. It is a tradition in high schools and colleges in the United States, Canada. Homecoming is a tradition in the United States. People, towns, high schools, and colleges come together, usually in late September or early October, to welcome back alumni and former residents. It is built around an event, such as a banquet and, most often. When celebrated by schools, the activities vary widely, a dance commonly follows the game or the day following the game. When attached to a game, Homecoming traditionally occurs on the teams return from the longest road trip of the season. The game itself, whether it be football or another sport, the game is supposed to be an easy win and thus weaker schools will sometimes play lower division schools. The tradition of Homecoming has its origin in alumni football games held at colleges and universities since the 19th century, Many schools including Baylor, Southwestern, Illinois, and Missouri have made claims that theyve held the first modern homecoming. The NCAA, Trivial Pursuit, Jeopardy. and references from the American TV drama NCIS give the title to the University of Missouris 1911 football game during which alumni were encouraged to attend and it was the first annual homecoming centered on a parade and a football game. Along with the game, the celebration included a parade. The event was a success, with nearly 10,000 alumni coming home to part in the celebration and watch the Tigers. The Missouri annual homecoming, with its parade and spirit rally centered on a football game is the model that has gone on to take hold at colleges. At least two collegiate homecoming celebrations predate the University of Missouri football game homecoming event, Southwestern University, in Georgetown, TX and Baylor University, in Waco, TX. By multiple historical accounts, Southwestern held the first Homecoming on record on Wednesday, former students raised funds, provided homes, prepared and served a barbecue supper, and decorated the town buildings. Members of the senior class waited tables, northern Illinois University has one of the longest-celebrated homecoming traditions in the country. The alumni football game played on Oct.10,1903, baylors homecoming history dates back to November 1909 and included a parade, reunion parties and an afternoon football game, a tradition that continued and celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2009. There was a gap between 1910 and 1915 when there was no homecoming event, however there has been continuity since 1915, the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign claims to have first held a homecoming event in 1910, celebrating the 100th anniversary in 2010
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Mercer Bears football
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For information on all Mercer University sports, see Mercer Bears The Mercer Bears football program is the intercollegiate football team of Mercer University located in Macon, Georgia, United States. The team competes in the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision and is a member of the Southern Conference, the team plays its home games at the 10, 200-seat Tony and Nancy Moye Football and Lacrosse Complex on the universitys Macon campus. The Bears are coached by Bobby Lamb, mercers first football team was fielded in 1892, but the school did not consistently field teams until 1906. The sport was dropped in 1917 and 1918 during U. S. involvement in World War I, until 1924, the Mercer Bears were known as the Mercer Baptists. After the 1941 season, with the beginning of U. S. involvement in World War II, Mercer dropped football again, but did not resume the sport after the war. The program was reinstated after a 72-year hiatus in 2013, the first game was on August 31,2013, Georgia Tech player and later Hall of Fame coach Bill Alexander called Grice the meanest and toughest guy I ever ran across on a gridiron. Brothers Crook Smith and Phoney Smith were both stars for Mercer, famous University of Georgia football coach Wally Butts, who lead UGA to four Southeastern Conference titles and two National Championships, played end for Mercer from 1925-1928. Les Olsson, known around Mercer as Swede, was the only Mercer player from the pre-World War II era to go pro and he was part of the 1937 championship squad. On August 31,2013, Mercer played its first game since 1941 before a crowd of 12,172 spectators. The Bears opponent, Reinhardt University, also revived its football program, in a thrilling game that saw multiple lead changes, Josh Shutter helped Mercer clinch the victory with a 31-yard field goal with three seconds left in the game
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Wallace Wade
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William Wallace Wade was an American football player and coach of football, basketball, and baseball. His tenure at Duke was interrupted by service during World War II. Wade won a total of ten Southern Conference football titles, four with Alabama and he coached in five Rose Bowls including the 1942 game, which was relocated from Pasadena, California to Durham, North Carolina after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Wade served as the basketball and baseball coach at Vanderbilt University for two seasons, tallying a mark of 24–16, while he was an assistant football coach there. He was also the baseball coach at Vanderbilt from 1922 to 1923 and at Alabama from 1924 to 1927. Wade played football at Brown University, after retiring from coaching, Wade served as the commissioner of the Southern Conference from 1951 to 1960. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1955, Dukes football stadium was renamed in his honor as Wallace Wade Stadium in 1967. Wade was born in Trenton, Tennessee and he first played football under Tuck Faucett at Peabody High School in Trenton. Wade also attended Chicagos Morgan Park Academy and he went on in 1913 to play football at Brown University. Wade played guard on the Brown football team, which went to the 1916 Rose Bowl, one of his teammates at Brown was Fritz Pollard, who went on to become the first African American coach in the National Football League. After spending time in the Army and rising to the rank of captain, W. S. Fitzgerald hired him as head coach at the Fitzgerald and Clarke Military School in Tullahoma. He went 15–2 in football, winning a state championship in 1920. Among his players were future consensus All-Americans Lynn Bomar and Hek Wakefield and he also posted successful basketball teams at Fitzgerald–Clarke. In 1921 Wade was hired as an assistant and line coach at Vanderbilt University under Dan McGugin, soon after, on March 14,1922, Fitzgerald & Clarke burned to the ground and was never rebuilt. Vanderbilt posted an undefeated 15–0–2 with Wade, and shared conference titles both years he was there, defending Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association champion Georgia was undefeated, having not allowed a score through its powerful line all year. Its line was composed of four All-Southerns, Joe Bennett, Bum Day, Owen Reynolds, Vanderbilt, too, was undefeated, and so the game was figured to decide the conference champion. It was described by the New York Times as an important clash, the Bulldogs were the favorite to win this meeting of the two schools, first since 1912, in part because the Bulldogs may have outplayed Harvard and defeated Auburn earlier in the season. Lynn Bomar starred at the linebacker position, Georgia would have trampled Vanderbilt to atoms but for Lynn Bomar, observed Nashville Tennessean sportswriter Blinkey Horn
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Cy Williams (American football)
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Burton was born on October 12,1903 in Canoe, Alabama to Benjamin Collis Williams and Maria Prescott. His father Benjamin was a long-time turpentine operator at Sopchoppy, Florida and his father died of pellagra in 1913. Williams attended the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, where he played for coach James Van Fleet, in his first season on the freshman team, the team won the southern crown for freshmen squads. He was remembered as an athlete and a key Gator lineman, blocking the way for such notable Gators backs as Ark Newton. A new dummy was brought out but it is predicted that it will not last long under the fierce tackling of the Gators gridders, in 1926, he played professionally for the Newark Bears of the American Football League, appearing in all five games played by the Bears. The team was notable for the number of players from Georgia Tech, the Bears are remembered for the teams financially weak ownership group, which led to the folding of the team mid-season. During the 1929 and 1930 NFL seasons, Williams played tackle for the Staten Island Stapletons in 22 regular season games and he also appeared in a single game for the NFLs Brooklyn Dodgers in 1932, before being released. Williams also worked as a wrestler during the 1930s. NWA Florida NWA Florida Heavyweight Championship List of Florida Gators football players in the NFL List of Newark Bears players List of Staten Island Stapletons players
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Mannequin
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A mannequin is an often articulated doll used by artists, tailors, dressmakers, windowdressers and others especially to display or fit clothing. During the 1950s, mannequins were used in tests to help show the effects of nuclear weapons on humans. Mannequin comes from the French word mannequin, which had acquired the meaning an artists jointed model, in early use in the United Kingdom, it referred to fashion models themselves, the meaning as a dummy dating from the start of World War II. Shop mannequins are derived from forms used by fashion houses for dress making. The use of mannequins originated in the 15th century, when miniature milliners mannequins were used to demonstrate fashions for customers, full-scale, wickerwork mannequins came into use in the mid-18th century. Wirework mannequins were manufactured in Paris from 1835, the first fashion mannequins, made of papier-mâché, were made in France in the mid-19th century. Mannequins were later made of wax to produce a more lifelike appearance, in the 1920s, wax was supplanted by a more durable composite made with plaster. Modern day mannequins are made from a variety of materials, the ones being fiberglass. The fiberglass mannequins are usually more expensive than the ones, tend to be not as durable. Mannequins are used primarily by retail stores as in-store displays or window decoration, however, many online sellers also use them to display their products for their product photos. Historically, artists have often used articulated mannequins as an aid in drawing draped figures, the advantage of this is that clothing or drapery arranged on a mannequin may be kept immobile for far longer than would be possible by using a living model. Medical simulation mannequins, models or related artefacts such as SimMan and these are sometimes also referred to as virtual patients. The term manikin refers exclusively to these types of models, though mannequin is often also used, in first aid courses manikins may be used to demonstrate methods of giving first aid. Fire and coastguard services use mannequins to practice life-saving procedures, the mannequins have similar weight distribution to a human. Special obese mannequins and horse mannequins have also made for similar purposes. Mannequins were a frequent motif in the many early 20th-century artists, notably the Metaphysical painters Giorgio de Chirico, Alberto Savinio. Shop windows displaying mannequins were a frequent photographic subject for Eugene Atget, the Twilight Zone episode The After Hours involves mannequins taking turns living in the real world as people. Mannequins are a theme in horror fiction
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Sawdust
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Sawdust or wood dust is a by-product of cutting, grinding, drilling, sanding, or otherwise pulverizing wood or any other material with a saw or other tool, it is composed of fine particles of wood. It is also the byproduct of certain animals, birds and insects live in wood. It can present a hazard in manufacturing industries, especially in terms of its flammability, sawdust is the main component of particleboard. A major use of sawdust is for particleboard, coarse sawdust may be used for wood pulp, sawdust has a variety of other practical uses, including serving as a mulch, as an alternative to clay cat litter, or as a fuel. Until the advent of refrigeration, it was used in icehouses to keep ice frozen during the summer. It has been used in displays, and as scatter in miniature railroad. It is also used to soak up liquid spills, allowing the spill to be easily collected or swept aside. As such, it was common on barroom floors. It is used to make Cutlers resin, mixed with water and frozen, it forms pykrete, a slow-melting, much stronger form of ice. Sawdust is used in the manufacture of charcoal briquettes, the claim for invention of the first commercial charcoal briquettes goes to Henry Ford who created them from the wood scraps and sawdust produced by his automobile factory. Cellulose, fibre starch that is indigestible to humans, and a filler in some low calorie foods, can be and is made from sawdust, sawdust-derived cellulose has also been used as a filler in bread. Airborne sawdust and sawdust accumulations present a number of health and safety hazards, wood dust becomes a potential health problem when, for example, the wood particles, from processes such as sanding, become airborne and are inhaled. Wood dust is a human carcinogen. Certain woods and their dust contain toxins that can produce allergic reactions. Water-borne bacteria digest organic material in leachate, but use up much of the available oxygen and this high biological oxygen demand can suffocate fish and other organisms. People can be exposed to wood dust in the workplace by breathing it in, skin contact, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration has set the legal limit for wood dust exposure in the workplace as 15 mg/m3 total exposure and 5 mg/m3 respiratory exposure over an 8-hour workday. The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health has set a recommended limit of 1 mg/m3 over an 8-hour workday. Sawdust is flammable and accumulations provide a source of fuel
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The Plain (West Point)
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The Plain is the parade field at the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York. The flat terrain of the Plain is in contrast to the varied, the Plain rises approximately 150 feet above the Hudson River and has been the site of the longest continually occupied US Army garrison in America since 1778. In its early years, the academy was located on the Plain and it was used for varying activities ranging from drill. Currently, the Plain refers to just the field where cadets perform ceremonial parades. The Plain in the days of the academy comprised approximately 40 acres of relatively flat ground rising approximately 150 feet above the Hudson River. It was not always the level and manicured parade ground that is seen today, before the development of the modern academy, the term The Plain referred to the relatively flat geographic area that the current academy occupies. It included the area where Fort Clinton was constructed, the term now specifically applies to the parade field. The Connecticut militia that first occupied West Point on 27 January 1778 encamped there during that harsh winter. That summer, construction began on Fort Arnold, later to be renamed Fort Clinton, the land was owned by a private citizen, a Mr. Stephen Moore of North Carolina. Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton authorized the purchase of the land for $11,085 in 1790. In the early days of the academy, the Plain was used for purposes beyond its current use for ceremonial parades. From its earliest days until just after World War I, the Corps of Cadets spent their summers encamped on the Plain as part of their tactical field training. Semi-permanent tents were erected, hard-floor planking, and furniture and books were moved out to the campsite as the Cadets moved out of the barracks for the summer, Cadets practiced military drill and cavalry maneuvers on the Plains open areas. However, after the superintendency of Douglas MacArthur from 1919 to 1922, before the construction of Michie Stadium, the Army football team played their home games upon the Plain. For the first 100 years of the academy, there was a depression on the northern edge of the plain near trophy point. This area was known locally as Execution Hollow as reportedly military executions occurred there during the Revolutionary War period, the hollow remained until 1912, when it was filled in with soil excavated from the construction of Bartlett Hall. The area now is a grassy field between the Superintendents review stands, Clinton Field, and Battle Monument on Trophy point. The field contains a small putting green used by the Department of Physical Education for golf instruction, the Plain in present-day is used primarily for ceremonial parades, known at the academy as reviews
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West Point, New York
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West Point is the oldest continuously occupied military post in the United States. West Point was established in 1775 by George Washington who considered it the most important strategic position in America, until January 1778, West Point was not occupied by the military. It comprises approximately 16,000 acres including the campus of the United States Military Academy at West Point and it is a Census Designated Place located in the Town of Highlands in Orange County, New York, located on the western bank of the Hudson River. The population was 6,763 at the 2010 census and it is part of the New York–Newark–Jersey City, NY–NJ–PA Metropolitan Statistical Area as well as the larger New York–Newark, NY–NJ–CT–PA Combined Statistical Area. West Point, was a site during the Revolutionary War. Originally picked because of the abnormal S-curve in the Hudson at this point, it was founded by military engineer and it was manned by a small garrison of Continental soldiers through the entirety of the war. A great iron chain was laid across the Hudson at this point in order to impede British Navy vessels, the site comprised multiple redoubts, including Fort Putnam, which is still preserved in a Revolutionary-period design. However, Arnolds plot failed when British Major John André was captured as a spy by the Americans, arnold received a decreased cash reward of £6,000 but was commissioned as a Brigadier General in the British Army. The United States Military Academy was established at West Point in 1802 and has the longest continuous service of any United States military installation and is the nations oldest service academy. In 1937, the West Point Bullion Depository was constructed, in 1988, it became the West Point Mint, West Point is located at 41° 23′ N 73°58 W. According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has an area of 25.1 square miles,24.3 sq mi land and 0.7 sq mi water. West Point and the village of Highland Falls, New York, are on the west bank of the Hudson River. West Point lies in the transition between the continental and humid subtropical zones, although lying closer to the former, with four distinct seasons. Summers are hot and humid, while winters are cold with moderate snowfall. The monthly daily average ranges from 27.5 °F in January to 74.1 °F in July, on average, temperatures reaching 90 °F or 0 °F occur on 17 and 1.4 days of the year. Extremes in temperature range from 106 °F on July 22,1926 down to −17 °F on February 9,1934, as of the census of 2010 there were 6,763 people, and 685 households residing in the CDP. The population density was 293.4 per square mile, there were 1,044 housing units at an average density of 42. 9/sq mi. The racial makeup of the CDP was 82. 31% White,9. 09% African American,0. 50% Native American,3. 35% Asian,0. 15% Pacific Islander,1. 64% from other races, and 2. 96% from two or more races
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Bobby Dodd Stadium
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Bobby Dodd Stadium at Historic Grant Field is the football stadium located at the corner of North Avenue at Techwood Drive on the campus of the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. It has been home to the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team, often referred to as the Ramblin Wreck, in form since 1905. The team participates in the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision as a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference and it is the oldest stadium in the FBS and has been the site of more home wins than any other FBS stadium. The stadium is located on the east side of the Georgia Tech campus, across from freshman housing facilities and just a walk from the campus library. The facility is located in Midtown Atlanta, just off Interstate 75/85, the stadiums atmosphere is unique in its setting, with a picturesque view of the downtown and Midtown Atlanta skylines looming overhead during games. Grant Field is the oldest continuously used site for college football in the Southern United States. Football has been played at the current site since 1905, in 1913, permanent grandstands were built for the first time, mostly by Tech students. It was originally named for Hugh Inman Grant, son of John W. Grant, from 1913 to 1919, the stadium grew from a capacity of 7,000 to one of 25,000. In 1988, the stadium was renamed in honor of Bobby Dodd, the playing surface is still named Grant Field. The stadium bears little, if any, resemblance to its original form, the original facility, roughly corresponding to the lower level of the current stadiums west grandstands, seated 5,600. The terrain in the area slopes upward from north to south, due to that natural grade, much of the field itself is below street level. The houses observable in the background of photos were replaced by dormitory buildings in the 1930s. By 1925, the east and south stands were completed, making the stadium a 30, the west stands were rebuilt and a large press box was added in 1947, bringing capacity up to 44,000. In 1985 the South stands were razed to make room for the William C, Wardlaw Center, a modern field house and athletic office facility to replace the facilities in the old Heisman Gym, which was located just to the north of the stadium. The current, modern west grandstand covers the old concrete one, the high interstitial space is currently used for storage. The lighting was replaced in 1998, following the 2001 season, a major expansion and renovation project was started, which was done in two phases in order to play the 2002 season in the stadium. For the 2002 season, seating was returned to the South end in front of the Wardlaw Center, after the 2002 season, the expansion was completed by adding a massive free standing upper deck in the north end zone. This addition of an end zone upper deck brought Bobby Dodd Stadium to its current capacity
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Atlanta, Georgia
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Atlanta is the capital of and the most populous city in the U. S. state of Georgia, with an estimated 2015 population of 463,878. Atlanta is the cultural and economic center of the Atlanta metropolitan area, home to 5,710,795 people, Atlanta is the county seat of Fulton County, and a small portion of the city extends eastward into DeKalb County. In 1837, Atlanta was founded at the intersection of two lines, and the city rose from the ashes of the American Civil War to become a national center of commerce. Atlantas economy is considered diverse, with dominant sectors that include logistics, professional and business services, media operations, Atlanta has topographic features that include rolling hills and dense tree coverage. Revitalization of Atlantas neighborhoods, initially spurred by the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, has intensified in the 21st century, altering the demographics, politics. Prior to the arrival of European settlers in north Georgia, Creek Indians inhabited the area, standing Peachtree, a Creek village located where Peachtree Creek flows into the Chattahoochee River, was the closest Indian settlement to what is now Atlanta. As part of the removal of Native Americans from northern Georgia from 1802 to 1825, the Creek ceded the area in 1821. In 1836, the Georgia General Assembly voted to build the Western, the initial route was to run southward from Chattanooga to a terminus east of the Chattahoochee River, which would then be linked to Savannah. After engineers surveyed various possible locations for the terminus, the zero milepost was driven into the ground in what is now Five Points. A year later, the area around the milepost had developed into a settlement, first known as Terminus, and later as Thrasherville after a merchant who built homes. By 1842, the town had six buildings and 30 residents and was renamed Marthasville to honor the Governors daughter, later, J. Edgar Thomson, Chief Engineer of the Georgia Railroad, suggested the town be renamed Atlantica-Pacifica, which was shortened to Atlanta. The residents approved, and the town was incorporated as Atlanta on December 29,1847, by 1860, Atlantas population had grown to 9,554. During the American Civil War, the nexus of multiple railroads in Atlanta made the city a hub for the distribution of military supplies, in 1864, the Union Army moved southward following the capture of Chattanooga and began its invasion of north Georgia. On the next day, Mayor James Calhoun surrendered Atlanta to the Union Army, on November 11,1864, Sherman prepared for the Union Armys March to the Sea by ordering Atlanta to be burned to the ground, sparing only the citys churches and hospitals. After the Civil War ended in 1865, Atlanta was gradually rebuilt, due to the citys superior rail transportation network, the state capital was moved from Milledgeville to Atlanta in 1868. In the 1880 Census, Atlanta surpassed Savannah as Georgias largest city, by 1885, the founding of the Georgia School of Technology and the citys black colleges had established Atlanta as a center for higher education. In 1895, Atlanta hosted the Cotton States and International Exposition, during the first decades of the 20th century, Atlanta experienced a period of unprecedented growth. In three decades time, Atlantas population tripled as the city expanded to include nearby streetcar suburbs
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Gainesville, Florida
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Gainesville is the county seat and largest city in Alachua County, Florida, United States, and the principal city of the Gainesville, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population of Gainesville in the 2013 US Census estimates was 127,488, Gainesville is the largest city in the region of North Central Florida. It is also a component of the Gainesville-Lake City Combined Statistical Area, Gainesville is home to the University of Florida, the nations ninth-largest university campus by enrollment, as well as to Santa Fe College. The Gainesville MSA was ranked as the No.1 place to live in North America in the 2007 edition of Cities Ranked and Rated, also in 2007, Gainesville was ranked as one of the best places to live and play in the United States by National Geographic Adventure. About 12,000 years ago Paleo-Indians lived in Florida, although it is not known for certain whether any permanent settlements from that period were in the present city limits of Gainesville, archaeological evidence of human presence exists. Eventually more complex social organization and agricultural practices emerged into what archaeologists classify as the Deptford culture, a Deptford culture campsite has been excavated beneath the subsequent Alachua culture Law School Burial Mound on the grounds of the University of Florida. The UF campus burial mound was built about 1000 A. D. by Alachua culture inhabitants who lived along the shore of Lake Alice. In the recorded period, the region was home to the Potano, the remaining Timucua were converted to Roman Catholicism and organized into missions overseen by Franciscan priests. The Mission San Francisco de Potano, the first doctrina in Florida west of the St. Johns River, was founded in 1606 at the edge of present-day San Felasco Hammock Preserve State Park. Chief Potanos town was relocated in the period to the vicinity of the Devils Millhopper. Spanish colonists began cattle ranching in the Paynes Prairie area using Timucua labor, between 1763 and 1784 what is now Gainesville fell within the jurisdiction of the colony of British East Florida. Gainesville was founded to place the Alachua County seat on the route of the Florida Railroad Companys line stretching from Cedar Key to Fernandina Beach. County residents decided to move the county seat from Newnansville in 1853, a site on Black Oak Ridge where the railroad was expected to cross it was selected in 1854. It is generally accepted that the new settlement was named for General Edmund P. Gaines, the railroad was completed from Fernandina to Gainesville in 1859, passing six blocks south of the courthouse. Hogtown is the village of the adjacent Hogtown Creek, which flows 5.7 miles through Gainesville. Hogtown continued to exist until after Gainesville was founded, as evidenced on a map showing both towns, which was published in 1864 based on surveys from 1855, two residents of Hogtown played a prominent role in establishing Gainesville. William Lewis, who owned a plantation in Hogtown, delivered 20 votes pledged to him to create a new town on the route of the railroad. Tillman Ingram, who owned a plantation and a sawmill in Hogtown
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Tampa, Florida
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Tampa is a major city in, and the county seat of, Hillsborough County, Florida. It is located on the west coast of Florida on Tampa Bay, near the Gulf of Mexico, the city had a population of 346,037 in 2011. The current location of Tampa was once inhabited by peoples of the Safety Harbor culture. The area was explored by Spanish explorers in the 16th century, resulting in violent conflicts and the introduction of European diseases, which wiped out the original native cultures. In 1824, the United States Army established a frontier outpost called Fort Brooke at the mouth of the Hillsborough River, near the site of todays Tampa Convention Center. The first civilian residents were pioneers who settled near the fort for protection from the nearby Seminole population, today, Tampa is part of the metropolitan area most commonly referred to as the Tampa Bay Area. For U. S. Census purposes, Tampa is part of the Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, the Greater Tampa Bay area has over 4 million residents and generally includes the Tampa and Sarasota metro areas. The Tampa Bay Partnership and U. S. Census data showed an annual growth of 2.47 percent. A2012 estimate shows the Tampa Bay area population to have 4,310,524 people, Tampa was ranked as the 5th best outdoor city by Forbes in 2008. Tampa also ranks as the fifth most popular American city, based on where people want to live, a 2004 survey by the NYU newspaper Washington Square News ranked Tampa as a top city for twenty-somethings. Tampa is ranked as a Gamma+ world city by Loughborough University, ranked alongside other world cities such as Phoenix, Charlotte, Rotterdam, and Santo Domingo. The word Tampa may mean sticks of fire in the language of the Calusa and this might be a reference to the many lightning strikes that the area receives during the summer months. Other historians claim the name means the place to gather sticks, toponymist George R. Stewart writes that the name was the result of a miscommunication between the Spanish and the Indians, the Indian word being itimpi, meaning simply near it. The name first appears in the Memoir of Hernando de Escalante Fontaneda and he calls it Tanpa and describes it as an important Calusa town. While Tanpa may be the basis for the modern name Tampa, archaeologist Jerald Milanich places the Calusa village of Tanpa at the mouth of Charlotte Harbor, the original Bay of Tanpa. A later Spanish expedition did not notice Charlotte Harbor while sailing north along the west coast of Florida, the name was accidentally transferred north. Map makers were using the term Bay or Bahia Tampa as early as 1695, people from Tampa are known as Tampans or Tampanians. Latin Americans from Tampa are known as tampeños, or tampeñas for females and these terms of Spanish origin emerged after 1900 for the immigrant communities in West Tampa and Ybor City
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Stetson Hatters football
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The team competes in the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision and are members of the Pioneer Football League. Stetsons first football team was fielded in 1901, but the school dropped the sport in 1956, the team plays its home games at the 6,000 seat Spec Martin Stadium in DeLand, Florida. The Hatters are coached by Roger Hughes, a 7-game series between intramural teams from Stetson and Forbes occurred in 1894, the first football games in the state of Florida. The first intercollegiate game between official varsity teams was played on November 22,1901, Stetson beat Florida Agricultural College at Lake City, one of the four forerunners of the University of Florida, 6-0, in a game played as part of the Jacksonville Fair. A sure score by FAC was obstructed by a tree stump, Stetson claims state titles in 1901,1903,1905,1906,1907, and 1909. The Hatters participated in one game, the 1952 Tangerine Bowl. They won 35–20 over Arkansas State, after a 57-year hiatus, on August 31,2013, Stetson revived their football program against Warner University at Spec Martin Stadium. The Hatters held a lead of 10-3 with 12,35 remaining in the 2nd quarter when the game was suspended due to lightning, after more than a two-hour delay, the game was officially postponed until the next day. On September 1,2013, the game resumed, and Stetson won 31-3 and it was Stetsons first win since defeating the University of Havana 64-0 at the end of the 1956 season. On September 7,2013, the Hatters played the Florida Tech Panthers in Palm Bay, for the second week in a row, Donald Payne was named Defensive Player of the Week for the Pioneer Football League. After a week off, Stetson hosted Birmingham-Southern on September 21,2013 in front of a crowd of 6104. They were unable to pull off win and were defeated by a score of 49-34, on September 28,2013, the San Diego Toreros were hosted by Stetson and the Hatters lost 59-0 before a crowd of 5,874 at Spec Martin Memorial Stadium. On October 5,2013, the Hatters went to Indianapolis, four turnovers and two safeties on offense slammed the door on Stetson and they lost their fourth straight game 35-15. On October 12,2013, Stetson hosted the Flyers from the University of Dayton, in the beginning of the second quarter, the Hatters were already behind 35 points. They would go on to their fifth loss in a row by a score of 49-20. On October 26,2013 Stetson traveled to Poughkeepsie, New York to play the Marist Red Foxes, Stetson could only muster eight first downs during the entire game. The Hatters were blanked 27-0 and have a losing streak. Four of the losses have been by 20 points or more, on November 2,2013, the Hatters hosted the Campbell Fighting Camels at Spec Martin Memorial Stadium in on and off rain
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