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Associated Press
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The Associated Press is an American multinational nonprofit news agency headquartered in New York City that operates as a cooperative, unincorporated association. The AP is owned by its contributing newspapers and radio and television stations in the United States, all of which stories to the AP. Most of the AP staff are members and are represented by the Newspaper Guild, which operates under the Communications Workers of America. As of 2007, news collected by the AP was published and republished by more than 1,700 newspapers, in addition to more than 5,000 television, the photograph library of the AP consists of over 10 million images. The AP operates 243 news bureaus in 120 countries and it also operates the AP Radio Network, which provides newscasts twice hourly for broadcast and satellite radio and television stations. Many newspapers and broadcasters outside the United States are AP subscribers, as part of their cooperative agreement with the AP, most member news organizations grant automatic permission for the AP to distribute their local news reports. The AP employs the inverted pyramid formula for writing that enables the news outlets to edit a story to fit its available publication area without losing the storys essentials. Cutbacks at rival United Press International in 1993 left the AP as the United States primary news service, although UPI still produces and distributes stories and photos daily. Other English-language news services, such as the BBC, Reuters, some historians believe that the Tribune joined at this time, documents show it was a member in 1849. The New York Times became a member shortly after its founding in September 1851, initially known as the New York Associated Press, the organization faced competition from the Western Associated Press, which criticized its monopolistic news gathering and price setting practices. The revelations led to the demise of the NYAP and in December 1892, when the AP was founded, news became a salable commodity. The invention of the press allowed the New York Tribune in the 1870s to print 18,000 papers per hour. During the Civil War and Spanish–American War, there was a new incentive to print vivid, Melville Stone, who had founded the Chicago Daily News in 1875, served as AP General Manager from 1893 to 1921. He embraced the standards of accuracy, impartiality, and integrity, the cooperative grew rapidly under the leadership of Kent Cooper, who built up bureau staff in South America, Europe and, the Middle East. He introduced the telegraph typewriter or teletypewriter into newsrooms in 1914, in 1935, AP launched the Wirephoto network, which allowed transmission of news photographs over leased private telephone lines on the day they were taken. This gave AP a major advantage over other media outlets. While the first network was only between New York, Chicago, and San Francisco, eventually AP had its network across the whole United States, in 1945, the Supreme Court of the United States held in Associated Press v. The decision facilitated the growth of its main rival United Press International, AP entered the broadcast field in 1941 when it began distributing news to radio stations, it created its own radio network in 1974
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American football
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The offense must advance at least ten yards in four downs, or plays, or else they turn over the football to the opposing team, if they succeed, they are given a new set of four downs. Points are primarily scored by advancing the ball into the teams end zone for a touchdown or kicking the ball through the opponents goalposts for a field goal. The team with the most points at the end of a game wins, American football evolved in the United States, originating from the sports of association football and rugby football. The first game of American football was played on November 6,1869, during the latter half of the 1870s, colleges playing association football switched to the Rugby Union code, which allowed carrying the ball. American football as a whole is the most popular sport in the United States, Professional football and college football are the most popular forms of the game, with the other major levels being high school and youth football. As of 2012, nearly 1.1 million high school athletes and 70,000 college athletes play the sport in the United States annually, almost all of them men, in the United States, American football is referred to as football. The term football was established in the rulebook for the 1876 college football season. The terms gridiron or American football are favored in English-speaking countries where other codes of football are popular, such as the United Kingdom, Ireland, New Zealand, American football evolved from the sports of association football and rugby football. What is considered to be the first American football game was played on November 6,1869 between Rutgers and Princeton, two college teams, the game was played between two teams of 25 players each and used a round ball that could not be picked up or carried. It could, however, be kicked or batted with the feet, hands, head or sides, Rutgers won the game 6 goals to 4. Collegiate play continued for years in which matches were played using the rules of the host school. Representatives of Yale, Columbia, Princeton and Rutgers met on October 19,1873 to create a set of rules for all schools to adhere to. Teams were set at 20 players each, and fields of 400 by 250 feet were specified, Harvard abstained from the conference, as they favored a rugby-style game that allowed running with the ball. An 1875 Harvard-Yale game played under rugby-style rules was observed by two impressed Princeton athletes and these players introduced the sport to Princeton, a feat the Professional Football Researchers Association compared to selling refrigerators to Eskimos. Princeton, Harvard, Yale and Columbia then agreed to play using a form of rugby union rules with a modified scoring system. These schools formed the Intercollegiate Football Association, although Yale did not join until 1879, the introduction of the snap resulted in unexpected consequences. Prior to the snap, the strategy had been to punt if a scrum resulted in bad field position, however, a group of Princeton players realized that, as the snap was uncontested, they now could hold the ball indefinitely to prevent their opponent from scoring. In 1881, both teams in a game between Yale-Princeton used this strategy to maintain their undefeated records, each team held the ball, gaining no ground, for an entire half, resulting in a 0-0 tie
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College Football All-Southern Team
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The College Football All-Southern Team was an all-star team of college football players from the Southern United States. The honor was given annually to the best players at their respective positions and it is analogous to the All-America Team and was most often selected in newspapers. Notable pickers of All-Southern teams include John Heisman, Dan McGugin, Grantland Rice, W. A. Lambeth, Reynolds Tichenor, Nash Buckingham, Innis Brown, virginias 115–0 drubbing by Princeton in 1890 signaled footballs arrival in the south. For example, North Carolina was in both the SIAA and SAIAA at different points in its history, and Virginia Tech had one year in the SIAA. Clemson, today in the ACC, was in the SIAA, the SIAA was the oldest of these, founded in the winter of 1894 by Vanderbilt chemistry professor William Lofland Dudley. This organization really represents the south, as its scope is wider. V. P. I. can scarcely be figured in the calculation as that institution hasnt played any of the S. I. A. A. representatives. South Atlantic writers of course were not fond of this, and would sometimes critique the latest All-Southern selection with titles such as Virginia, in 1922 teams from the SIAA and SAIAA left for the Southern Conference and All-Southern teams become effectively All-Southern Conference teams. By 1933 the contemporary Southeastern Conference was established, Walter Camps annual official All-America first team had been historically loaded with college players from Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Penn, and other Northeastern colleges. Many selectors picked only Eastern players, in 1894, Michigan defeated Cornell and lobbied for its center Fatty Smith to be the first Western All-American. Notably the University of Michigan claims for their center Fatty Smith the supremacy in his position, but the western institutions have not yet mastered the eastern knowledge of all the details and fine points of the game. Smith has made a record against the west and even against Cornell. When brought to face a man like the Stillman of today or the Bulliet of last year, Smith would simply be lost, so it would be with all of the claimants for line positions from western teams. And no one claims for a moment that western back field men could play in the class with eastern men. The selectors were typically Eastern writers and former players who attended games in the East. The article noted, Eastern sporting editors must be devoid of all sense of humor, what man in the lot that have picked All-American elevens this fall, saw a single game outside the North Atlantic States. With a conceit all their own they fail to recognize that the United States reaches more than 200 miles in any direction from New York, suppose an Ohio football writer picked All-American teams. Ohio readers would not stand for it, but apparently the eastern readers will swallow anything
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1928 Georgia Tech Golden Tornado football team
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The 1928 Georgia Tech Golden Tornado football team represented the Georgia Institute of Technology during the 1928 Southern Conference football season. The team, which was a member of the Southern Conference, was coached by William Alexander in his year as head coach. Alexander compiled a record of 10–0 and outscored his opponents 213 to 40, Georgia Tech played its home games at Grant Field. Both USC and Georgia Tech claimed national championships for 1928, under the Dickinson System, USC was recognized as number 1, but the Rose Bowl was contested between the number 2 and 3 teams, California and Georgia Tech. The game was decided by a safety, which was scored after Cals Roy Wrong Way Riegels ran 65 yards in the wrong direction, several Georgia Tech players received postseason honors. Captain and center Peter Pund was a consensus All-American, Coach Knute Rockne said of Techs 13–0 defeat of Notre Dame, I sat at Grant Field and saw a magnificent Notre Dame team suddenly recoil before the furious pounding of one man–Peter Pund. Tackle Frank Speer was also selected as a first-team All-American by the Associated Press, after the defeat of the Georgia Bulldogs 1927 Dream and Wonder team, Georgia Tech returned all but one of its key players. Alabama coach Wallace Wade said Georgia Tech, Georgia, and Vanderbilt had the best chances of winning a southern title, Georgia Tech head coach William Alexander held daily scrimmages. The Golden Tornado was led by center and senior captain Peter Pund, who was never penalized, halfback Warner Mizell headed a powerful backfield that also included Stumpy Thomason and Father Lumpkin. Georgia Tech opened the season on October 6 with a 13–0 defeat of the VMI Keydets, Tech gained 307 yards and VMI159. The Georgia Tech line tore the V. M. I. line to shreds, Georgia Techs starting lineup was Holland, Thrash, Westbrook, Pund, Drennon, Speer, Waddey, Durant, Mizell, Thomason, and Randolph. In the second week of play, Georgia Tech scored twice on passes to beat the Tulane Green Wave 12–0. The first one came in the quarter, Warner Mizell threw a 25-yard pass to Tom Jones. The second came in the quarter on a pass from Dunlap to Stumpy Thomason. Georgia Tech started the half of the game with a fierce drive down to the 1-yard line when Randolph fumbled the ball away. Georgia Tech next defeated coach Knute Rocknes Notre Dame Fighting Irish 13–0, Father Lumpkin intercepted two Irish passes, setting up the winning score by running the second interception down to the 3-yard line. After the game, coach Rockne said, I sat at Grant Field, I counted 20 scoring plays that this man ruined. Rockne later also wrote of an attack on his coaching in the Atlanta Journal, I am surprised that a paper of such fine, the article by Fuzzy Woodruff was not called for
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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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Dale Van Sickel
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Dale Harris Van Sickel was an American college football, basketball and baseball player during the 1920s, who later became a Hollywood motion picture actor and stunt performer for over forty years. Van Sickel played college football for the University of Florida, and was recognized as the first-ever first-team All-American in the history of the Florida Gators football program. Dale Van Sickel was born in Eatonton, Georgia, on November 29,1907 to William Milton Van Sickel and Ella McGaen and his father William owned a photography studio in Gainesville. The family came to Georgia originally from Guernsey County, Ohio, Van Sickel attended Gainesville High School, where he played high school football for the Gainesville Purple Hurricanes. Dales older brother Talmadge had also been a player for Gainesville High. He is generally regarded as the best high school football player produced in the state of Florida before the 1930s, Van Sickel attended the University of Florida in Gainesville. He played right end for the Florida Gators football team for three seasons from 1927 to 1929, on the side of the line from left end Dutch Stanley. During his three years as a member of the Gators varsity, the team won twenty-three of twenty-nine games, the Gators sole 1928 loss was to Tennessee in Knoxville, Tennessee—by a single point, 12–13. Van Sickel was injured during his football season in 1929. He was also a first-team All-Southern selection in both 1928 and 1929, Van Sickel was also the team captain and a varsity letterman for the Florida Gators basketball and Gators baseball teams. He was later inducted into the University of Florida Athletic Hall of Fame as a Gator Great, the sportswriters of The Gainesville Sun selected him as the No.11 all-time Gator player among the top 100 from the first century of Florida football in 2006. After his two-year coaching career, Van Sickel moved to Hollywood to begin a career as a movie stuntman, over the next thirty-eight years, Van Sickel appeared as an extra and occasional leading man in over 280 films and television episodes, and performed on-screen stunts in another 140. In addition to appearing in numerous B movies, he was a stunt man and on-screen extra in such Hollywood classics as The Searchers, North by Northwest and he was a founding member and the first president of the Stuntmens Association of Motion Pictures. Van Sickel died in 1977 in Newport Beach, California as a result of injuries received while filming a car stunt in 1975. Van Sickel was survived by his wife Iris and their daughter, an Oral History of Floridas Pursuit of Gridiron Glory, Legends Publishing, LLC, St. Petersburg, Florida. Hairston, Jack, Tales from the Gator Swamp, A Collection of the Greatest Gator Stories Ever Told, Sports Publishing, LLC, Champaign, Illinois. Johnson, Bob, Interviewee Dennis Keith Dutch Stanley, University of Florida Oral History Project, George A. Smathers Libraries, Digital Collections, Gainesville, Florida. McCarthy, Kevin M. Fightin Gators, A History of University of Florida Football, Arcadia Publishing, Mount Pleasant, mcEwen, Tom, The Gators, A Story of Florida Football, The Strode Publishers, Huntsville, Alabama
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Bill Banker
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Willis Burton Bill Banker was an American college football player and one-time vice president of Pinnacle Oil Co. Banker was a prominent halfback for the Tulane Green Wave football team of Tulane University from 1927 to 1929 and he was known as the Blonde Blizzard due to his blonde hair and playing without a helmet. During the 1929 game with Georgia Tech, Banker wore a helmet onto the field because coach Bernie Bierman threatened to yank him out of the game. But the helmet slipped over his eyes as the Yellow Jackets were preparing to kickoff, so Banker tossed it to the sideline, and was never taken out, calling Biermans bluff. He was featured as part of the All-American football team in the 1930 Warner Bros. feature movie Maybe Its Love starring 20-year-old Joan Bennett, Banker was a charter member of the Tulane Athletics Hall of Fame. He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1977, Banker died of a heart attack on September 25,1985. Bill Blond Blizzard Banker at the College Football Hall of Fame
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College Football Hall of Fame
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The College Football Hall of Fame is a hall of fame and museum devoted to college football. The National Football Foundation launched the Hall in 1951 to immortalize the players, from 1995 to 2012, the Hall was located in South Bend, Indiana. It was connected to a center and situated in the citys renovated downtown district,2 miles south of the University of Notre Dame campus. In August 2014, the College Football Hall of Fame and Chick-fil-A Fan Experience opened in downtown Atlanta, rutgers donated land near its football stadium, office space, and administrative support. In response, the Foundation moved its operations to New York City, when the New York Attorney Generals office began its own investigation, the foundation moved to Kings Mills, Ohio, where a building finally was constructed adjacent to Kings Island in 1978. The Hall opened with good attendance figures early on, but visitation dwindled dramatically as time went on, nearby Galbreath Field remained open as the home of Moeller High School football until 2003. A new building was opened in South Bend, Indiana on August 25,1995. Despite estimates that the South Bend location would more than 150,000 visitors a year, the Hall of Fame drew about 115,000 people the first year. In 2009, the National Football Foundation decided to move the College Football Hall of Fame to Atlanta, the possibility of moving the museum has been brought up in other cities, including Dallas, which had the financial backing of billionaire T. Boone Pickens. However, the National Football Foundation ultimately decided on Atlanta for the next site, the new $68.5 million museum opened on August 23,2014. It is located next to Centennial Olympic Park, which is near other attractions such as the Georgia Aquarium, the World of Coca-Cola, CNN Center, and the National Center for Civil and Human Rights. The Hall of Fame is located near the Georgia Institute of Technology of the ACC, the new building broke ground on January 28,2013. Sections of the architecture are reminiscent of a football in shape, the facility is 94,256 square feet and contains approximately 50,000 square feet of exhibit and event space, interactive displays and a 45-yard indoor football field. Atlanta Hall Management operates the College Football Hall of Fame, as of 2017, there are 987 players and 214 coaches enshrined in the College Football Hall of Fame, representing 306 schools. The National Football Foundation outlines specific criteria that may be used for evaluating a candidate for induction into the Hall of Fame. A player must have received major first team All-America recognition, a player becomes eligible for consideration 10 years after his last year of intercollegiate football played. Football achievements are considered first, but the record as a citizen is also weighed. Players must have played their last year of football within the last 50 years
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Clyde Crabtree
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Clyde Crabtree, nicknamed Cannonball Crabtree, was an American college and professional football player who was a halfback and quarterback in the National Football League for a single season in 1930. Crabtree played college football for the University of Florida, and thereafter, he played professionally for the Frankford Yellow Jackets, Crabtree was born in Altoona, Iowa in 1905. He attended J. Sterling Morton High School in Cicero, Illinois, Crabtree first attended Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, but dropped out after deciding that he did not like the social atmosphere of Northwestern. He was an athlete, and had the ambidextrous ability to punt or dropkick the ball off either foot while on the run. As a collegian, Crabtree was a key contributor for three Gators squads in 1927,1928 and 1929 which finished 7–3, 8–1 and 8–2. By the second week, in less than three quarters of play, Crabtree had directed 8 touchdowns, in that game, Buddy Hackman intercepted a lateral from Crabtree to Brumbaugh, who was in the clear had it been executed correctly. Crabtrees final football game saw a major victory over the Oregon Webfoots in Miami. He returned a punt 80 yards for a score, Crabtree was also a star forward for the Florida Gators basketball team in 1928 and 1929, and was later inducted into the University of Florida Athletic Hall of Fame as a Gator Great in 1976. As part of a series written for The Gainesville Sun in 2006. Crabtree played professional football for a season in 1930, playing for the now-defunct Frankford Yellow Jackets. He played in fifteen games, started in seven of them, Crabtree returned to the University of Florida after his NFL career was over, and graduated with a bachelors degree in education in 1934. He also earned a degree in education in 1951. Crabtree served as a school sports coach in several of the high schools of Palm Beach County and Dade County, Florida. He died of complications from diabetes in 1994, he was 88 years old, douchant, Mike, Encyclopedia of College Basketball, Gale Research, New York, New York. An Oral History of Floridas Pursuit of Gridiron Glory, Legends Publishing, LLC, St. Petersburg, hairston, Jack, Tales from the Gator Swamp, A Collection of the Greatest Gator Stories Ever Told, Sports Publishing, LLC, Champaign, Illinois. McCarthy, Kevin M. Fightin Gators, A History of University of Florida Football, Arcadia Publishing, Mount Pleasant, mcEwen, Tom, The Gators, A Story of Florida Football, The Strode Publishers, Huntsville, Alabama. The Gainesville Sun Presents The Greatest Moments in Florida Gators Football, Sports Publishing, Inc
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Peter Pund
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Henry Rudolph Peter Pund was an American college football player. He was elected to the Georgia Tech Hall of Fame in 1958, the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame in 1977, at Georgia Tech, he was a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity. A native of Augusta, Pund was captain of the national champion 1928 Golden Tornado, I sat at Grant Field and saw a magnificent Notre Dame team suddenly recoil before the furious pounding of one man–Pund, center, said legendary coach Knute Rockne. I counted 20 scoring plays that this man ruined, after the 1929 Rose Bowl, Pund called Wrong way Roy Riegels the best center I have played against all year. Hes a battler, and he never quit, Pund died September 17,1987, in Darien, Connecticut. He is interred at Magnolia Cemetery in Atlanta, Georgia, Peter Peter The Great Pund at the College Football Hall of Fame
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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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Knute Rockne
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Knute Kenneth Rockne was a Norwegian-American football player and coach at the University of Notre Dame. Rockne is regarded as one of the greatest coaches in football history. His biography at the College Football Hall of Fame identifies him as without question, Rockne helped to popularize the forward pass and made the Notre Dame Fighting Irish a major factor in college football. Knute Rockne was born Knut Larsen Rokne in Voss, Norway, to smith and wagonmaker Lars Knutson Rokne and his wife and he emigrated with his parents at five years old to Chicago. He grew up in the Logan Square area of Chicago, on the northwest side of the city, Rockne learned to play football in his neighborhood and later played end in a local group called the Logan Square Tigers. He attended North West Division High School in Chicago, playing football, after Rockne graduated from high school, he took a job as a mail dispatcher with the Post Office in Chicago for four years. When he was 22, he had saved money to continue his education. He headed to Notre Dame in Indiana to finish his schooling, Rockne excelled as a football end there, winning All-American honors in 1913. Rockne helped to transform the game in a single contest. On November 1,1913, the Notre Dame squad stunned the highly regarded Army team 35–13 in a game played at West Point. This game was not the invention of the pass. He was educated as a chemist at Notre Dame, and graduated in 1914 with a degree in pharmacy, in 1914, he was recruited by Peggy Parratt to play for the Akron Indians. There Parratt had Rockne playing both end and halfback and teamed with him on several successful forward pass plays during their title drive, Knute wound up in Massillon, Ohio, in 1915 along with former Notre Dame teammate Dorais to play with the professional Massillon Tigers. Rockne and Dorais brought the pass to professional football from 1915 to 1917 when they led the Tigers to the championship in 1915. Pro Football in the Days of Rockne by Emil Klosinski maintains the worst loss suffered by Rockne was in 1917. He coached the South Bend Jolly Fellows Club when they lost 40–0 to the Toledo Maroons, during 13 years as head coach, Rockne led his Fighting Irish to 105 victories,12 losses, five ties and three national championships, including five undefeated seasons without a tie. Rockne posted the highest all-time winning percentage for a college football coach. His schemes utilized include the eponymous Notre Dame Box offense and the 7–2–2 defense, the backfield lined up in a T-formation, then quickly shifted into a box to the left or right just as the ball was snapped
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Curley Byrd
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Harry Clifton Curley Byrd was an American university administrator, educator, athlete, coach, segregationist, and politician. Byrd began an association with the University of Maryland as an undergraduate in 1905. In the interim, he had served as the universitys athletic director. Byrd amassed a 119–82–15 record in football from 1911 to 1934, Byrd Stadium, the universitys current football field, and its predecessor were both named in his honor. Byrd resigned as university president in order to enter politics in 1954 and he ran an unsuccessful campaign as the Democratic candidate for Maryland Governor against Theodore McKeldin. Byrd later received appointments to state offices with responsibilities in the Potomac River, in the 1960s, he made unsuccessful bids for seats in each chamber of the United States Congress. Byrd was a proponent of a separate but equal status of racial segregation in his roles as both university administrator and political candidate, in 2015, the student government association agreed to a resolution in support of changing the name of Byrd Stadium because of Byrds segregationist history. On September 28,2015, University of Maryland President Wallace Loh appointed task force to develop viewpoints, the University President then made a recommendation to the University System of Maryland Board of Regents—the governing body of Maryland state universities— to change the name to Maryland Stadium. The ultimate decision on any name change rests with the Board of Regents, on December 11,2015, the Board of Regents voted 12-5 to remove the Byrd from the stadiums name, renaming it Maryland Stadium for the time being. Harry Clifton Byrd was born on February 12,1889, in Crisfield and he was one of six children of oysterman and county commissioner William Franklin Byrd and his wife Sallie May Byrd. In his youth, Byrd worked in the Chesapeake Bay fishing industry and he attended Crisfield High School, where he excelled on the baseball diamond, and was also known as his hometowns first recreational jogger. A later source described how he appeared in 1905, He was tall and he had a startlingly handsome face, with big, flashing eyes, a splotch of florid red on each cheek, and a mane of black curly hair. He looked like Rupert of Hentzau, and had all of that worthys cold, in 1905, Byrd graduated from Crisfield High School and enrolled at the Maryland Agricultural College, which is now known as the University of Maryland. Byrd was a college athlete and participated in varsity football, baseball. He served as the team captain in 1907, as the pitcher on the baseball team. Before leaving Crisfield, Byrds father warned him not to try to play that thing called football and he ignored the advice and reported for football practice where head coach Fred K. Nielsen told the undersized Byrd to play with the kids and that footballs a mans game. He was allowed, however, to fill in as an end on the team due to a shortage of players. After sitting out the first three games, Nielsen sent Byrd in as a substitute against Navy, and his play was enough to earn a position on the first team
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Frank Speer
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Frank R. Speer was a college football player and wrestler. Speer was an All-American tackle for the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets of the Georgia Institute of Technology and he first made the All-Southern team as a sophomore in 1927. One writer in 1930 said Vance Maree and Frank Speer had the reputation as the toughest pair of tackles in the south, Speer is a member of the Georgia Tech Athletics Hall of Fame. Speer once lost in a match with Bronko Nagurski due to a kneeing foul. In another wrestling match, he caused former World Heavyweight Champion Jack Dempsey, on June 1,1938, Speer became ill but still participated in a wrestling match with Dorv Roche at Atlantas Warren Arena. Following the match, he developed a fever and was taken to a hospital and he is interred at Atlantas Hollywood Cemetery
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Cousin
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A cousin is a relative with whom a person shares one or more common ancestors. In the general sense, cousins are two or more away from any common ancestor, thus distinguishing a cousin from an ancestor, descendant, sibling, aunt, uncle, niece. However, in common parlance, cousins typically refers to first cousins as the children of ones uncles, systems of degrees and removals are used in the English-speaking world to describe the exact relationship between two cousins and the ancestor they have in common. The ordinals in the terms first cousins, second cousins, third cousins, the number of G words used to describe this ancestor will determine how close the relationship is. For example, having great-great-grandparents in common would be third cousins, when the cousins are not the same generation, they are described as removed. In this case, the number of generations to the common ancestor is used to determine the degree. Note that the ages of the cousins are irrelevant to the definition of the cousin relationship, the following is a list of less common cousin terms. A cousin chart, or table of consanguinity, is helpful in identifying the degree of relationship between two people using their most recent common ancestor as the reference point. Cousinship between two people can be described in degrees and removals by determining how close, generationally. Another visual chart used in determining the relationship between two people who share a common ancestor is based upon a rhombus shape, usually referred to as a canon law relationship chart. The chart is used by placing the common progenitor in the top space in the diamond-shaped chart, then follow the line down the outside edge of the chart for each of the two people until their respective relationship to the common ancestor is reached. Upon determining that place along the opposing outside edge for each person, the information contained in the common intersection defines the relationship. Then, following the spaces inward, they would intersect in the brother diamond
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Gaynell Tinsley
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Gaynell Charles Gus Tinsley was an American football end and coach. He played professionally for the Chicago Cardinals of the National Football League from 1937 to 1938 and he attended Louisiana State University, where he was a consensus All-American for the LSU Tigers football team in 1935 and 1936. In 1937 he was drafted by the Cardinals, with whom he was an All-NFL selection in 1937 and 1938, during his three years in the NFL, Tinsley set or tied NFL single-season records with 674 receiving yards in 1937 and 41 pass receptions in 1938. He later served as the football coach at LSU from 1948 to 1954. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1956, Tinsley was born in Ruple, Louisiana and raised in Homer, Louisiana in the northern part of the state. He attended Louisiana State University where he played football and baseball and was selected as the captain of both teams and he was considered one of the greatest receivers in college football, earning consensus All-American honors in both 1935 and 1936. At the time, at age 19 he was one of the youngest ever named to the All-America team, Tinsleys coach at LSU, Bernie Moore, once said, Tinsley could have made All-American at any position. He was so tough, he made blockers quit, hes the greatest lineman I ever saw. Tinsley concluded his career by playing in the Chicago College All-Star Game. Tinsley scored the points of the game on a 47-yard touchdown pass from Sammy Baugh, as the college players defeated the Green Bay Packers. This was the first victory for the players against the professionals in the series. In 1993, LSU selected its all-time team as part of the celebration of the centennial of LSU football, Tinsley was the only unanimous choice for LSUs Early Years Team of the Century. The star end led the Tigers to their first two SEC titles and played in two Sugar Bowls and he earned All-SEC and All-American honors in 1935–36 for his ability to dominate a game on both sides of the ball. In 1936, he was second in balloting for national MVP honors. … At 6-3,215 pounds, Tinsley was considered to the end of his era because of his mobility. Tinsley was drafted by the Chicago Cardinals as the 12th overall pick in the 1937 NFL Draft and he played for the Cardinals for three years, in 1937,1938 and 1940. As a rookie in 1937, Tinsley set an NFL record with 675 receiving yards, at the end of the 1937 season, Tinsley was selected as a first-team All-NFL player by the United Press, the NFL, New York Daily News, and Collyers Eye magazine. Tinsley twice set the record for the longest pass reception in NFL history and he set the mark first in 1937, when he caught a 97-yard pass from Pat Coffee for a touchdown against the Chicago Bears
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History of the Chicago Cardinals
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The professional American football team now known as the Arizona Cardinals previously played in Chicago, Illinois. This article chronicles the history during their time as the Chicago Cardinals from 1920 to 1959. In 1898, Chicago painting and building contractor Chris OBrien established an amateur Chicago-based athletic club football team named the Morgan Athletic Club, OBrien later moved them to Chicagos Normal Park and renamed them the Racine Normals, since Normal Park was located on Racine Avenue in Chicago. In 1901, OBrien bought used maroon uniforms from the University of Chicago and it was then that the team changed its name to the Racine Cardinals. The original Racine Cardinals team disbanded in 1906 mostly for lack of local competition, a professional team under the same name formed in 1913, claiming the previous team as part of their history. As was the case for most professional teams in 1918, the team was forced to suspend operations for a second time due to World War I. They resumed operations later in the year, and have operated continuously. At the time of the founding of the modern National Football League, in 1920, the team became a charter member of the American Professional Football Association, for a franchise fee of $100. The person keeping the minutes of the first league meeting, unfamiliar with the nuances of Chicago football, recorded the Cardinals as from Racine, the team was renamed the Chicago Cardinals in 1922 after a team actually from Racine, Wisconsin entered the league. That season the team moved to Comiskey Park, the Staleys and Cardinals played each other twice in 1920 as the Racine Cardinals and the Decatur Staleys, making their rivalry the oldest in the NFL. They split the series, with the team winning in each. In the Cardinals 7-6 victory over the Staleys in their first meeting of the season, each scored a TD on a fumble recovery. The Cardinals defeat of the Staleys proved critical, since George Halass Staleys went on to a 10-1-2 record overall, 5-1-2 in league play. The Akron Pros were the first ever champions, they finished with an 8-0-3 record, 6-0-3 in league play. Since the Pros merely had to tie the game in order to win the title, had the Staleys not lost to the Cardinals, they would have gone into that fateful game with an 11-0-1 record, 6-0-1 in league play. As it was, it all but assured that the Staleys/Bears, in 1922, the Staleys, now renamed the Bears, went 9-3-0, losing to the Cardinals twice. The Bears still edged the Cardinals for 2nd place in the league, in 1923 and 1924, the Bears got the better of the Cardinals all three times the two teams played. But in 1925, the Bears went 0-1-1 against the Cardinals with the tie meaning the Cardinals were only a ½ game in front of the Pottsville Maroons heading into their fateful 1925 showdown
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Dennis K. Stanley
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Dennis Keith Stanley, Sr. nicknamed Dutch Stanley, was an American education professor, university administrator and intercollegiate sports coach. Stanley was a native of England, but graduated high school in Florida. Dennis Stanley was born in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England on Easter Sunday 1906, the Stanley family emigrated to Canada when he was a child, first to Winnipeg, Manitoba, then to Fort William, Ontario. When he was 12 years old, the moved to Umatilla and then Ocala. He attended Hillsborough High School in Tampa, Florida, where he was an all-state end and his mother died when he was 17, but he worked nights at The Tampa Tribune office, and managed to graduate from high school in 1924. Stanley attended the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida from 1924 to 1929 and he was a standout end for the Gators, and played on the opposite side of the line from All-American end Dale Van Sickel. Stanley was also a javelin and discus thrower on the Gators track, after graduating from the university with his bachelors degree in 1929, Stanley earned a masters degree in physical education at Pennsylvania State College in State College, Pennsylvania. Stanley taught and coached in Daytona Beach and Jacksonville, Florida public high schools for two years returning to the University of Florida. In 1931, Van Sickel left for Hollywood and Stanley returned as an instructor, Stanley supplemented his income during the Great Depression by laying bricks. After a downturn in the records of Bachmans teams in 1931 and 1932, Bachman resigned and Stanley became the Gators new head coach at the age of 26. Stanley led an all-Florida-alumni coaching staff from 1933 to 1935, the Gators would not have another winning football season until 1952. As measured by his winning percentage, Stanley remains the winningest tennis coach in Gators history, Stanley was a part of Wades successful Blue Devils football teams in 1940 and 1941, including the squad that played in the 1942 Rose Bowl. Wades coaching staff also included Herschel Caldwell and Ellis Hagler, when World War II broke up Wades tenure, Stanley continued to serve as an assistant under Eddie Cameron. The 1944 team beat Alabama in the Sugar Bowl, in 1946, a member of the Florida Board of Control requested that Stanley prepare a plan for the University of Floridas athletic program and a new college of physical education. During the mid-1950s, Stanley developed a court version of tennis for older players which received national attention. After announcing his resignation as dean in January 1969, he continued to teach in the college until he retired in 1976. The college founded the D. K. Stanley Lecture series in 1986, to recognize Stanleys many contributions to the professions of physical education, Stanley was also a well-known author in his field, his publications included the standard textbook Physical Education Activities Handbook for Men and Women. He was a member of Florida Blue Key and was recognized as a Distinguished Letter Winner in the University of Florida Athletic Hall of Fame, showing his lifelong love of football, Stanley served as the NCAA representative on the Gator Bowl organizing committee for twenty-eight years
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Vance Maree
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George LaVance Vance Dutch Maree was an American football and basketball player for the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets of the Georgia Institute of Technology. Vance Maree was born on December 20,1909 in Savannah, Georgia to Andrew Morgan Maree and he was a prominent tackle on William Alexanders football teams. Maree is a member of the Georgia Tech Athletics Hall of Fame, Maree was a member of the 1928 team which was national champion. Maree blocked the punt in the 1929 Rose Bowl which led to an 8 to 7 Tech victory over Cal after Roy Riegels ran 65 yards in the wrong direction. One writer in 1930 said Vance Maree and Frank Speer had the reputation as the toughest pair of tackles in the south and he was selected as a third-team All-American by the International News Service in 1930
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Bull Brown
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John Neil Bull Brown was an American football and baseball player for the Vanderbilt Commodores of Vanderbilt University. He was said by coach Dan McGugin to be one of his six best players ever coached and he was selected All-Southern in 1928 and 1929, and All-American in 1929. One of his best games came tackling Minnesota running back Bronko Nagurski and he ran 85 yards for a touchdown on 1928 national champion Georgia Tech
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Jimmy Steele (American football)
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James Henry Steele, Jr. nicknamed Jimmy Steele, was an American college football player and coach for the Florida Gators football team of the University of Florida. A native of Tampa, Florida, he attended Hillsborough High School in Tampa, after high school, Steele enrolled in the University of Florida in 1927, where he played for coach Charlie Bachmans Florida Gators football team from 1928 to 1930. After the 1928 season, Steele was selected by the Newspaper Enterprise Association as a second-team All-American, the guard position was very competitive in the south in 1928. One writer notes Had not Vanderbilt possessed its Brown, Alabama its Hagler and Georgia Tech its Drennon and that same month, the Gators football team selected Leroy Red Bethea as captain of the 1930 team and Steele as the alternate captain. Following his 1930 senior season, United Press named him to its All-Southern first team, after graduating from Florida in 1931, Steele returned to his alma mater as line coach. Steele also played football for the Tampa All-Stars. An Oral History of Floridas Pursuit of Gridiron Glory, Legends Publishing, LLC, St. Petersburg, hairston, Jack, Tales from the Gator Swamp, A Collection of the Greatest Gator Stories Ever Told, Sports Publishing, LLC, Champaign, Illinois. McCarthy, Kevin M. Fightin Gators, A History of University of Florida Football, Arcadia Publishing, Mount Pleasant, mcEwen, Tom, The Gators, A Story of Florida Football, The Strode Publishers, Huntsville, Alabama. The Gainesville Sun Presents The Greatest Moments in Florida Gators Football, Sports Publishing, Inc
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North Carolina Tar Heels football
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The North Carolina Tar Heels football team represents the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the sport of American football. The Tar Heels have played in the Football Bowl Subdivision of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, being the oldest public university and oldest collegiate team in the Carolinas, the school is nicknamed Carolina in athletics. The programs title in football is Carolina Football, North Carolina has played in 31 bowl games in its history and won three Southern Conference championships and five Atlantic Coast Conference titles. Thirty Tar Heel players have been honored as first-team All-Americas on 38 occasions, Carolina had 32 All-Southern Conference selections when it played in that league until 1952 and since joining the ACC in 1953, has had 174 first-team All-ACC choices. Since joining the Atlantic Coast Conference in 1953, the team has won five conference championships, one very important contribution to the game of football by Carolina is the modern use of the forward pass, they were the first college team to use the play in 1895. It was conceived to break a deadlock and give UNC a 6–0 win. The Tar Heels were in a situation and a Georgia rush seemed destined to block the ball. The punter, with a dash to his right, tossed the ball and it was caught by George Stephens. The University of North Carolina fielded its first football team in 1888, Hector Cowan was Carolinas first head football coach. The Tar Heels played four games with a record of 1–3. The team captains for the 1888 season were Bob Bingham and Steve Bragaw, the game against Wake Forest was the first in the state, and the first against Trinity the first scientific game in the state. Ergo, one or the other is the first intercollegiate game in North Carolina, princeton star Hector Cowan traveled south and trained the team. In 1889, UNC played two games with a record of 1–1. The University would not field another team until 1891. The team captains for the 1889 season were Lacy Little and Steve Bragaw, William A. Reynolds coached the Tar Heels for four seasons. In 1897, Carolina played ten games with a record of 7–3. The team captain for the 1897 season was Arthur Belden, in 1898, the Tar Heels played nine games with a final record of 9–0. The team captain for the 1898 season was Frank O. Rogers, the team claimed a Southern championship
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O. K. Pressley
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Orin Kirkpatrick Pressley was a college football player and coach as well as a lieutenant colonel in the Marine Corps. Orin Kirkpatrick Pressley was born on June 24,1907 to Thomas Jefferson Pressley and Cornelia Kirkpatrick in Lowrys, Pressley was a prominent center for the Clemson Tigers of Clemson College from 1926 to 1928. Pressley was inducted into the Clemson Athletic Hall of Fame in 1978, Pressley was the schools first All-American, when he received third-team honors from Walter Trumbull, John Heisman, and the Newspaper Enterprise Association. Pressley once commented on the uniforms in the 1920s, We wore patches on patches and we often tossed those leather skullcap-type helmets to the sidelines sand played without. One player shunned any pads or protective equipment because it slowed him down, Clemson wore orange jerseys for the first time in 1928, and Pressley starred in the rivalry game with South Carolina, recording four tackles for a loss in a row despite a hand injury. “A better center than Captain O. K. Pressley of Clemson is hard to find, on October 1,1930, The Tiger published the following account, Phila. - September 30 - Lt. O. K. Pressley, former Clemson College gridder, is one of the All-Marine team located here, the team is composed of selected players from the entire Marine Corps, and is considered one of the best service elevens in the country. This is Pressleys first year in the Marines, after his military retirement, he taught school in North Carolina and at Chester Junior High School
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Jimmy Armistead
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James Cate Jimmy Armistead was a college football player. James Cate Armistead was born on August 29,1905 in Nashville, Tennessee to Wirt Mayo Armistead, Armistead attended Hume-Fogg High School in Nashville, Tennessee. The first game played at Dudley Field was between the home-standing Commodores and the powerful Michigan Wolverines, a goal-line stand by the Commodores preserved a 0-0 tie. The following Friday, nearby Hume-Fogg High School played a game at Dudley, senior Jimmie Armistead returned the opening kick for a touchdown, providing the first touchdown ever recorded in the stadium. Armistead was a prominent running back for the Vanderbilt Commodores of Vanderbilt University from 1926 to 1928 and he was also bald, called by one writer the bald eagle of Vanderbilt. He started slow, Nature neglected to endow him with pugnacity, as a sophomore, he was so timid on attack that he was as easy to snuff out as a candle. He was always shy, and took no joy in seeing his opponent fail, in 1926, Vanderbilt lost its only game to national champion Alabama. Armistead once caught a pass in the game and was tackled just a few yards short of the goal without fighting for extra yardage, from there Vanderbilt failed to score, and so some Vanderbilt fans blamed Armistead for the loss. He took the criticism of 1926 to heart and emerged a new player in 1927, Armistead led the nation in scoring in 1927 with 138 points, a year in which he was a target of quarterback Bill Spears. When Spears graduated, Armistead was the option, i. e. he now had to pass and kick. Armistead starred in the 14 to 7 victory over Kentucky and he made the second-team of the composite All-Southern eleven behind Florida quarterback Clyde Crabtree. List of NCAA major college football yearly scoring leaders
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Gene McEver
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Gene McEver was an American football player and coach. He played college football at the University of Tennessee, where he was an All-American halfback, McEver served as the head football coach at Davidson College from 1936 to 1943 and at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1944, compiling a career record of 22–54–5. He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame as a player in 1954, McEver attended high school in Bristol, Virginia. He was the first ever All-American for the Tennessee Volunteers football team and he played for the Volunteers in 1928,1929, and 1931 under Robert Neyland, missing the 1930 season with a knee injury. McEver scored 130 points for the Vols in 1929, helping them to a 9–0–1 record, the total led the NCAA in scoring that season, and his mark still stands at the single season scoring record at Tennessee. In December 2008, Sports Illustrated undertook to identify the individuals who would have awarded the Heisman Trophy in college footballs early years. McEver was selected as the would-be Heisman winner for the 1929 season, McEver also holds the record for career scoring at Tennessee among non-kickers. McEver finished his career at Tennessee with 44 touchdowns and 12 points after touchdown for 276 points and he was named to the All-Southern team in 1928,1929, and 1931, joining teammates Bobby Dodd and Herman Hickman. He stood 510, weighed 185 pounds, and wore number 28, McEver coached at Davidson College in North Carolina from 1937 through 1943. McEver also coached the University of North Carolina to a 1–7–1 record in 1944 and he was an assistant coach at Virginia Tech from 1945 to 1947. List of NCAA major college football yearly scoring leaders Gene McEver at the College Football Data Warehouse
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Frank Peake
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Frank W. Peake was a college football running back for the Virginia Tech Hokies of Virginia Polytechnic Institute. Peakes College Football Hall of Fame coach Andy Gustafson, said he never saw his equal as a punt returner, Peake was inducted into the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame in 1978, and the Virginia Tech Sports Hall of Fame in 1983. He was also a track star. Frank Peake was born on May 15,1903 in Virginia to John James Peake and he was joined by Scotty MacArthur, Herbert “Mac” McEver and Tommy Tomko. Peake was a back who loved the open field. He scored three touchdowns in his first varsity game against Roanoke College and two more in the game against Hampden-Sydney. When the Techmen played VMI in the finale, he scored both touchdowns in Tech’s 14-7 victory. One account claims he rolled up 675 yards on Virginia, in the 6 to 0 upset of the Colgate Red Raiders in New York, Peake ran for nearly 200 yards and scored the games only points. During one three-game stretch, he accumulated rushing and return yardage of 306,314 and 353 yards and he was credited with gaining 1,761 yards in eight games. 930 were from scrimmage, and 831 on punts and kickoffs, Frank Peake was selected All-Southern in 1928. In the game against Virginia he came off the sideline with a hip to return a punt for a touchdown
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Gee Walker
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Gerald Holmes Gee Walker was a major league baseball outfielder. During his fifteen-year career he played with the Detroit Tigers, Chicago White Sox, Washington Senators, Cleveland Indians and Cincinnati Reds. He played in 1,784 major league games over 15 seasons with a batting average of.294,1,991 hits,223 stolen bases and 124 home runs. Born in Gulfport, Mississippi, Walker attended the University of Mississippi and was a member of the Class of 1930 and he played both football and baseball at Ole Miss, and is in both the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame and the Ole Miss Sports Hall of Fame. As a major leaguer he was known for stealing bases, finishing nine times among the top ten for the season and he played for the Tigers in two World Series,1934 and 1935. Gee — a fiery competitor and a clown — became a favorite in Detroit and his antics earned him the moniker The Madman from Mississippi. He hit.300 or better in five of his first seven seasons, though regularly among the league leaders in stolen bases, he could also be inattentive and overzealous on the basepaths. He once tried to steal a base during an intentional walk, in the 1934 World Series, he was picked off first while arguing with the Cardinal bench. Earlier that year, on June 30, he was picked off twice in the same inning. After Hank Greenberg singled, Walker reached on an error but was caught off base when the catcher threw to first, Greenberg tried to draw a throw by running to third base and was thrown out, with Walker taking second base. Moments later, with Walker standing six feet off the bag, Detroit manager Mickey Cochrane was so angered by Walkers inattention that he suspended Walker for 10 days and fined him $20. In 1936, Walker hit.353 — the highest batting average of his career and he also hit 55 doubles — 2nd only to his teammate Charlie Gehringer. In 1937, Walker began the season on fire, on Opening Day, he hit for the cycle — the only player to accomplish that feat on Opening Day. He did it in reverse order – starting with a run, followed by triple, then a double. He continued his hot hitting with a 27-game streak in April and May and he ended 1937 with career-high 18 HR,113 RBIs and.335 average. Despite Walkers strong performance that year, the Tigers traded him after the season and they sent two of their most popular players, Walker and Marv Owen, to the White Sox for Vern Kennedy, Tony Piet and Dixie Walker. The trade caused an uproar with Tiger fans, and owner Walter Briggs was forced to issue an announcement from his Miami home that the deal was made with my approval, Walker continued to hit well for several years afterward, but was traded four more times. In December 1939, he was traded to the Washington Senators for Pete Appleton, in December 1940, he was traded to the Boston Red Sox for Doc Cramer and then sent to the Cleveland Indians
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Red Bethea
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Lee Roy Red Bethea, sometimes referenced as Leroy Bethea, was an American football player. He played at the position at the University of Florida. His single-game rushing record stood until 1987 and he was also selected as a second-team halfback on the 1930 College Football All-America Team. During the 1929 season, Bethea was considered Floridas most consistent ball carrier, high praise for the conference with Gene McEver. The Miami Daily News wrote that Bethea had speed, rhythm and power in his movement and he helped lead the 1929 Gators to an 8–2 record and gained 79 yards on 17 attempts in the Dixie All-Star game held in Atlanta on New Years Day in 1930. The following year, Bethea was team captain of the 1930 Gators squad that compiled a 6–3–1 record, the high point of Betheas career was Floridas 19–0 victory on October 18,1930, over a University of Chicago team coached by Amos Alonzo Stagg. The victory was historic for the Florida football program, representing the first time the Gators had won a game outside the South. The Gators had previously lost all six games it had played in the North—to Indiana in 1916, Harvard in 1922 and 1929, Army in 1923 and 1924, Bethea was the star of the historic victory over Chicago, rushing for a Florida single-game record of 218 yards. The Associated Press called Bethea Floridas siege gun, and noted that his total was better than the whole Chicago backfield. At the end of the 1930 season, the Central Press Association selected Bethea as a second-team All-American based on votes cast by 200 captains of college football teams polled in a nationwide survey, in the early 1930s, Bethea coached football at the Florida Military Academy. He left that position in August 1933 to attend to his business interests in Gainesville, Bethea lived in Hastings, Florida, in his later years. He was inducted into the University of Florida Athletic Hall of Fame as a Gator Great in April 1986 and he died five months later in September 1986. In September 1987, one year after Betheas death, Emmitt Smith rushed for 224 yards in his first collegiate start,1930 College Football All-America Team Florida Gators football, 1930–39 List of Florida Gators football All-Americans
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