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Oregon State Beavers football
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The Oregon State Beavers football team represents Oregon State University in NCAA Division I FBS college football. The team first fielded a football team in 1893 and is a member of the Pac-12 Conference. Gary Andersen is the coach since the 2015 season. Their home games are played at Reser Stadium in Corvallis, Oregon, Football at Oregon State University started in 1893 shortly after athletics were initially authorized at the college. Athletics were banned prior May 1892, but when the school president, Benjamin Arnold, died. Blosss son William started the first team, on which he served as coach and quarterback. The teams first game was an easy 63–0 defeat over the home team, the university has been in several athletic conferences. These include the Northwest Intercollegiate Association, the Pacific Coast Conference, prior to 1902, and in-between the Pacific Coast Conference and Pac-12 Conference, OSU played as an independent school. The Beavers play their games at Reser Stadium in Corvallis. It was originally called Parker Stadium when it was constructed in 1953, Parker Stadium was renamed Reser Stadium in June 1999. Major renovations from 2005–2007 increased the capacity to 45,674. Oregon State Universitys primary rival is the University of Oregon, the two schools enjoy a fierce and long-standing rivalry due to the proximity of the two campuses. The University of Oregon is in Eugene, Oregon, about 40 miles south of Corvallis, the teams first matched up on the gridiron in 1894 and have been playing each other almost every year since. The rivalry game between the two schools is called the Civil War and is traditionally the last game of each season and they have played each other 120 times which makes it the seventh-oldest college football rivalry game. Oregon State has won the Pac-12 Championship 5 times,1941,1956,1957,1964, the Beavers have also played in the Mirage Bowl, but this was a regular season game and a bowl in name only, not a post-season invitational bowl game. The 17 bowl game total does not include an invitation to play in the Gotham Bowl in 1960, the Beavers are 11–6 in bowl game appearances. Gary Andersen – Head Coach Kevin McGiven – Offensive Coordinator/Quarterbacks Coach Kevin Clune – Defensive Coordinator/Inside Linebackers T. J. Won the French football championship in 2011. Wayne Valley, Founder and principal owner of the Oakland Raiders & former President of the American Football League William Vanderbundt, NFL Linebacker, SF 49ers N. O
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Pineapple Bowl
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The Pineapple Bowl is a now-defunct college football bowl game played in Honolulu, Hawaii at Honolulu Stadium. Played on New Years Day except in 1939 and 1950, the Pineapple Bowl succeeded the Poi Bowl, the inaugural game was played in 1939 and the last game was played in 1952. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the game was suspended for five years. The game featured the Hawaii Rainbows and a team from the mainland. The rise of the Hula Bowl shortly followed the demise of the Pineapple Bowl, the University of Hawaii attempted to revive the bowl game in 1980, but the NCAA Special Events Committee turned down their request. However, the Aloha Bowl was created in 1982, the University of Hawaii went 3–6 in the Pineapple Bowl. Poi Bowl Aloha Bowl Oahu Bowl Hawaii Bowl List of college bowl games
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Hawaii Rainbow Warriors football
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The Hawaii Rainbow Warriors football team represents the University of Hawaii at Manoa in NCAA Division I FBS college football. On November 27,2015, Nick Rolovich was hired as the new football coach at the University of Hawaii replacing Norm Chow. It was part of the Western Athletic Conference until July 2012, the Hawaiʻi Warriors were the third team from a non automatic qualifier conference to play in a BCS bowl game. They played Georgia in the Sugar Bowl on January 1,2008 in New Orleans,1909 - The College of Hawaii Fighting Deans played and won its game against McKinley High School by a score of 95–5 at Punahou School. 1920 - The College of Hawaii becomes the University of Hawaiʻi,1922 - Hawaiʻi defeats its first collegiate opponent, beating Pomona 25–6 on Christmas Day. 1923 - A rainbow appears over Moiliili Field after Hawaiʻi upsets Oregon State, local reporters begin calling UH athletic teams the Rainbows. 1924–25 - The Rainbows, under the guidance of coach Otto Klum, the Rainbows outscore their opponents 606–29 in 18 games. Among the schools defeated during this time are Colorado, Colorado State and these Rainbow teams become known as the Wonder Teams due to their outstanding play. 1926 - The Rainbows play their first game at their newly constructed home field, the Rainbows fall to the Town Team by a score of 14–7 in front of 12,000 fans on Armistice Day. 1935 - Rainbow running back and future coach Thomas Kaulukukui becomes Hawaiʻis first All-American player, Kaulukukui starred on Hawaiʻis 1934 undefeated team and set a school record in 1935 with a 103-yard kick return touchdown during a 19–6 loss to UCLA in Los Angeles. Kaulukukuis number 32 is later retired by the University and remains the number to be retired in Hawaiiʻin football history. 1942 - Following the Attack on Pearl Harbor and the United States entry into World War II, Hawaiʻi cancels the 1942,1943,1944,1946 - Hawaiʻi resumes football play after a four-year hiatus as a member of the NCAA. Hawaiʻi enters as a College Division Independent, the Rainbows continue to play local teams on occasion but the bulk of their schedules are made up of collegiate teams. 1955 - A year after suffering a 50–0 blowout loss to Nebraska in Honolulu, the win is considered one of the schools all-time biggest upsets. 1961 - The UH Board of Athletic Control votes to abolish the program due to a lack of finances. Legendary coach Clark Shaughnessy takes over for one season but the Rainbows flounder through a 1-8-1 season,1966 - Phil Sarboe, after 15 seasons as head coach at Humboldt State, guides the team to a 4–6 record playing its first all-collegiate schedule. He resigns for personal reasons after the season,1967 - Don King, an assistant under Sarboe, becomes head coach and the much-improved Rainbows post a 6–4 record. Significantly, large flock to Honolulu Stadium to watch the Rainbows for the first time in many years
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Pacific Coast Conference
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The Pacific Coast Conference was a college athletic conference in the United States which existed from 1915 to 1959. The name Pacific Coast Conference is now used by a San Diego area community college established in 1982. Established on December 2,1915, its four members were the University of California, the University of Washington, the University of Oregon. Among other complaints, he disdained the quality of education in the Oregon schools, pauley felt that University of California campuses deserved to play against colleges with comparably high academic standards. The PCC had a commissioner, an elaborate constitution, a formal code of conduct. Following the submission of his report, Atherton was promptly hired as commissioner in 1940, the conference was wracked by scandal in 1951. Charges were made and confirmed that University of Oregon football coach Jim Aiken had violated the code for financial aid. After Aiken was compelled to resign, Oregon urged the PCC to look at similar abuses by UCLA football coach Red Sanders, the conference spent five years attempting to reform itself. In 1956, the scandal became public, the scandal first broke in Washington, when in January 1956, several discontented players staged a mutiny against their coach, John Cherberg. After the coach was fired, the PCC followed up on charges of a slush fund, the PCC found evidence of the prohibited activities of the Greater Washington Advertising Fund run by Roscoe C. Torchy Torrance, and in May imposed sanctions, in March, allegations of prohibited payments made by two booster clubs associated with UCLA, the Bruin Bench and the Young Mens Club of Westwood, were published in Los Angeles newspapers. UCLA refused for ten weeks to allow PCC officials to proceed in their investigation and this same alumnus also blew the whistle on Cals phony work program for athletes known as the San Francisco Gridiron Club, with an extension in the Los Angeles area known as the South Seas Fund. The first major reaction came from the University of California system, for Sproul the PCC dispute was not just about athletics, at stake was the ideal of a unified University of California that enjoyed statewide support. This ideal collided with aspirations of UCLA alumni who believed that Sprouls vision would always favor the Berkeley campus at the expense of the younger UCLA campus. Oregon State College president August Leroy Strand wrote, The reasons for California and UCLA dropping out are as different as night, the significance of the whole affair was the union of Berkeley and UCLA. Admissions and scholarship had nothing to do with the withdrawals, the PCC was falling apart, leading to the decision to dissolve after the 1958-59 season. Soon after the PCC was dissolved, five of its nine members created the Athletic Association of Western Universities for the 1959 season, after initially being blocked from admission, three of the four remaining schools would eventually join, but members were not required to play other members. Tensions were high between UCLA and Stanford, as Stanford had voted for UCLAs expulsion from the PCC, Idaho was not involved in the scandals but had become noncompetitive in the PCC
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Lon Stiner
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Alonzo Lon Stiner was an American football player and coach. He served as the football coach at Oregon State University from 1933 to 1948. Stiner was born June 20,1903 at Hastings, Nebraska and he graduated from the University of Nebraska. He was captain of the team and gained All-America honors. After graduation he worked as a teacher at the University of Colorado for two years, Stiner moved to Oregon State in 1928, where he served as an instructor, track coach and assistant football coach before assuming the job of head football coach in 1933. During his tenure as head coach of Oregon State, Stiner compiled a 74–49–17 record, setting school records for wins. His best season came in 1939, when his team went 9–1–1, Stiner coached in one of the greatest upset ties in NCAA history. On October 21,1933, eleven Beaver Iron Men fought USC to a tie in what many consider to be the greatest game in Oregon State football history. The Trojans, defending national champions, brought an 80-man squad to Multnomah Stadium in Portland, Oregon. The Beavers did not make a substitution, playing only eleven men, Stiner was also the head coach of another famous game in Beaver football history. His 1941 team played in the 1942 Rose Bowl and this game produced two important firsts. It was OSUs first-ever trip to the famous New Years Day classic, the reason for the move out of Pasadena was due to the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941. The game was played at Duke Universitys Wallace Wade Stadium in Durham, North Carolina, Oregon State pulled off the upset and won, 20–16. Stiner, at 38, was the youngest head coach in Rose Bowl history, Stiner also played a key role in another famous first in football history. The pyramid play, used in blocking kicks, originated as a prank at practice, amazingly enough, the play was successful in blocking a kick. Stiner, upon noticing the success of the play, decided to attempt it in a game, the play consisted of hoisting the 65 center, Clyde Devine, onto the shoulders of 62 tackles Harry Fields and Ade Schwammel. At this height in the air, Devine could reach out, the first official use of the play was successfully executed against the University of Oregon in Multnomah Stadium in Portland. The Pyramid was banned by the NCAA rules committee within a year, despite going 5–4–3 and taking his team to the 1949 Pineapple Bowl after the 1948 season, Stiner was replaced as head coach by Kip Taylor in 1949
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Bell Field
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Bell Field, originally known as College Field, was an outdoor athletic stadium in the northwest United States, on the campus of Oregon State College in Corvallis, Oregon. It was the venue of Oregon State Beavers football prior to the opening of Parker Stadium in November 1953. Opened 107 years ago in 1910, Bell Field had a capacity of 21,000 at its peak and was named after J. R. N. Doc Bell, a supporter of the college and its athletic teams. With a conventional north-south orientation, its seating was mostly covered in a horseshoe configuration, opening to the north. After Parker Stadium opened, most of the seating was removed and it was located directly west of the baseball field and parallel to its first base line. The Dixon Recreation Center, opened in 1976, occupies the site, a natural grass field for football was first installed at Bell Field in 1937, the surface was previously a mixture of dirt and sawdust. In the early 1950s, Oregon State played most of its football games in Portland at Multnomah Stadium. The final varsity game at Bell Field was the game on campus in 1952. The Beavers sole win in the Pacific Coast Conference that season was in the Civil War game in Portland, the only game in 1953 in Corvallis was the opener for Parker Stadium on November 14, a 7–0 win over Washington State. A new all-weather track facility opened on the end of campus in 1974 and was named Wayne Valley Field in 1975. OSU dropped its program after the 1988 season for both men and women, and the facility was removed in the 1990s, now occupied by the softball stadium. The womens team was reintroduced in fall 2004 and the new Whyte Track, Oregon State University Libraries, Bell Field photos OSU Alumni Association, In memory of Bell Field
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1939 Stanford Indians football team
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The 1939 Stanford Indians football team represented Stanford University in National Collegiate Athletic Association intercollegiate competition during the 1939 season. Seventh-year head coach Claude Tiny Thornhill led the team to a 1–7–1 record and he was replaced by Clark Shaughnessy, who surprised critics by leading the following years team, largely made up of the same players, to the Rose Bowl. Shaughnessy noted that the players were not suited to the offense that Thornhill had employed. Before the season, the Stanford Board of Athletic Control retained Thornhill as head coach, the Indians finished last in the Pacific Coast Conference with a 0–6–1 record against league opponents. It was the first time in history that Stanford failed to win a single Pacific Coast Conference game in a season, contemporary sources called the 1939 squad the worst football team to represent Stanford University in the history of the program. Stanfords only victory came in the finale against Dartmouth at the Polo Grounds in New York City. At halftime, Stanford trailed 3–0, and Thornhill and his assistants, at a loss for words and he told the downtrodden players, You are by far and large the worst group of players who have ever worn the Stanford red. The insult motivated the team to score 14 unanswered points to take away their only win of the season. After the game, the United Press wrote, Stanford, the worst team the West Coast has produced in years, pulled the days gridiron surprise by walloping the strong Dartmouth eleven
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Oregon State University
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Oregon State University is a coeducational, public research university in the northwest United States, located in Corvallis, Oregon. The university offers more than 200 undergraduate degree programs along with numerous graduate and it is also the largest university in the state, with a total enrollment exceeding 28,000. More than 230,000 people have graduated from OSU since its founding. S, OSU is one of 73 land-grant universities in the United States. The school is also a sea-grant, space-grant, and sun-grant institution, OSU received $308.9 million in research grants and contracts for the 2015 fiscal year, which is more research funding than all other public universities in Oregon combined. The universitys roots date back to 1856, when it was established as the areas first community school for primary and preparatory education, throughout the universitys history, the name changed eleven times. Like other early established land-grant colleges and universities, the majority of changes occurred through the 1920s. Generally, name changes were made to align a school with the largest available federal grants in agriculture research. Corvallis area Freemasons played an important role in developing the early school, the school offered its first college-level curriculum in 1865, under the administration of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. On August 22,1868, official articles of incorporation were filed for Corvallis College, October 27,1868, is known as OSU Charter Day. The Oregon Legislative Assembly designated Corvallis College as the college of the state of Oregon. Acceptance of this grant required the college to comply with the requirements set forth in the First Morrill Act, the school was then authorized to grant the Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science and Master of Arts degrees. The first graduating class was in 1870, granting Bachelor of Arts degrees, the Oregon Unification Bill was passed in 1929 by the Legislative Assembly, which placed the school under the oversight of the newly formed Oregon State Board of Higher Education. A doctoral in education was first offered in the early 1930s and this year also saw the creation of the first summer session. The growing diversity in degree programs led to name change in 1937. The universitys current title, Oregon State University, was adopted on March 6,1961, in 2007, Scott Reed was named the Vice Provost for Outreach and Engagement as OSU Extension Service and OSU Ecampus were aligned under this new division. Ecampus delivers OSU degree programs and courses online and at a distance to students worldwide, Research has played a central role in the universitys overall operations for much of its history. Most of OSUs research continues at the Corvallis campus, but a number of endeavors are underway at various locations throughout the state. Current research facilities, beyond the campus, include the Seafood Laboratory in Astoria, CEOAS is now co-leading the largest ocean science project in U. S. history, the Ocean Observatories Initiative
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Stanford Stadium
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Stanford Stadium is an outdoor athletic stadium in Stanford, California, on the campus of Stanford University. It is the home of the Stanford Cardinal college football team as well as the site of the commencement exercises. It originally opened 96 years ago in 1921 as a football and track stadium and its original seating capacity was 60,000, which grew to 89,000 by 1927 as a nearly enclosed bowl. Immediately following the 2005 season, the stadium was demolished and rebuilt as a concrete structure. Stanford Stadium was built in five months and opened its gates on November 19,1921, the first game was against rival California, who defeated Stanford 42–7 in the Big Game. Seating capacity was originally 60,000, with a 66-row, in 1925,10,200 seats were added to the stadium, nearly enclosing the horseshoe while still keeping the overall height of the facility intact. In 192714 additional rows of seating were added, increasing the stadium to its capacity of 85,500. In 1935, Stanford Stadium set a record for single-game attendance, in January 1985, Super Bowl XIX was held in Stanford Stadium, with the Bay Areas own San Francisco 49ers defeating the Miami Dolphins, 38–16. Stanford Stadium is one of two venues to host a Super Bowl without previously serving as the stadium of a National Football League or American Football League team. As of now, Super Bowl XIX is the only Super Bowl where the host region saw its team win, the stadium hast hosted international soccer matches for the 1984 Summer Olympics, the 1994 FIFA World Cup, and the 1999 FIFA Womens World Cup. Also, the San José Earthquakes plays a match since 2011. After hosting the New York Red Bulls the first year, the visiting has been the Los Angeles Galaxy since 2012, the stadium has gone a number of significant renovations since the 1920s. In 1960, a box was added, while the first. In 1994, prior to the 1994 FIFA World Cup, the level of the press box was expanded. The crown of the surface was also reduced. In honor of his gift, Stanford named the playing surface the Louis W. Foster Family Field at Stanford Stadium, various justifications for the renovation included poor sightlines in the existing stadium, long stairways, and lack of adequate restroom facilities. The track around the stadium had previously created a distance between the field and the spectators. The capacity of the new stadium was set to be approximately 50,000 seats made by Ducharme Seating and this was partially the result of San Franciscos failure to secure a bid for the 2012 Olympics, which would have featured a renovated Stanford Stadium as the main Olympic Venue
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Stanford, California
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Stanford is a census-designated place in Santa Clara County, California, United States and is the home of Stanford University. The population was 13,809 at the 2010 census, with a population of 35,000. Stanford is an area of Santa Clara County and is adjacent to the city of Palo Alto. Stanford, California is a postal address, and has its own post office. A popular landmark is the Dish, Stanford is located at 37°25′21″N 122°9′55″W. According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has an area of 2.8 square miles. This region experiences warm and dry summers, with no average monthly temperatures above 71.6 °F, according to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Stanford has a warm-summer Mediterranean climate, abbreviated Csb on climate maps. The 2010 United States Census reported that Stanford had a population of 13,809, the population density was 4,974.5 people per square mile. The racial makeup of Stanford was 7,932 White,651 African American,86 Native American,3,777 Asian,28 Pacific Islander,263 from other races, hispanic or Latino of any race were 1,439 persons. The Census reported that 55. 6% of the lived in households and 44. 4% lived in non-institutionalized group quarters. There were 159 unmarried opposite-sex partnerships, and 15 same-sex married couples or partnerships,1,522 households were made up of individuals and 87 had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 1.96, there were 1,230 families, the average family size was 2.77. The median age was 22.6 years, for every 100 females there were 118.3 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 120.1 males, there were 3,999 housing units at an average density of 1,440.6 per square mile, of which 790 were owner-occupied, and 3,123 were occupied by renters. The homeowner vacancy rate was 0. 9%, the vacancy rate was 0. 9%. 2,022 people lived in owner-occupied housing units and 5,657 people lived in housing units. As of the census of 2000, there were 13,314 people,3,207 households, the population density was 4,849.8 people per square mile. There were 3,315 housing units at a density of 1,207. 4/sq mi
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Corvallis, Oregon
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Corvallis /kɔːrˈvælᵻs/ is a city in central western Oregon, United States. It is the county seat of Benton County and the city of the Corvallis, Oregon Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2010 United States Census, the population was 54,462 and its population was estimated by the Portland Research Center to be 55,298 in 2013. Corvallis is the location of Oregon State University, a large Hewlett-Packard research campus, at a longitude of 123°17 west, the city is the westernmost city in the contiguous 48 states with a population larger than 50,000. Avery arrived in Oregon from the east, averys primitive 1846 dwelling was the first home within the boundaries of todays Corvallis and his land claim included the southern section of the contemporary city. Avery was quickly joined by other settlers along the banks of the Willamette River, the discovery of gold in California in 1848 temporarily stalled development of a township, with Avery leaving his Oregon claim to try his hand at mining in the fall of that year. His stay would prove to be brief and in January 1849 Avery returned to Oregon with a stock of provisions with a view to opening a store. During the year 1849, Avery opened his store at the site, platted the land, and surveyed a town site on his land claim, naming the community Marysville. It is possible that the city was named after early settler Mary Lloyd, in the summer of 1851 Joseph Avery and William Dixon each granted back-to-back 40 acre land parcels from their land holdings for the establishment of a county seat. Averys holding lay to the south and Dixons to the north, with the Benton Country Courthouse marking the line of demarcation between these two land parcels. In December 1853 the 5th Oregon Territorial Legislature met in Salem, a heated debate followed, with the name ultimately awarded to Marysville in an act passed on December 20,1853. Corvallis was incorporated as a city on January 29,1857, nineteenth-century Corvallis saw a three-year boom beginning in 1889, which began with the establishment of a privately owned electrical plant by L. L. Hurd. In addition a carriage factory was launched in the city and the streets were improved. Bonds were issued for a water works, a sewer system. A publicity campaign was launched to attempt to expand the tax base through new construction for new arrivals and this effort proved mostly unsuccessful, however, and in 1892 normalcy returned, with the city saddled with about $150,000 in bonded debt. Corvallis is at an elevation of 235 feet above sea level, Oregon Route 99W, a secondary north–south route, also runs through Corvallis. U. S. Route 20 and Oregon Route 34 both secondary East-West routes run through Corvallis from the Oregon Coast, Corvallis is at river mile 131–32 of the Willamette River. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 14.30 square miles
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Portland Pilots
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The Portland Pilots is the nickname for athletics at the University of Portland. The Pilots compete in the West Coast Conference at the NCAA Division I level, the Pilots started to gain attention when Clive Charles began coaching the womens soccer team in 1989. He already had been the mens soccer coach since 1986, and he was replaced by Bill Irwin. The womens soccer team won championships in 2002 and 2005 and were led by numerous national-level players. Additionally, the soccer team has been to the College Cup twice in its history,1988 and 1995. In addition to soccer, UP consistently has one of the top cross country programs in the nation and their mens team, coached by Rob Conner, won their 34th overall West Coast Conference championship in October,2014. The mens team has gone to the NCAA Mens Division I Cross Country Championship a total of seventeen times, the team has finished among the top 10 seven times in its history, placing 7th in 2001,2008, and 2013. In 2014, the Pilots finished 3rd, their highest ever finish, in 2008, David Kinsella finished 4th overall, the highest any Pilot has ever placed individually at the national championships. Numerous other Pilots have earned All-American honors in cross country, including Scott Fauble, Alfred Kipchumba, Trevor Dunbar, Pete Julian, Uli Steidl, Joe Driscoll, Reid Buchanan, and John Moore. Rob Conner also heads the Pilots Indoor and Outdoor Track & Field teams, and has coached 25 All-Americans in distance events ranging from the mile to the 10, 000m run. Several Pilots have competed at the U. S. Olympic Trials under coach Conner, including William Woody Kincaid in the 5, 000m in 2016, the Pilots have had success in other sports as well. The mens basketball team has gone to the NCAA tournament twice and their womens basketball team has gone to the NCAA Tournament four times and the WNIT twice. Their baseball team has gone to the NCAA tournament five times. UP has not fielded a team since 1950. The University of Portland sponsors teams in seven mens and nine womens NCAA sanctioned sports, ^ = The mens and womens track, * = Beach volleyball is a fully sanctioned NCAA sport which had its first national championship in the spring of 2016. All volleyball and basketball games are held in the Chiles Center, the baseball team plays in Joe Etzel Field. The Louisiana-Pacific Tennis Center is home to the tennis teams
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Providence Park
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Providence Park is an outdoor sports venue located in the Goose Hollow neighborhood of Portland, Oregon, United States. The MLS Portland Timbers and NWSL Portland Thorns FC soccer teams use the facility as their home pitch, the NCAA Division I FCS Portland State Vikings football team uses the park during the Big Sky season. Originally, the park was owned by the Multnomah Athletic Club, in the 1950s, the PCL Portland Beavers baseball team moved out of Vaughn Street Park into what was then known as Multnomah Stadium. In 1966, the city purchased the stadium and renamed it Civic Stadium and it was renovated in 2001 to accommodate the Beavers, who had not played at the park since the early 1990s. The naming rights of the stadium were purchased by Portland General Electric, in 2010, the park underwent renovations again, this time so it could accommodate the Portland Timbers MLS franchise and a year later the rights to the stadiums name were sold, this time to Jeld-Wen. In 2014, the name was changed again to Providence Park after Providence Health & Services bought the naming rights. The stadium sits on a block bounded by Southwest Morrison Street, Southwest 18th Avenue, the Multnomah Athletic Club building and Southwest Salmon Street. Providence Park is a stadium which houses the MLS Portland Timbers, NWSL Portland Thorns. The stadium underwent a $31 million renovation in late 2010 and early 2011, the stadium is owned by the City of Portland, and is managed by Peregrine Sports, LLC, the entity that owns the Timbers and Thorns. Prior to the 2011 MLS season, the stadium was renamed Jeld-Wen Field from PGE Park, in a partnership with Klamath Falls, Jeld-Wen is a manufacturer of windows and doors, leading to the stadiums nickname, The House of Pane. In 2014, the stadium was renamed Providence Park after a partnership with Providence Health & Services was announced, the Multnomah Athletic Club, an athletic club in downtown Portland, stands next door, the windows of the north side of the clubs building overlook the field. The Interstate 405 freeway in Portland is also known locally as the Stadium Freeway, in addition, the Providence Park MAX Light Rail station is across the street. The property slopes significantly downhill from the end to the north end. The stadium is home to the Portland Timbers of MLS, Portland Thorns FC of NWSL. The Portland Beavers minor league team of the Pacific Coast League moved into the stadium in 1956 after playing several seasons at Vaughn Street Park. From 1973 to 1977 the independent Portland Mavericks of the Northwest League played their games at the stadium. Actor Kurt Russell was an infielder for the Mavericks, the Beavers returned to Portland in 1978 until 1993 when they were moved out of the city again. The Class A Portland Rockies were established in 1995 and played at the park until 2000 when they were moved and renamed the Tri-City Dust Devils
