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Quarterback
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A quarterback is a position in American and Canadian football. Quarterbacks are members of the team and line up directly behind the offensive line. In modern American football, the quarterback is considered the leader of the offensive team. In modern American football, the quarterback is usually the leader of the offense, the quarterback touches the ball on almost every offensive play, and his successes and failures can have a significant impact on the fortunes of his team. Accordingly, the quarterback is among the most glorified and scrutinized positions in team sports, prior to each play, the quarterback will usually tell the rest of his team which play the team will run. After the team is lined up, the center will pass the ball back to the quarterback, usually on a running play, the quarterback will then hand or pitch the ball backwards to a half back or full back. On a passing play, the quarterback is almost always the responsible for trying to throw the ball downfield to an eligible receiver downfield. Depending on the scheme by his team, the quarterbacks role can vary. While quarterbacks in Canadian football need to be able to throw the ball often, in the NFL, quarterbacks are required to wear a uniform number between 1 and 19. In the CFL, the quarterback can wear any number from 0 to 49 and 70 to 99. Because of their numbering, quarterbacks are eligible receivers in the NCAA, NFHS, after a Super Bowl victory, the starting quarterback is the first player to be presented with the Vince Lombardi Trophy. The starting quarterback of the victorious Super Bowl team is chosen for the Im going to Disney World. Campaign, whether they are the Super Bowl MVP or not, examples include Joe Montana, Trent Dilfer, Dilfer was chosen even though teammate Ray Lewis was the MVP of Super Bowl XXXV, due to the bad publicity from Lewis murder trial the prior year. In addition to their role, quarterbacks are occasionally used in other roles. Most teams utilize a backup quarterback as their holder on placekicks, in the Wildcat, a formation where a halfback lines up behind the center and the quarterback lines up out wide, the quarterback can be used as a receiving target or a blocker. A more rare use for a quarterback is to punt the ball himself, Denver Broncos quarterback John Elway was known to perform quick kicks occasionally, typically when the Broncos were facing a third-and-long situation. As Roger Staubachs back-up, Dallas Cowboys quarterback Danny White was also the teams punter, ascending the starting role upon Staubachs retirement, White held his position as the teams punter for several seasons—a double duty he performed to All-American standard at Arizona State University. White also had two touchdown receptions as a Dallas Cowboy, both from the halfback option, if quarterbacks are uncomfortable with the formation the defense is using, they may call an audible change to their play
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Vanderbilt Commodores football
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The Vanderbilt Commodores football program represents Vanderbilt University in the sport of American football. The Commodores compete in the Football Bowl Subdivision of the National Collegiate Athletic Association and they are currently coached by former Tennessee Titans wide receiver Derek Mason. Vanderbilt plays their games at Vanderbilt Stadium, located on the universitys Nashville. Adopting the nickname the Commodores after the 1897 season, the team has played in 1,250 games over 126 seasons. In that time, six coaches have led the Commodores to a bowl appearance, Art Guepe, Steve Sloan, George MacIntyre, Bobby Johnson, James Franklin. Four have led them to a championship, R. G. Acton, W. H. Watkins, James H. Henry. McGugin is the leader in seasons coached and games won, with 198 victories during his thirty years at Vanderbilt and he was awarded two National Championships retroactively by Clyde Berryman. Of the twenty-eight different head coaches who have led the Commodores, McGugin, Ray Morrison, Henry Russell Sanders, the current head coach is Derek Mason. Ole Miss is Vanderbilts cross-divisional rival in the SEC, Vanderbilt and Ole Miss have played 87 times since 1894. Ole Miss leads the series 50–38–2, the largest margin of victory was by 91 points won by Vanderbilt in 1915. Vanderbilt also holds the longest win streaks in the series from 1894 to 1938, having started in 1893, the Georgia-Vanderbilt football series has been played annually since 1968. The two are divisional opponents in the SEC East, the two are divisional opponents in the SEC East. The series, which rotates between Nashville, Tennessee and Lexington, Kentucky, is tied at 42–42–4 with the score being Vanderbilt 17-Kentucky 15.6. Vanderbilt and Tennessee have played 107 times since 1892, Tennessee leads the series 75–30–5, when the rivalry first started Vanderbilt dominated by taking 19 of the first 24 with 3 ties. After 1928, UT has dominated the rivalry with a record of Vanderbilt 71–11–2, the largest margin of victory for Vanderbilt was by 76 points in 1918 at Old Dudley Field in Nashville. The largest defeat was 65 points in 1994 at Vanderbilt Stadium, the longest win streaks for Vanderbilt is from 1901 to 1913. The longest win streak for Tennessee is 22, from 1983 to 2004, Vanderbilt and the Sewanee Tigers were both founding members of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association, the Southern Conference, and the Southeastern Conference. It is the oldest of Vanderbilts rivalries, dating back to 1891 when Vanderbilt played its football game
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Jasper, Tennessee
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Jasper is a town in Marion County, Tennessee, United States. It is the county seat of Marion County, the population was 3,279 at the 2010 census. The town was formed in 1820 from lands acquired from Betsy Pack, Jasper is part of the Chattanooga, TN–GA Metropolitan Statistical Area. Jasper is named for William Jasper, a Revolutionary War hero from South Carolina, Jasper was formed from land leased for $1 from Elizabeth aka Betsy Pack, daughter of Chief John Lowery and beloved Cherokee Woman Nannie Watts. Her descendants and friends of the family gather on a basis to place flowers at the courthouse marker. The towns primary north-south street, which follows a section of Tennessee State Route 150, has named in honor of Pack. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has an area of 9.2 square miles. The Sequatchie River flows just east of the town, and empties into the Tennessee River at the southeastern boundary. Kimball borders Jasper to the southwest, Jaspers courthouse square lies at the intersection of U. S. Route 72 and Tennessee State Route 150. US-72 connects the town with Chattanooga to the southeast and Kimball, South Pittsburg, State Route 150 connects Jasper with the Grundy County area atop the Plateau to the northwest. Tennessee State Route 28, part of the primary north-south corridor in the Sequatchie Valley, interstate 24 passes through Jaspers southern outskirts. As of the census of 2000, there were 3,214 people,1,299 households, the population density was 355.7 people per square mile. There were 1,393 housing units at a density of 154.2 per square mile. The racial makeup of the town was 90. 39% White,7. 34% African American,0. 31% Native American,0. 65% Asian,0. 03% Pacific Islander,0. 19% from other races, and 1. 09% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1. 21% of the population,25. 9% of all households were made up of individuals and 11. 6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.40 and the family size was 2.87. In the town, the population was out with 22. 5% under the age of 18,8. 3% from 18 to 24,28. 1% from 25 to 44,25. 9% from 45 to 64. The median age was 39 years, for every 100 females there were 92.9 males
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Tennessee
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Tennessee is a state located in the southeastern region of the United States. Tennessee is the 36th largest and the 17th most populous of the 50 United States, Tennessee is bordered by Kentucky and Virginia to the north, North Carolina to the east, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi to the south, and Arkansas and Missouri to the west. The Appalachian Mountains dominate the eastern part of the state, Tennessees capital and second largest city is Nashville, which has a population of 654,610. Memphis is the states largest city, with a population of 655,770, the state of Tennessee is rooted in the Watauga Association, a 1772 frontier pact generally regarded as the first constitutional government west of the Appalachians. What is now Tennessee was initially part of North Carolina, Tennessee was admitted to the Union as the 16th state on June 1,1796. Tennessee was the last state to leave the Union and join the Confederacy at the outbreak of the American Civil War in 1861, occupied by Union forces from 1862, it was the first state to be readmitted to the Union at the end of the war. Tennessee furnished more soldiers for the Confederate Army than any other state besides Virginia and this sharply reduced competition in politics in the state until after passage of civil rights legislation in the mid-20th century. This city was established to house the Manhattan Projects uranium enrichment facilities, helping to build the worlds first atomic bomb, Tennessees major industries include agriculture, manufacturing, and tourism. Poultry, soybeans, and cattle are the primary agricultural products, and major manufacturing exports include chemicals, transportation equipment. In the early 18th century, British traders encountered a Cherokee town named Tanasi in present-day Monroe County, the town was located on a river of the same name, and appears on maps as early as 1725. The meaning and origin of the word are uncertain, some accounts suggest it is a Cherokee modification of an earlier Yuchi word. It has been said to mean meeting place, winding river, according to ethnographer James Mooney, the name can not be analyzed and its meaning is lost. The modern spelling, Tennessee, is attributed to James Glen, the governor of South Carolina, the spelling was popularized by the publication of Henry Timberlakes Draught of the Cherokee Country in 1765. In 1788, North Carolina created Tennessee County, the county to be established in what is now Middle Tennessee. When a constitutional convention met in 1796 to organize a new out of the Southwest Territory. Other sources differ on the origin of the nickname, according to the Columbia Encyclopedia. Tennessee ties Missouri as the state bordering the most other states, the state is trisected by the Tennessee River. The highest point in the state is Clingmans Dome at 6,643 feet, Clingmans Dome, which lies on Tennessees eastern border, is the highest point on the Appalachian Trail, and is the third highest peak in the United States east of the Mississippi River
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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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1926 College Football All-Southern Team
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Alabama won the SoCon and national championship. The All-Southern eleven compiled by the Associated Press included, Red Barnes, quarterback for Alabama, professional baseball outfielder with Washington Senators, john Barnhill, tackle for Tennessee, later head coach at his alma mater. Herschel Caldwell, end for Alabama, made the point to tie Stanford in the Rose Bowl. Caldwell was called by one one of the greatest defensive backs the South has produced in years. He later assisted coach Wallace Wade at Duke University, gordon Holmes, center for Alabama, got a case of appendicitis en route to the Rose Bowl while in El Paso, and was left there with the idea of Babe Pearce filling in for Holmes. Holmes let his doctors know he would catch the train to Pasadena. Curtis Luckey, tackle for Georgia, known in his time as one of the best linemen in the South, charles Mackall, guard and captain for Virginia, led the Southern Conference in field goals in 1926 with four. He won the Virginia state amateur championship in 1927. In the rivalry game at Grant Field with Georgia Tech, Georgia found itself down 13 to 0 at the half, herdis McCrary and Morton led a comeback, winning 14 to 13. Known as the best all-round athlete that Episcopal High School has ever produced, fred Pickhard, guard for Alabama, blocked the punt against Sewanee, leading to the safety which secured the game and the undefeated season. Just 16 punts were blocked all year for scores in college football and he was selected Most Valuable Player of the 1927 Rose Bowl in which Alabama tied Stanford. He then had a career with the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company in Portland. Ty Rauber, fullback for Washington and Lee, third-team AP All-American and he was later a special agent with the FBI. Bill Spears, quarterback for Vanderbilt, second-team AP All-American, inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1962, hoyt Winslett, end for Alabama, first Southern player elected first-team AP All-American. He was recently shifted from the backfield to end, and was a renowned passer connecting many times with Caldwell, hoyt Winslett received the most votes,37 of a possible 41. SWI = selected by S. W. Inman, Jr.1926 College Football All-America Team
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1927 College Football All-Southern Team
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The All-Southern eleven compiled by the Associated Press included, John Barnhill, guard for Tennessee, second-team AP All-American, later head coach at his alma mater. His play against Vanderbilt helped secure the spot on the eleven, as he outplayed Vandy center Vernon Sharpe, dick Dodson, halfback for Tennessee, set a record with a 91 yard run versus Transylvania. Its still the second longest run in Tennessee history, broken with a 99 yard run by Kelsey Finch against Florida in 1977, in the Tennessee-Vanderbilt game of 27, Dodson carried the ball but four times, yet was the main reason for Tennessee keeping the game a tie. Herdis McCrary, fullback for Georgia, second-team AP and UP All-American, known as Bull, he played in the National Football League for the Green Bay Packers from 1929 to 1933. Tom Nash, end for Georgia, consensus All-American and he played professionally for the Green Bay Packers, selected All-Pro in 1932. Fred Pickhard, tackle and captain for Alabama, second-team CP, ivey Shiver, end and captain for Georgias dream and wonder team. Known as Chick, he was first-team AP All-American and he played professional baseball for the Detroit Tigers and Cincinnati Reds. Gene Smith, guard for Georgia, third-team AP All-American and he played in the NFL for the Portsmouth Spartans. Bill Spears, quarterback for Vanderbilt, nearest to a selection, first-team AP All-American. He was speedy and rarely threw an interception, stumpy Thomason, halfback for Georgia Tech, played in the NFL for the Brooklyn Dodgers and Philadelphia Eagles. Jess Tinsley, tackle for LSU, cousin of Gaynell Tinsley and he played in the NFL for the Chicago Cardinals. Bill Spears received the most selections from the Associated Press composite, sixty four votes in all were cast. Winston Cardwell, Virginia E. J. K. Smith, tips, Washington & Lee Raleigh Drennon, Georgia Tech V. E. Miles, VPI Arthur Tripp, Tennessee Bud Shuler, North Carolina L. R. It had a first and second team, UP = composite selected by the United Press. It had a first and second team and those who received selections despite missing first or second team are appended with a C. CP = selected by fans of the South through Central Press newspapers. EB = selected by Miss Emily Boyd, sports editor of the Griffin Daily News, the only woman sports editor in the south
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College Football All-America Team
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The College Football All-America Team is an honor given annually to the best American college football players at their respective positions. Camp took over the responsibility for picking the All-America team and was recognized as the selector in the early years of the 20th century. com. As of 2009, the National Collegiate Athletic Association recognizes the All-America teams selected by the AP, AFCA, FWAA, Sporting News, if three of these organizations select a player to their first team, he automatically receives the consensus honor. If a player is named an All-American by all five organizations, depending upon the distribution of first team honors at any given position, it is possible to be consensus with fewer than three first-team selections. The University of Notre Dame has produced the most unanimous All Americans of any program, there have been 2,868 players from 156 colleges and universities since 1889 who were selected to at least one All-American first team. It has selected an All-America team since 1925, the American Football Coaches Association has selected an All-America team every year since 1945. It is often referred to as the Coaches All-America Team, the Coaches’ All-America Team has been sponsored by various entities throughout the years but it is now under its own banner, the AFCA. These are the sponsors/publishers of the team throughout the years and it is sometimes referred to as the Writers All-America Team. The FWAA has selected an All-America team with the help of its members, the All-America team is selected by a committee of writers representing all conferences and regions of the NCAA. The Writers Team has been highlighted in various media forums, from 1946-70, Look published the FWAA team and brought players and selected writers to New York City for a celebration. During that 25-year period, the FWAA team was introduced on television shows by Bob Hope, Steve Allen, Perry Como. After Look folded, the FWAA started an association with NCAA Films. The team was part of ABC Televisions 1981 College Football Series, from 1983-90, the team was either on ABC or ESPN, and since 1991 has returned to the national spotlight on ABC. The corporate sponsor for the Writers team is AT&T, after years of Cingular being the sponsor. Walter Camp, The Father of American Football, first selected an All-America team in 1889, the WCF claims an 80% participation rate in the voting for its All-America team. Sporting News, formerly known as The Sporting News and known colloquially as TSN, have teams college football editors and staff select teams, from that year through the 1962 season TSNs All-America team was picked by a poll of sportswriters. Beginning in 1964 the team was selected by professional scouts and observers, the Sporting News cited the advent of two-platoon football as the need to go to that system. United Press International is a organization that selected players in a national poll of sportswriters
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Dan McGugin
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Daniel Earle McGugin was an American football player and coach, as well as a lawyer. He served as the football coach at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee from 1904 to 1917 and again from 1919 to 1934. He is the winningest head coach in the history of the university, McGugin was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1951 as part of its inaugural class. Zipp Newman once wrote “I believe Dan McGugin would have gone down in history as the greatest of all coaches had he given all of his time to coaching. He was a great play-maker, but football was a sport for the beloved McGugin and law was his profession. ”McGugin was born in July 1879 on a farm near Tingley and he was the son of Benjamin Franklin McGugin and Melissa McGugin. He was of Scottish and Irish descent, McGugin saw the baton twirling skills of W. W. Wharton in Tingley for a Sunday evening church service one day in 1896 and was intrigued. Wharton, Drake Universitys first football coach, suggested he play football instead, come to Drake University, Wharton suggested, and well make you as fine a tackle as there is. McGugin enrolled at Drake University and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1901 and he played football at Drake for two years at the guard and tackle positions and was considered one of the best players that Drake ever had. After one victory he purchased a small cannon and fired it at regular fifteen-minute intervals, nodding politely to neighbors Sabbath complaints. After graduating from Drake, McGugin enrolled in law school at the University of Michigan, while there, McGugin played college football for Fielding H. Yost. He was a player on Michigans Point-a-Minute teams that outscored their opponents,1,211 to 12 in 1901 and 1902, as a guard he is careful yet nervy. He gets the jump on his opponents and keeps the advantage, although a hard player he goes into each scrimmage with as much composure as if he were walking along the campus. McGugin, although good in every department of his position, has two qualities that are pre-eminent, namely, making interference and opening holes, heston has been especially fortunate this year in having a good interference, and part of that interference has been McGugin. McGugin was the football coach for the Vanderbilt Commodores of Vanderbilt University from 1904 to 1917. During his tenures, the Vanderbilt Commodores compiled a 197–55–19 record, had a.762 winning percentage, and won 11 conference titles. He had numerous intersectional triumphs, defeating the Carlisle Indians in 1906, and tying the Navy Midshipmen in 1907, the Yale Bulldogs in 1910, McGugin used his mentor Yosts short punt formation. In his first career game, McGugins team defeated Mississippi A&M and he went on to win his next two games by 60 points as well. He remains the only coach in NCAA history to win his first three games by 60 points and he also won each of his first 11 games by more than 20 points
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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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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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1927 Vanderbilt Commodores football team
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The 1927 Vanderbilt Commodores football team represented Vanderbilt University in the 1927 Southern Conference football season. The 1927 season was Dan McGugins 23rd year as head coach, running back Jimmy Armistead led the nation in scoring in 1927 with 138 points. The teams quarterback was Bill Spears, one fellow wrote Vanderbilt produced almost certainly the legit top Heisman candidate in Spears, if there had been a Heisman Trophy to award in 1927. Vanderbilt started the season with a 45–18 victory over Chattanooga, in the second week of play, Ouachita was defeated 39–10. In Dallas, the Commodores suffered the only loss to Texas Longhorns 13–6. Texas scored on a 20-yard pass from Baldwin to Ford, Vanderbilts lone score came on a 16-yard pass to Owens. Spears fought three Texans as he threw the pass, the starting lineup was Kelly, Lusky, Cecil, V. Sharpe, Oliver, Abernathy, Creson, Spears, McIlwain, Owen, Armistead. Bernie Bierman thought of ditching his single-wingback formation after the 32–0 win over Tulane, the starting lineup was Abernathy, Hawkins, Kelly, V. Sharpe, Cecil, Lusky, Creson, Spears, Owen, McIlwain, Armistead. The starting lineup was James, Hawkins, Kelly, Oliver, Cecil, Lusky, Creson, Spears, Owen, McIlwain, a strong game had been predicted, showcasing each teams backfield stars in Stumpy Thomason of Tech and Bill Spears of Vanderbilt. Vernon Sharpe suffered an injury before the game. The starting lineup was Abernathy, Hawkins, Kelly, V. McGugins Commodores led 7–0 until a late Dick Dodson run tied the score, after the game McGugin questioned each of his players as to his whereabouts during the run. Without exception the players claimed that two men had blocked them, well, well just protest the play. Its perfectly obvious that Tennessee had twenty-two men on the field, Vanderbilt center Vernon Sharpe arguably had the better season, but was outperformed by Tennessees Elvin Butcher. The starting lineup was Abernathy, Hawkins, James, V. Sharpe, Cecil, Lusky, Creson, Spears, Owen, McIlwain, Spears played only in the first half in the 39–20 win over Maryland, but completed 10 of 12 passes. The starting lineup was Abernathy, Hawkins, Oliver, V. Sharpe, Cecil, Lusky, Creson, Owen, McIlwain, Sims, the Commodores faced Wallace Wades Alabama Crimson Tide in the season finale. Spears gained more than the entire Alabama backfield as the Commodores won 14–7, the highlight of Vanderbilts first scoring drive was a pass from Spears to Armistead of 20 yards, down to the 3-yard line, from which Armistead later ran it in. On Alabamas scoring drive, Red Brown ran 23 yards on a reverse, tony Holm eventually got the score. In the fourth quarter, Spears led the drive, once circling end for 34 yards
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Grantland Rice
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Henry Grantland Rice was an early 20th-century American sportswriter known for his elegant prose. His writing was published in newspapers around the country and broadcast on the radio, Grantland Rice was born in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, the son of Bolling Hendon Rice, a cotton dealer, and his wife, Mary Beulah Rice. His grandfather Major H. W. Rice was a Confederate veteran of the Civil War, on the football team, he lettered in the year of 1899 as an end and averaged two injuries a year. On the baseball team, he was captain in 1901, Vanderbilt coach Dan McGugin in Spaldings Football Guides summation of the season in the SIAA wrote, The standing. First, Vanderbilt, second, Sewanee, a mighty good second, Rice coached the 1908 Vanderbilt baseball team. After taking early jobs with the Atlanta Journal and the Cleveland News, the job at the Tennessean was given to him by former Sewanee Tigers coach Billy Suter, who coached baseball teams against which Rice played while at Vanderbilt. Afterwards he obtained a series of jobs with major newspapers in the Northeastern United States. In 1914 he began his Sportlight column in the New York Tribune and he also provided monthly Grantland Rice Sportlights as part of Paramount newsreels from 1925–1954. In dramatic lore they are known as famine, pestilence, destruction and their real names are, Stuhldreher, Miller, Crowley and Layden. The passage added great import to the event described and elevated it to a level far beyond that of a football game. He became even better known after his columns were nationally syndicated beginning in 1930 and he and his writing are among the reasons that the 1920s in the United States are sometimes referred to as the Golden Age of Sports. Rices all-time All-America backfield was Jim Thorpe, Red Grange, Ken Strong and his sense of honor can be seen in his own actions. Before leaving for service in World War I, he entrusted his entire fortune, about $75,000, on his return from the war, Rice discovered that his friend had lost all the money in bad investments, and then had committed suicide. Rice accepted the blame for putting “that much temptation” in his friends way, Rice then made monthly contributions to the man’s widow throughout his life. Appleton and Company of New York, Rice married Fannie Katherine Hollis on April 11,1906, they had one child, the actress Florence Rice. Rice died at the age 73 on July 13,1954 and he is interred at Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx, New York City. For when the One Great Scorer comes To mark against your name, He writes – not that you won or lost – But how you played the Game. The loafer has no come-back and the quitter no reply, When the Anvil Chorus echoes, as it will, against the sky, But there’s one quick answer ready that will wrap them in a hood, Make good
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The McCallie School
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The McCallie School is a boys college-preparatory school located on Missionary Ridge in Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States. The school was founded in 1905 and now has 246 boarding students in grades 9-12 and 669 day students in grades 6-12, both McCallie brothers had backgrounds in education. Park had taught for two years at Culver Academy after receiving a doctorate from The University of Virginia. The brothers wrote that wanted to establish a first class University school, and they began it with 40 acres of farm land,2 houses. The brothers, however, eschewed an exclusively academic model for education, the school opened on September 21,1905 and by the end of the first term, enrollment had grown from 42 boys to 58. Tuition was $50 a semester, and teachers and headmaster alike earned $50 a month, by the schools 15th anniversary in 1919 the student body had grown to 280 students. The student body adopted a code in 1906 which requires every student to write and sign his name to the following Honor Pledge whenever he submits a major assignment. I have neither given nor received any unauthorized help, the Senate, a group of students elected each year by the student body, administers the Honor Code with the assistance of a faculty adviser. The code does not require students to one another in. Students are required to take five to six classes per semester, at least four of these courses must be from the Core Program, which includes, English, Math, History, Foreign Language, and Science. The remaining course load may be filled with such as Public Speaking, Health, Bible, Fine Arts. Some features of McCallie’s curriculum include, upper level Math courses, Computer Science courses, foreign languages, the school employs over 130 full-time faculty members,12 part-time faculty members, four full-time academic counselors, and numerous adjunct faculty members and tutors. Nearly half of the faculty and staff live on campus. The curriculum offers Advanced Placement courses in the areas, art, language, foreign language, economics, mathematics, history. McCallie’s 6-12th grade student body consists of 915 students, of these, approximately 246 are boarding students hailing from 21 different states and 5 foreign countries. All boarding students are in grades 9-12,255 Middle School day students comprise grades 6-8. McCallies campus consists of 110 acres on the slope of Missionary Ridge. It is located 3 miles east of downtown Chattanooga, and an expansion program over the past few years has extended the campus southward
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1926 Vanderbilt Commodores football team
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The 1926 Vanderbilt Commodores football team represented Vanderbilt University during the 1926 college football season. The teams head coach was Dan McGugin, who served his 22nd season as the Commodores head coach, Commodores had eight wins and lost only one to Alabama, who was named a national champion. Vanderbilt was a member of the Southern Conference, and went 4–1 in conference play, the Commodores played their eight home games at Dudley Field in Nashville, Tennessee. They also played one game in Dallas, Texas vs, Texas and one in Atlanta, Georgia vs. All-Southern, Bill Spears, Ox McKibbon Dan McGugin, head coach Josh Cody, assistant coach Lewie Hardage, backfield coach Hek Wakefield, end coach John Weibel, line coach
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Heisman Trophy
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The Heisman Memorial Trophy, is awarded annually to the most outstanding player in college football in the United States whose performance best exhibits the pursuit of excellence with integrity. Winners epitomize great ability combined with diligence, perseverance, and hard work and it is presented by the Heisman Trophy Trust in early December before the postseason bowl games. The award was created by the Downtown Athletic Club in 1935 to recognize the most valuable football player east of the Mississippi. After the death in October 1936 of the Clubs athletic director, John Heisman, Heisman had been active in college athletics as a football player, a head football, basketball, and baseball coach, and an athletic director. It is the oldest of several awards in college football, including the Maxwell Award, Walter Camp Award. The most recent winner of the Heisman Trophy is University of Louisville quarterback Lamar Jackson, the trophy itself, designed by sculptor Frank Eliscu, is modeled after Ed Smith, a leading player in 1934 for the now-defunct New York University football team. The trophy is made out of cast bronze, is 13.5 inches tall, Eliscu had asked Smith, his former George Washington High School classmate, to pose for a commissioned sculpture of a football player. Smith did not realize until 1982 that the sculpture had become the Heisman Trophy, the Downtown Athletic Club presented Smith with a Heisman Trophy of his own in 1985. From its inception in 1935, the statue was cast by Dieges & Clust in New York until 1980, for a time until at least 2008, the statues were cast by Roman Bronze Works in New York. There are 870 media voters,145 voters from each of six regions, according to Heisman. com there are currently 57 prior winners eligible to vote and, thus,57 potential votes. Fans, As the Premier Partner of the Heisman Trophy, Nissan has a vote, fan voting done through a survey collected by ESPN on NissanHeismanHouse. com. Each voter identifies three selections, ranking them in order, each first-place selection is awarded three points. Each second-place selection is awarded two points, each third-place selection is awarded one point. Voters must make three selections and cannot duplicate a selection, else the ballot is invalid and none of the selections count, the accounting firm Deloitte is responsible for the tabulation of votes, which has moved almost exclusively to online voting since 2007. Larry Kelley and Clint Frank of Yale were the first teammates to win the Heisman Trophy, nile Kinnick of Iowa was the only Heisman Trophy winner to have a stadium named after him. In 1972, the University of Iowa renamed its football complex Kinnick Stadium, Kinnick is also the only winner to die in military service of the United States, he went down piloting an F4F Wildcat from the deck of USS Lexington. His death in 1943 made him the first Heisman Trophy winner to die, Doc Blanchard was the first junior to win the Heisman Trophy when he led Army to the national title in 1945. Paul Hornung was the player to win the Heisman Trophy as a player for a losing team
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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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Running back
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A running back is an American and Canadian football position, a member of the offensive backfield. The primary roles of a running back are to receive handoffs from the quarterback for a play, to catch passes from out of the backfield. There are usually one or two running backs on the field for a play, depending on the offensive formation. A running back may be a halfback or a fullback, a running back will sometimes be called a feature back if he is the teams starting running back. The halfback or tailback position is responsible for carrying the ball on the majority of running plays, in the modern game, an effective halfback must have a blend of both quickness and agility as a runner, as well as sure hands and good vision up-field as a receiver. Quarterbacks depend on halfbacks as a safety valve receiver when primary targets downfield are covered or when they are under pressure, occasionally, halfbacks line up as additional wide receivers. As a trick play, running backs are used to pass the ball on a halfback option play or halfback pass. The difference between halfback and tailback is the position of the player in the offensive formation. In historical formations, the lined up approximately halfway between the line of scrimmage and the fullback. Because the halfback is usually the main ball carrier, modern offensive formations have positioned the halfback behind the fullback. As a result, some systems or playbooks will call for a tailback as opposed to a halfback, in most modern college and professional football schemes, fullbacks carry the ball infrequently, instead using their stronger physiques as primary lead blockers. On most running plays, the leads the halfback, attempting to block potential tacklers before they reach the ball carrier. When fullbacks are called upon to carry the ball, the situation calls for gaining a short amount of yardage. Fullbacks are technically running backs, but today the term running back is used in referring to the halfback or tailback. Although modern fullbacks are rarely used as carriers, in previous offensive schemes fullbacks would be the designated ball carriers. In high school football, where player sizes vary greatly, fullbacks are still used as ball carriers. In high school and college offenses, the triple option uses the fullback as a primary ball carrier. The fullback plays a role by establishing an inside running threat on every play
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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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Henry Russell Sanders
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Henry Russell Red Sanders was an American football player and coach. He was head coach at Vanderbilt University and the University of California at Los Angeles, Sanders 1954 UCLA team was named national champions by the Coaches Poll and the Football Writers Association of America. Sanders was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1996, known for being witty and hard driving, Sanders used the single-wing formation at Vanderbilt and UCLA. He is widely credited with coining the saying, Winning isnt everything, when asked about the UCLA–USC rivalry, Sanders said its not a matter of life and death, its more important than that. He was the first Wizard of Westwood before that title was attributed to UCLA Basketball coach John Wooden, born in Asheville, North Carolina, Sanders spent most of his youth in Nashville, Tennessee. One of his best boyhood friends and classmate at Duncan was renowned sports writer Fred Russell, Sanders attended college at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. He was a four-year letterman both in football and baseball, Sanders was captain of the baseball team in his senior year and a substitute quarterback on the football team. His football coach, Dan McGugin, said of him, Red Sanders has one of the best football minds I have ever known, Sanders was first hired by Josh Cody as the backfield coach of the Clemson Tigers. He got his first head coaching position at Riverside Military Academy, the father of Bucky Curtis hired Sanders for the job. Sanders then assisted the 1938 Florida Gators, again with Cody, and he also had a successful stint as head coach at Vanderbilt, compiling a 36–22–2 record, the best mark by a coach while the school has been a member of the Southeastern Conference. The first top-20 ranking in the history in 1947, where the team was ranked #10 after opening the season with two wins. The team defended its ranking with a defeat of #18 Mississippi, an eight-game winning string to end the 1948 season, including a ranking in the final poll and a defeat of archrival Tennessee. This still stands as the second longest single-season win streak in Vanderbilt football history, Sanders coached the UCLA Bruins from 1949 through 1957. The 1954 Bruins compiled a 9–0 record and climbed to the top of the Coaches Poll, sharing the championship with Ohio State. Due to the PCCs early no repeat rule, the undefeated Bruins were unable to compete in the Rose Bowl that season despite being the PCC champion. Second-place USC, who the Bruins defeated 34–0, played in the 1955 Rose Bowl instead and lost to Big Ten Conference champion and eventual co-national champion Ohio State, 20–7. Sanders appeared as a contestant on the November 18,1954 episode of the quiz program You Bet Your Life, hosted by Groucho Marx. Original air date,1 January 1956, shortly before the 1958 season, Sanders died suddenly of a heart attack in a Los Angeles hotel room on August 14
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Ancestry.com
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Ancestry. com LLC is a privately held Internet company based in Lehi, Utah, United States. The largest for-profit genealogy company in the world, it operates a network of genealogical and historical record websites focused on the United States, as of June 2014, the company provided access to approximately 16 billion historical records and had over 2 million paying subscribers. User-generated content tallies to more than 70 million family trees, and subscribers have added more than 200 million photographs, scanned documents, and written stories. Ancestrys brands include Ancestry, AncestryDNA, AncestryHealth, AncestryProGenealogists, Archives. com, Family Tree Maker, Find a Grave, Fold3, Newspapers. com, and Rootsweb. Under its subsidiaries, Ancestry. com operates foreign sites that provide access to services and these include Australia, Canada, China, Japan, Brazil, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and several other countries in Europe and Asia. In 1990, Paul B. Allen and Dan Taggart, two Brigham Young University graduates, founded Infobases and began offering Latter-day Saints publications on floppy disks, in 1988, Allen had worked at Folio Corporation, founded by his brother Curt and his brother-in-law Brad Pelo. Infobases chose to use the Folio infobase technology, which Allen was familiar with, Infobases first products were floppy disks and compact disks sold from the back seat of the founders car. In 1994, Infobases was named among Inc. magazines 500 fastest-growing companies and their first offering on CD was the LDS Collectors Edition, released in April 1995, selling for $299.95, which was offered in an online version in August 1995. Ancestry officially went online with the launched Ancestry. com in 1996, with its roots as a genealogy newsletter started in 1983 by John Sittner, and became an established publishing company in 1984. Ancestry was relaunched as a magazine in January 1994, and went online in 1996, on January 1,1997, Infobases parent company, Western Standard Publishing, purchased Ancestry, Inc. publisher of Ancestry magazine and genealogy books. Western Standard Publishings CEO was Joe Cannon, one of the owners of Geneva Steel. In July 1997, Allen and Taggart purchased Western Standards interest in Ancestry, at the time, Brad Pelo was president and CEO of Infobases, and president of Western Standard. Less than six months earlier, he had been president of Folio Corporation, in March 1997, Folio was sold to Open Market for $45 million. The first public evidence of the change in ownership of Ancestry Magazine came with the July/August 1997 issue and that issues masthead also included the first use of the Ancestry. com web address. More growth for Infobases occurred in July 1997, when Ancestry, Inc. purchased Bookcraft, Infobases had published many of Bookcrafts books as part of its LDS Collectors Library. Pelo also announced that Ancestrys product line would be expanded in both CDs and online. Alan Ashton, an investor in Infobases and founder of WordPerfect, was its chairman of the board. Allen and Taggart began running Ancestry, Inc. independently from Infobases in July 1997, included in the sale were the rights to Infobases LDS Collectors Library on CD
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Open access
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Open access refers to online research outputs that are free of all restrictions on access and free of many restrictions on use. These additional usage rights are granted through the use of various specific Creative Commons licenses. There are multiple ways authors can provide access to their work. One way is to publish it and then self-archive it in a repository where it can be accessed for free, such as their institutional repository and this is known as green open access. Some publishers require delays, or an embargo, on when an output in a repository may be made open access. Several initiatives provide an alternative to the American and English language dominance of existing publication indexing systems, including Index Copernicus, SciELO and Redalyc. A second way authors can make their work open access is by publishing it in such a way that makes their research output immediately available from the publisher. This is known as open access, and within the sciences this often takes the form of publishing an article in either an open access journal. Pure open access journals do not charge fees, and may have one of a variety of business models. Many, however, do charge an article processing fee, widespread public access to the World Wide Web in the late 1990s and early 2000s fueled the open access movement, and prompted both the green open access way and the creation of open access journals. Conventional non-open access journals cover publishing costs through access tolls such as subscriptions, some non-open access journals provide open access after an embargo period of 6–12 months or longer. The Budapest statement defined open access as follows, There are many degrees, despite these statements emerging in the 2000s, the idea and practise of providing free online access to journal articles began at least a decade before the term open access was formally coined. Computer scientists had been self-archiving in anonymous ftp archives since the 1970s, the Subversive Proposal to generalize the practice was posted in 1994. Gratis OA refers to online access, and libre OA refers to free online access plus some additional re-use rights. The Budapest, Bethesda, and Berlin definitions had corresponded only to libre OA, the re-use rights of libre OA are often specified by various specific Creative Commons licenses, these almost all require attribution of authorship to the original authors. Open access itself began to be sought and provided worldwide by researchers when the possibility itself was opened by the advent of Internet, the momentum was further increased by a growing movement for academic journal publishing reform, and with it gold and libre OA. Electronic publishing created new benefits as compared to paper publishing but beyond that, rather than applying traditional notions of copyright to academic publications, they could be libre or free to build upon. The intended audience of research articles is usually other researchers, Open access helps researchers as readers by opening up access to articles that their libraries do not subscribe to
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Fred Russell
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Fred Russell was an American sports writer prominent in the Golden Era of Sports in the 20th century. He was a resident of Nashville, Tennessee and was sports editor. He published three books of humor in the 1940s. Russell was a protégé and friend of famed sportswriter Grantland Rice, Russell is a member of the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association Hall of Fame and the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame. One of his most enduring legacies was his influence on collegiate sports, the Honors Court determines the inductees to the Hall of Fame. Born in Wartrace, Tennessee, Russell attended Vanderbilt University Class of 1927 in Nashville, at Vanderbilt, Russell was a good student, a member of the Kappa Chapter of Kappa Sigma Fraternity, and a varsity baseball player. He played second base and pitched and he later attended Vanderbilt Law School. In 1929, Russell was hired for the beat by the Nashville Banner. The following year, Russell became the Sports Editor of the Banner, Russell would be a member of the Banner staff until the paper closed in 1998. Over the next 68 years, Russell wrote over 12,000 columns, Russell covered the major sports in America for over 65 years. His heyday was the Golden Age of sports—the 1930s to the 1950s—when newspapers were the form of media and news, before television. He covered the major Bowl Games throughout the decades, Russell was one of the principle journalists involved in the growth and popularity of college football, the Southeastern Conference, and the National Collegiate Athletic Association. Among Russells trademarks was his emphasis on the lighter, humorous side of sports as well as his penchant for playing practical jokes. His three sports books, Ill Go Quietly, Ill Try Anything Twice and Funny Thing About Sports were collections of humorous quotes, jokes, anecdotes and stories from the world of sports. The first two were published specifically for American troops in World War II, before television and radio were able to entertain troops abroad. Russell was instrumental in the formation and history of the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame, in 2003, the Hall began the Fred Russell Distinguished American Award, given annually to a Tennessean who has exhibited excellence in their contribution to sports. Russells memorabilia, including his personal items, photographs, awards, in 1998, the Banner folded and it was assumed that the 92-year-old Russell would retire. Instead he was hired to write a column for The Tennessean
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Sam Costen
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Samuel Cutter Costen was an American football player and coach. Costen was a quarterback for Dan McGugins Vanderbilt Commodores of Vanderbilt University, as a player he weighed some 150 pounds. He was the head college football coach for The Citadel Bulldogs located in Charleston, South Carolina. His career coaching record at The Citadel was 7–7–2 and he also coached in Blytheville, Arkansas. Costen graduated from Vanderbilt in 1908 with a LL. B degree and he was a member of Alpha Tau Omega. Costen died in Memphis in 1955, sam Costen at the College Football Data Warehouse
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Ray Morrison
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J. Ray Morrison was an American football and baseball player and a coach of football, basketball, and baseball. He served as the football coach at Southern Methodist University, Vanderbilt University, Temple University. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1954. Morrison was also the basketball coach at Vanderbilt for one season in 1918–19, tallying a mark of 8–2. Ray Morrison was born on February 28,1885 in Sugar Branch, soon after the family moved to McKenzie, Tennessee, where Morrison attended school. He also spent a year at McTyiere School for Boys, to achieve funds for college, Morrison worked on a dredge boat on the Mississippi River for a year. He played football as a prominent halfback and quarterback for Dan McGugins Vanderbilt football teams from 1908 to 1911 and he is considered one of the best quarterbacks in Vanderbilts long history. The team posted a 30–6–2 record during his four years, Morrison was selected as the quarterback and kick returner for an Associated Press Southeast Area All-Time football team 1869-1919 era. He weighed some 155 to 159 pounds, the 1908 squad was hampered by a wealth of sophomores, which McGugin with the help of halfback Morrison led to a 7–2–1 campaign, derailed mostly by losses to Sewanee. The 1910 team fought defending national champion Yale to a tie on Yale Field. Yale coach Ted Coy called Morrison the greatest player I have seen in years, the Atlanta Constitution voted it the best backfield in the South. Morrison won Bachelor of Ugliness for the class of 1912, Morrison first taught and was athletics director at Branham & Hughes Military Academy in Spring Hill. Ray Morrison was the first head coach in the history of SMU Mustangs football and he won just two games in two years from 1915 to 1916. Upon American entry into World War I, Morrison went to Fort Oglethorpe and he coached Vanderbilt in 1918 when McGugin left for the military, and led the Vanderbilt team to a 4–2 record. In 1919, Morrison spent a year at Gulf Coast Military Academy as athletics director, in 1920, Morrison returned to SMU. He notably brought the pass to the southwest during his time at SMU. Morrison was one of the first to not just on first down. Gerald Mann was one of his best passers and his teams earned the nickname the Flying Circus
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Zach Curlin
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Zachary Henry Curlin was an American football and basketball player and coach. He was a halfback and quarterback on Dan McGugins Vanderbilt Commodores football teams from 1910 to 1913, and he made kicks on both Harvard and Michigan. Curlin was pulled for his backup Rabbi Robbins in Vanderbilts largest win its history, a 105–0 win over Bethel in 1912, Curlin later served as the Memphis Tigers mens basketball coach for many years. A street bears his name on the University of Memphis campus, zach Curlin at the College Football Data Warehouse
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Irby Curry
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Irby Rice Rabbit Curry was an American football quarterback for Vanderbilt University from 1914 to 1916. He was selected as a first-team All-Southern player in 1915 and 1916, in August 1918, while serving as a pilot in the 95th Aero Squadron during World War I, he was killed in aerial combat over France. He was described as the player who has most appealed to the imagination, admiration, Curry was born on August 4,1894 in Marlin, Texas to his parents, Oscar E. Curry and Emma C. He attended Marlin High School, where he was a stand-out athlete. In 1912, he was the Texas state champion in the vault as a junior with a then-record 104. After graduating from school, Curry enrolled at Vanderbilt University where he became the quarterback for the schools football team from 1914 to 1916. He was nominated though not selected for an Associated Press All-Time Southeast 1869-1919 era team, Curry weighed only 130 pounds while playing football for Vanderbilt. He was a runner who reportedly only needed the suspicion of an opening to wriggle through, and once into the open — zip, flash. Curry also played center field on the team and would pole vault, hurdle. He was a member of the Delta Tau Delta fraternity and the Delta Sigma Delta medical fraternity. As a junior in 1915, Curry led Vanderbilt to a season in which they scored 514 points in 510 minutes of actual playing time. Following an 85-yard touchdown run in Vanderbilts one loss, The Washington Post wrote that the little Curry was quick as a flash, in Vanderbilts 1915 game against Mississippi, the team traveled by train from Nashville to Memphis, Tennessee, where the game was to be played. The players complained about the lack of food on the train, the manager later recalled that Curry ate many of the green apples and proceeded to score six touchdowns and kick eight goals after touchdown against Ole Miss. Vanderbilts final game of the 1915 season was a Thanksgiving Day game against Sewanee, near the end of the last quarter, when Clark punted, Curry received the ball on his own 20-yard line and ran 80 yards for a touchdown. Another time he ran 34 yards for a touchdown, time after time Curry made 10,15 and 20 yard gains, and his work was largely responsible for Vanderbilts victory. Sewanee coach Harris Cope said I think Curry is one of the greatest players I have ever seen, at the end of the 1915 season, Curry was selected as a first-team All-Southern back by all ten Southern sporting writers in a composite poll published by The Atlanta Constitution. In December 1915, Currys teammates elected him captain of the 1916 Vanderbilt football team, during the 1916 football season, Curry led Vanderbilt to a 7–1–1 record. Curry had runs of 61,40 and 11 yards against Virginia, scored a touchdown, at the end of the 1916 season, Curry was selected as an All-Southern quarterback and as a third-team All-American by Walter Camp for Colliers Weekly
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Frank Godchaux
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Frank Area Godchaux Jr. was an American football and baseball player for the Vanderbilt Commodores of Vanderbilt University. Frank Area Godchaux Jr. was born on December 27,1901 in Abbeville, Louisiana to Frank Godchaux Sr. His father was a letterman and quarterback for the Commodores on the 1899 team, transferring from LSU in 1897, and once President of the Louisiana Rice Milling Company, Godchaux Hall at Vanderbilt University was named for his wife, Mary Ragland Godchaux. A Gothic building constructed in 1925 as a home for the School of Nursing, it now houses faculty and administrative offices, the Center for Nursing Research, and it was named for Mary Ragland in 1971. He was a member of the 1921 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association champion football and baseball teams, Godchaux was a prominent running back for Dan McGugins Vanderbilt Commodores football teams. On the 1921 football team Godchaux was its leading scorer behind Rupert Smith. Godchaux was the first son to follow in his fathers footsteps as a Vanderbilt football player, on the 1921 baseball team, Frank Jr. was a catcher. Detailed and extensive document of the farms of Frank A. Godchaux Jr
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Oliver Kuhn
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Oliver Wall Kuhn, nicknamed Doc Kuhn, was an American football, baseball and basketball player for the Vanderbilt University Commodores and later a prominent businessman of Tampa, Florida. As a college quarterback, Kuhn led Vanderbilt to three consecutive Southern titles in 1921,1922, and 1923 – the most-recent conference titles for Vanderbilt football. In 1922, Vanderbilt tied Michigan at the dedication of Dudley Field, during his senior year, Kuhn was the captain of Vanderbilts football and basketball teams and received the Porter Cup, awarded to Vanderbilts best all-around athlete. Kuhn played guard on the team and was a shortstop on the baseball team which won a 1921 conference championship. He was known as a hitter but a star defensive player and was selected All-Southern in 1921 and 1922. Kuhn moved to Tampa after graduation, where he helped start the program at the University of Tampa. Doc, who played old cat as a child, attended school at Cathedral High School. At MBA, he won two football titles, first in 1915 as a sub and then in 1917 as a starter. Kuhn lost just a game as MBAs starting quarterback. According to Kuhns draft registration, he worked for DuPont as an engineer in Jacksonville. He also spent time at Camp Taylor and he was also a member of Phi Kappa Psi, and chaired the Vanderbilt University dances. In a close game, and Alabamas first victory over the Commodores, Kuhn substituted for now-injured quarterback Latham and he also had a 60-yard kick return, and accumulated 94 yards in all. According to The Atlanta Constitution, Doc Kuhn, subbing for the injured Latham, was the brilliant star of the day, Kuhn was practically unstoppable by the Alabamians and, time after time, threatened to lead the team to victory. In a 7–7 tie game against Virginia the following week, starting quarterback Kuhn was cited as an offensive standout, the Commodores tied for the 1921 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football championship with an overall record of 7–0–1, Kuhn and Frank Godchaux took turns starting at quarterback. The season opened with a 34–0 victory against the Middle Tennessee State Normal School of Murfreesboro, the Commodore, Vanderbilts yearbook, described the lopsided win, Practically the only thing of note was the aerial efficiency—Kuhn to Ryan and Kuhn to McCullough. The 1921 Texas team was considered possibly the best in Longhorns history, dan McGugin invoked the late former Vanderbilt quarterback Irby Curry, who was killed in the war, before the game. According to Edwin Popes book, Footballs Greatest Coaches, The Texas game, sparked by McGugins unforgettable oratory, was the big one, and Vandy got out of the year without a loss. In the last scoring drive, Kuhn completed a pass to end Tot McCullough at the 8-yard line to put the ball in scoring position for Godchaux after an offside penalty, the next week Vanderbilt played the Tennessee Volunteers on a wet Old Dudley Field
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Bill Wade
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William James Bill Wade was an American football quarterback who played professionally in the National Football League. He is considered one of the greatest athletes in Nashville and Vanderbilt University history, Wade is a member of the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame. He is best known for being the starting quarterback on the Chicago Bears 1963 NFL championship team and he was named the Southeastern Conferences Most Valuable Player and a second-team All-American. He was named MVP of the 1951 North-South Shrine Game in Miami, Wade also played in the Senior Bowl of 1952 and was selected to play in the College All-Star Game in Chicago. He was the first player selected in the 1952 NFL draft, quarterbacking the Rams for seven seasons, Wades best year personally was 1958, when he led the NFL in passing yards with 2,875. He was traded to the Bears in 1961 with teammates Del Shofner, Wade topped the league in 1962 in pass completions and attempts, and threw a still-franchise-record 466 yards on Nov 11 in Dallas. He was the first Bear to record four games with 300+ passing yards in a season, Wade was named to the Vanderbilt Athletics Hall of Fame as part of its inaugural class. Following eye surgery for glaucoma, Wade became legally blind and he added, Ive got a Bears cap on right now. He died on March 9,2016 in Nashville
