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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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Basketball
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Basketball is a non-contact team sport played on a rectangular court by two teams of five players each. The objective is to shoot a ball through a hoop 18 inches in diameter and 10 feet high that is mounted to a backboard at each end of the court. The game was invented in 1891 by Dr. James Naismith, a team can score a field goal by shooting the ball through the basket being defended by the opposition team during regular play. A field goal scores three points for the team if the player shoots from behind the three-point line. A team can also score via free throws, which are worth one point, the team with the most points at the end of the game wins, but additional time is mandated when the score is tied at the end of regulation. The ball can be advanced on the court by passing it to a teammate and it is a violation to lift, or drag, ones pivot foot without dribbling the ball, to carry it, or to hold the ball with both hands then resume dribbling. The game has many techniques for displaying skill—ball-handling, shooting, passing, dribbling, dunking, shot-blocking. The point guard directs the on court action of the team, implementing the coachs game plan, Basketball is one of the worlds most popular and widely viewed sports. Outside North America, the top clubs from national leagues qualify to continental championships such as the Euroleague, the FIBA Basketball World Cup attracts the top national teams from around the world. Each continent hosts regional competitions for teams, like EuroBasket. The FIBA Womens Basketball World Cup features the top womens basketball teams from continental championships. The main North American league is the WNBA, whereas the EuroLeague Women has been dominated by teams from the Russian Womens Basketball Premier League, in early December 1891, Canadian Dr. He sought a vigorous indoor game to keep his students occupied, after rejecting other ideas as either too rough or poorly suited to walled-in gymnasiums, he wrote the basic rules and nailed a peach basket onto a 10-foot elevated track. Basketball was originally played with a soccer ball and these laces could cause bounce passes and dribbling to be unpredictable. Eventually a lace-free ball construction method was invented, and this change to the game was endorsed by Naismith, dribbling was not part of the original game except for the bounce pass to teammates. Passing the ball was the means of ball movement. Dribbling was eventually introduced but limited by the shape of early balls. Dribbling only became a part of the game around the 1950s
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Baseball
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Baseball is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of nine players each, who take turns batting and fielding. A run is scored when a player advances around the bases, Players on the batting team take turns hitting against the pitcher of the fielding team, which tries to prevent runs by getting hitters out in any of several ways. A player on the team who reaches a base safely can later attempt to advance to subsequent bases during teammates turns batting. The teams switch between batting and fielding whenever the team records three outs. One turn batting for both teams, beginning with the team, constitutes an inning. A game is composed of nine innings, and the team with the number of runs at the end of the game wins. Baseball has no clock, although almost all games end in the ninth inning. Baseball evolved from older bat-and-ball games already being played in England by the mid-18th century and this game was brought by immigrants to North America, where the modern version developed. By the late 19th century, baseball was widely recognized as the sport of the United States. Baseball is now popular in North America and parts of Central and South America, the Caribbean, in the United States and Canada, professional Major League Baseball teams are divided into the National League and American League, each with three divisions, East, West, and Central. The major league champion is determined by playoffs that culminate in the World Series, the top level of play is similarly split in Japan between the Central and Pacific Leagues and in Cuba between the West League and East League. The evolution of baseball from older bat-and-ball games is difficult to trace with precision, a French manuscript from 1344 contains an illustration of clerics playing a game, possibly la soule, with similarities to baseball. Other old French games such as thèque, la balle au bâton, consensus once held that todays baseball is a North American development from the older game rounders, popular in Great Britain and Ireland. Baseball Before We Knew It, A Search for the Roots of the Game, by David Block, suggests that the game originated in England, recently uncovered historical evidence supports this position. Block argues that rounders and early baseball were actually regional variants of other. It has long believed that cricket also descended from such games. The earliest known reference to baseball is in a 1744 British publication, A Little Pretty Pocket-Book, David Block discovered that the first recorded game of Bass-Ball took place in 1749 in Surrey, and featured the Prince of Wales as a player. William Bray, an English lawyer, recorded a game of baseball on Easter Monday 1755 in Guildford and this early form of the game was apparently brought to Canada by English immigrants
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Oregon Ducks football
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The Oregon Ducks football program is a college football team for the University of Oregon, located in the U. S. state of Oregon. The team competes at the NCAA Division I level in the FBS and is a member of the Pac-12 Conference, known as the Ducks, the team was commonly called the Webfoots until the mid-1960s. The first football team was fielded in 1894, Oregon plays its home games at the 54,000 seat Autzen Stadium in Eugene, its main rivals are the Oregon State Beavers and the Washington Huskies. The Ducks and Beavers historically end each regular season with the Civil War rivalry game in late November, the football program began in 1894 and played its first game on March 24,1894, defeating Albany College 44–3 under head coach Cal Young. Cal Young left after that first game and J. A, church took over the coaching position in the fall for the rest of the season. Oregon finished the season with two losses and a tie, but went undefeated the following season, winning all four of its games under head coach Percy Benson. In 1899, the team left the state for the first time, playing the California Golden Bears in Berkeley. Oregons largest margin of victory came in 1910 when they defeated the University of Puget Sound 115–0, Bezdek, Oregons first truly professional coach, led the team from 1913 through 1917. A versatile motivator of athletes, during his tenure Bezdek was also the West Coast scout for the Pittsburgh Pirates, in the 1916 season, Oregon went undefeated with seven wins and one tie under Bezdek, shutting out all their opponents except California. They opened the season against Willamette University, defeating them 97–0, the game against Washington ended in a 0–0 tie. The Oregon football team defeated the heavily favored University of Pennsylvania Quakers 14–0, in 1918 Bezdek quit Oregon to become general manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates. He was succeeded by Shy Huntington, one of the heroes of the 1917 Rose Bowl, Oregon lost the 1920 Rose Bowl to Harvard University, 7–6. This would be the teams last bowl appearance until the 1948 Cotton Bowl, prince G. Prink Callison, Oregon native, alumnus, former player and coach of the freshman team, took over from Spears in 1932. Behind standout back Mike Mikulak and a defense, Callison led the 1933 Webfoots to a 9–1 mark and Pacific Coast Conference co-championship. This record would stand as the best in history until 2001. After the homegrown Callison retired in 1937, Oregon again hired a head coach. Oliver returned as coach after the war, eventually posting a mediocre 23–28–3 cumulative record. His 71–7 loss at Texas in 1941 on the day before the attack on Pearl Harbor stands as the most points allowed by any Oregon team, Oliver, in 1945, is the only coach to see his team lose twice to Oregon State in the same season
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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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Oregon Ducks men's basketball
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The Oregon Ducks mens basketball team is an intercollegiate basketball program that competes in the NCAA Division I and is a member of the Pac-12 Conference, representing the University of Oregon. The Ducks play their games at Matthew Knight Arena. Oregon, then coached by Howard Hobson, won the first NCAA mens basketball championship in 1939. The basketball team has appeared in the NCAA tournament 15 times and has won the championship six times. The University of Oregon mens basketball played its first season in 1902–03 with Charles Burden as the head coach. Only two games were played that season with Oregon losing both games, Oregon did not record a win until its fourth season in 1907 against Roseburg. The season ended with a record of 4–3, under Hugo Bezdek. Bezdek left after that season to coach at Arkansas until 1913 when he went back to Oregon to coach until 1917, during Bezdeks absence, the basketball team was coached largely by William Hayward, Oregons track coach. In 1923, William Reinhart took over as the head coach, Coach Reinhart suffered only one losing season at Oregon. Howard Hobson, an alumnus of the university, became the coach in 1935. His ideas were considered cutting edge during his years at Oregon and he ran a fast break offense little used by anyone else in the country at the time and his defenses were an unorthodox hybrid defense. He lobbied for the installment of a clock and three-point field goal years before they were first introduced. In 1939, the Oregon Ducks became the first team to win the NCAA Basketball Championship, sports editor L. H. Gregory coined the phrase Tall Firs to describe the Oregon players due to their taller stature compared to other teams in the country. The season started with a trip to the east coast for a series of games. The Ducks went 6–3 during that trip but gained experience for the remainder of the season. Oregon went 14–2 to claim the North Division title in the Pacific Coast Conference, the Ducks won two games straight to claim the conference title. The Ducks returned to San Francisco for the NCAA regional series where they defeated the Texas Longhorns in the first game 56–41 then the Oklahoma Sooners 55–37, the Ohio State Buckeyes had defeated Wake Forest and Villanova in their regional series to earn their right in the championship game. On March 27, Oregon and Ohio State squared off to claim the national title, Oregon emerged victorious to claim the first NCAA national championship trophy, defeating Ohio State 46–33
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Oregon Ducks baseball
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The Oregon Ducks baseball team represents the University of Oregon in NCAA Division I college baseball in the Pac-12 Conference. The head coach is George Horton and home games are played on campus at PK Park, Oregon played its first baseball game in 1877 and established the program in 1885. The UO team made one College World Series appearance, in 1954, after the 1981 season, baseball and three other varsity sports at Oregon were dropped by the university due to a budget crisis, and baseball became a club sport in March 1983. In July 2007, the university announced that it would field a varsity baseball team. In-state rival Oregon State had secured their second consecutive College World Series title a month earlier, in the Ducks first game in PK Park, they defeated the defending national champions, the Fresno State Bulldogs, 1–0 on a walk-off single by senior Andrew Schmidt. A sellout crowd of 2,777 was on hand for the game, the Ducks previously played baseball at Howe Field, south of McArthur Court, named in 1936 for Dr. Herbert Crombie Howe, the former chairman of the English department. Howe started teaching at UO in 1901 and was its original faculty representative to the Pacific Coast Conference in 1915, when the university dropped baseball after the 1981 season, the field was converted to use by the Ducks womens softball team in 1987. Softball was formerly played at Amazon Park, Baseball became a club sport in 1983 and Oregon was the only Pac-10 school without a varsity baseball program through 2008. Following the reinstatement of baseball, announced in 2007, the university built PK Park, directly northeast of Autzen Stadium, formerly paved parking spaces. It opened for the Ducks in 2009 and since 2010, the park is home for the minor league Eugene Emeralds of the short season Northwest League. The NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament started in 1947, the format of the tournament has changed through the years. Joe Gordon, Hall of Famer as a second baseman Dave Roberts Steve Baker Ray Smith Tom Dodd Zack Thornton List of NCAA Division I baseball programs Official website
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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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University of Oregon
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The University of Oregon is a public flagship research university in Eugene, Oregon. Founded in 1876, the institutions 295-acre campus is along the Willamette River, since July 2014, UO has been governed by the Board of Trustees of the University of Oregon. The university has a Carnegie Classification of highest research activity and has 21 research centers, UO was admitted to the Association of American Universities in 1969. UO offers 316 undergraduate and graduate programs in a wide range of disciplines. Additionally, the Graduate School oversees the universitys graduate and certificate programs, UO student-athletes compete as the Ducks and are part of the Pac-12 Conference in the National Collegiate Athletic Association. With eighteen varsity teams, the Oregon Ducks are best known for their team and track. The Oregon State Legislature established the university on October 12,1872, the residents of Eugene struggled to help finance the institution, holding numerous fundraising events such as strawberry festivals, church socials, and produce sales. They raised $27,500, enough to buy eighteen acres of land at a cost of $2,500, the doors officially opened in 1876 with the name of Oregon State University and Deady Hall as its sole building. The first year of enrollment contained 155 students taught by five faculty members, the first graduating class was in 1878, graduating five students. In 1881, the university was closed, it was $8,000 in debt before Henry Villard donated $7,000 to help pay for the debt. In 1913, and again in 1932, there were proposals to merge the university with what is now Oregon State University, during Prince Lucien Campbells tenure as president from 1902 to 1925, the university experienced tremendous growth. The budget, enrollment, facilities, and faculty members all grew several times its amount prior to his presidency, however, the University of Oregon lost its School of Engineering to Oregon Agricultural College, now known as Oregon State University. The Zorn-MacPherson Bill in 1932 proposed the University of Oregon and Oregon State College merge, the bill lost in a landslide vote of over 6 to 1. The University of Oregon Medical School was founded in 1887 in Portland, however, in 1974 it became an independent institution known as Oregon Health Sciences University. In 1969, the UO was admitted into the Association of American Universities, with contributions exceeding $100 million from benefactors such as Phil Knight and Lorry I. Lokey, the goal was exceeded by over $253 million. The University occupies over 80 buildings and these projects, among others, were commissioned in part to support current student enrollment as well as possible future increases. Effective July 1,2014, the University of Oregon became an independent public body governed by the Board of Trustees of the University of Oregon
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University of Pennsylvania
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The University of Pennsylvania is a private Ivy League research university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Incorporated as The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, Penn is one of 14 founding members of the Association of American Universities, the university coat of arms features a dolphin on the red chief, adopted directly from the Franklin familys own coat of arms. Penn was one of the first academic institutions to follow a multidisciplinary model pioneered by several European universities and it was also home to many other educational innovations. The first school of medicine in North America, the first collegiate school. With an endowment of $10.72 billion, Penn had the seventh largest endowment of all colleges in the United States, all of Penns schools exhibit very high research activity. In fiscal year 2015, Penns academic research budget was $851 million, over its history, the university has also produced many distinguished alumni. S. House of Representatives,8 signers of the United States Declaration of Independence, in addition, some 30 Nobel laureates,169 Guggenheim Fellows, and 80 members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, have been affiliated with Penn. In addition, Penn has produced a significant number of Fortune 500 CEOs, in 1740, a group of Philadelphians joined together to erect a great preaching hall for the traveling evangelist George Whitefield, who toured the American colonies delivering open air sermons. The building was designed and built by Edmund Woolley and was the largest building in the city at the time and it was initially planned to serve as a charity school as well, however, a lack of funds forced plans for the chapel and school to be suspended. According to Franklins autobiography, it was in 1743 when he first had the idea to establish an academy, however, Peters declined a casual inquiry from Franklin and nothing further was done for another six years. Unlike the other Colonial colleges that existed in 1749—Harvard, William and Mary, Yale, Franklin assembled a board of trustees from among the leading citizens of Philadelphia, the first such non-sectarian board in America. At the first meeting of the 24 members of the Board of Trustees the issue of where to locate the school was a prime concern. The original sponsors of the dormant building still owed considerable construction debts and asked Franklins group to assume their debts and, accordingly, on February 1,1750 the new board took over the building and trusts of the old board. On August 13,1751, the Academy of Philadelphia, using the hall at 4th and Arch Streets. A charity school also was chartered July 13,1753 in accordance with the intentions of the original New Building donors, June 16,1755, the College of Philadelphia was chartered, paving the way for the addition of undergraduate instruction. All three schools shared the same Board of Trustees and were considered to be part of the same institution, the institution of higher learning was known as the College of Philadelphia from 1755 to 1779. In 1779, not trusting then-provost the Rev. William Smiths Loyalist tendencies, the result was a schism, with Smith continuing to operate an attenuated version of the College of Philadelphia. In 1791 the Legislature issued a new charter, merging the two institutions into a new University of Pennsylvania with twelve men from each institution on the new Board of Trustees
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Harvard Crimson football
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The Harvard Crimson football program represents Harvard University in college football at the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision. Harvards football program is one of the oldest in the world, Harvard is the eighth winningest team in NCAA Division I football history. The Harvard Crimson was one of the dominant forces in the days of intercollegiate football. In both 1919 and 1920, headed by All-American brothers Arnold Horween and Ralph Horween, Harvard was undefeated, the team won the 1920 Rose Bowl against the University of Oregon, 7–6. It was the bowl appearance in Harvard history. In the forty-year period from 1889 to 1928, Harvard had more than 80 first-team All-American selections, under head coach Percy Haughton, Harvard had three consecutive undefeated seasons from 1912 to 1914, including two perfect seasons in 1912 and 1913. Harvard claims the national championships, The NCAA decided to split Division I into two subdivisions in 1978, then called I-A for larger schools, and I-AA for the smaller ones. In 1982, the NCAA created a rule that stated an average attendance must be at least 15,000 to qualify for I-A membership. This forced the hand, as only some of the member schools met the attendance qualification. The Crimson are behind Penn and Dartmouths 18 Ivy League Football Championships, Harvard and Yale have been competing against each other in football since 1875. The annual rivalry game between the two schools, known as The Game, is played in November at the end of the football season, as of 2015, Yale led the series 65-59-8. The Game is the second oldest continuing rivalry and also the third most-played rivalry game in football history, after the Lehigh–Lafayette Rivalry. Sports Illustrated On Campus rated the Harvard–Yale rivalry the sixth-best in college athletics in 2003, ted Kennedy played football for Harvard and caught a touchdown pass in the 1955 Harvard/Yale game. In 2006, Yale ended a losing streak against Harvard. That Harvard winning streak was third longest in the history of the series, after Yales 1902–1907 six-game winning streak, Harvard has since beaten Yale in 2007,2008,2009,2010,2011,2012,2013,2014 and 2015. The Game is significant for historical reasons as the rules of The Game soon were adopted by other schools. Footballs rules, conventions, and equipment, as well as elements of such as the mascot and fight song, include many elements pioneered or nurtured at Harvard. Harvard Stadium is a football stadium in the Allston neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts
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1918 college football season
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The 1918 NCAA football season had no clear-cut champion, with the Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book listing Michigan and Pittsburgh as national champions. Perhaps the highest profile game was a highly publicized War Charities benefit staged at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh in front of many of the top sports writers. The game pitted John Heismans undefeated, unscored upon, and defending national champion Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets against Pop Warners Pittsburgh Panthers who were sitting on a 30 game win streak. The Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 saw the implementation of quarantines that eliminated much of that college football season. Great Lakes Navy would defeat Mare Island Marines 17-7 in the 1919 Rose Bowl, the following is a potentially incomplete list of conference standings, The consensus All-America team included, Receptions leader, Bernard Kirk, Notre Dame,7
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1921 college football season
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Only California, Cornell, and Lafayette claim national championships for the 1921 season. Andy Smiths Pacific Coast Conference champion Wonder Team at California continued on its streak since 1920, eastern power Cornell was coached by Gil Dobie and led by one of the sports great backfields with George Pfann, Eddie Kaw, Floyd Ramsey, and Charles E. Cassidy. Jock Sutherlands Lafayette Maroons were led on the line by Frank Schwab, big Ten champion Iowa upset Notre Dame 10–7. 1921 was the last season for the old Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association, vanderbilt tied co-champion Georgia on an onside kick. On October 6, Centre upset Harvard 6–0 in what is considered one of the greatest upsets in college football history. Overjoyed students painted the impossible formula C6H0 on everything in sight, Georgia Tech also claimed a conference title. The 1922 Rose Bowl was fought to a tie, between California and Washington & Jefferson, in the last Rose Bowl to be played at Tournament Park. W&J is the smallest school to play in a Rose Bowl. Pittsburgh football game, the first college game to be broadcast live on radio. Today, college football on radio is common for every game in every division. On October 29, Centre College beat Harvard 6 to 0 in what is considered one of the greatest upsets in college football history. Overjoyed students painted the impossible formula C6H0 on everything in sight, in the 1922 Rose Bowl, the heavily favored California Golden Bears played Washington & Jefferson to a scoreless tie
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1922 college football season
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California, Cornell, and Princeton were all picked by multiple selectors. Andy Smiths Pacific Coast Conference champion Wonder Team at California continued on its streak since 1920, Eastern power Cornell was coached by Gil Dobie and led by one of the sports great backfields with George Pfann, Eddie Kaw, Floyd Ramsey, and Charles E. Cassidy. Bill Ropers Princeton team was dubbed the team of destiny by Grantland Rice after defeating Chicago 21–18 in the first game nationally broadcast on radio, today, college football on radio is common for nearly every game in every division. On the same day, Cal defeated USC at the dedication of Rose Bowl Stadium, the Southern Conference would begin its first season of football in 1922. Vanderbilt tied with North Carolina and Georgia Tech for the conference championship, the Commodores tied Michigan 0–0 on October 14 at the dedication of Dudley Field, the Souths first permanent college football stadium. On the same day, Big Ten champion Iowa upset Yale, the 1923 Rose Bowl at seasons end was the first called the Rose Bowl and was held in the newly constructed stadium. In the first bowl appearance for either team, USC beat Penn State 14–3, the 1922 season included the new try for a point rule. Vanderbilt opened its season with a 38-0 win over Middle Tennessee Normal, Baylor beat North Texas 55-0 California beat Santa Clara 45-14. October 7 Princeton defeated Virginia 5-0, Harvard beat Holy Cross 20-0, Iowa beat Knox College 61-0, and Michigan defeated Case 48-0. October 14 Princeton beat Colgate 10-0, Harvard defeated Bowdoin 15-0, in the first game between Eastern and Western teams of the college football season, Iowa dominated Yale. Yale lost to a Western team for the first time ever, in Nashville, Michigan and Vanderbilt played to a 0-0 tie at the inaugural game for Dudley Field, the first dedicated football-only stadium in the South in the style of the Eastern schools. After beating Duke 20-0 in a Thursday game, North Carolina beat South Carolina, Centre gave VPI its only loss of the season. October 21 Harvard had been shocked the year before in a 6-0 upset by the Prayin Colonels of Centre College of Danville, in the rematch, the Crimson beat Centre 24-10. Princeton recorded another shutout, blanking Maryland 26-0, in Dallas, Vanderbilt and Texas, both unbeaten, met at the State Fair, with the Commodores winning 20-10. In Houston, Baylor defeated Rice 31-0, North Carolina won at NC State, 14-9. Iowa won at Illinois 8-7, and Michigan won at Ohio State 19-0, In St. Louis, Drake beat Washington University, 31-7 Baylor beat Arkansas 60-13 California shut out the Olympic Club team, 25-0. October 28 In the first football game ever broadcast nationally on the radio Princeton traveled to the University of Chicago for a rematch of Chicagos 1921 win, the game was witnessed by 32,000 fans, and listened to on New Yorks WEAF radio station. John Thomas ran for three touchdowns and Chicagos Maroons led 18-7 as the quarter began, but a 40-yard fumble return closed the gap
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International Standard Book Number
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The International Standard Book Number is a unique numeric commercial book identifier. An ISBN is assigned to each edition and variation of a book, for example, an e-book, a paperback and a hardcover edition of the same book would each have a different ISBN. The ISBN is 13 digits long if assigned on or after 1 January 2007, the method of assigning an ISBN is nation-based and varies from country to country, often depending on how large the publishing industry is within a country. The initial ISBN configuration of recognition was generated in 1967 based upon the 9-digit Standard Book Numbering created in 1966, the 10-digit ISBN format was developed by the International Organization for Standardization and was published in 1970 as international standard ISO2108. Occasionally, a book may appear without a printed ISBN if it is printed privately or the author does not follow the usual ISBN procedure, however, this can be rectified later. Another identifier, the International Standard Serial Number, identifies periodical publications such as magazines, the ISBN configuration of recognition was generated in 1967 in the United Kingdom by David Whitaker and in 1968 in the US by Emery Koltay. The 10-digit ISBN format was developed by the International Organization for Standardization and was published in 1970 as international standard ISO2108, the United Kingdom continued to use the 9-digit SBN code until 1974. The ISO on-line facility only refers back to 1978, an SBN may be converted to an ISBN by prefixing the digit 0. For example, the edition of Mr. J. G. Reeder Returns, published by Hodder in 1965, has SBN340013818 -340 indicating the publisher,01381 their serial number. This can be converted to ISBN 0-340-01381-8, the check digit does not need to be re-calculated, since 1 January 2007, ISBNs have contained 13 digits, a format that is compatible with Bookland European Article Number EAN-13s. An ISBN is assigned to each edition and variation of a book, for example, an ebook, a paperback, and a hardcover edition of the same book would each have a different ISBN. The ISBN is 13 digits long if assigned on or after 1 January 2007, a 13-digit ISBN can be separated into its parts, and when this is done it is customary to separate the parts with hyphens or spaces. Separating the parts of a 10-digit ISBN is also done with either hyphens or spaces, figuring out how to correctly separate a given ISBN number is complicated, because most of the parts do not use a fixed number of digits. ISBN issuance is country-specific, in that ISBNs are issued by the ISBN registration agency that is responsible for country or territory regardless of the publication language. Some ISBN registration agencies are based in national libraries or within ministries of culture, in other cases, the ISBN registration service is provided by organisations such as bibliographic data providers that are not government funded. In Canada, ISBNs are issued at no cost with the purpose of encouraging Canadian culture. In the United Kingdom, United States, and some countries, where the service is provided by non-government-funded organisations. Australia, ISBNs are issued by the library services agency Thorpe-Bowker
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Wayback Machine
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The Internet Archive launched the Wayback Machine in October 2001. It was set up by Brewster Kahle and Bruce Gilliat, and is maintained with content from Alexa Internet, the service enables users to see archived versions of web pages across time, which the archive calls a three dimensional index. Since 1996, the Wayback Machine has been archiving cached pages of websites onto its large cluster of Linux nodes and it revisits sites every few weeks or months and archives a new version. Sites can also be captured on the fly by visitors who enter the sites URL into a search box, the intent is to capture and archive content that otherwise would be lost whenever a site is changed or closed down. The overall vision of the machines creators is to archive the entire Internet, the name Wayback Machine was chosen as a reference to the WABAC machine, a time-traveling device used by the characters Mr. Peabody and Sherman in The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show, an animated cartoon. These crawlers also respect the robots exclusion standard for websites whose owners opt for them not to appear in search results or be cached, to overcome inconsistencies in partially cached websites, Archive-It. Information had been kept on digital tape for five years, with Kahle occasionally allowing researchers, when the archive reached its fifth anniversary, it was unveiled and opened to the public in a ceremony at the University of California, Berkeley. Snapshots usually become more than six months after they are archived or, in some cases, even later. The frequency of snapshots is variable, so not all tracked website updates are recorded, Sometimes there are intervals of several weeks or years between snapshots. After August 2008 sites had to be listed on the Open Directory in order to be included. As of 2009, the Wayback Machine contained approximately three petabytes of data and was growing at a rate of 100 terabytes each month, the growth rate reported in 2003 was 12 terabytes/month, the data is stored on PetaBox rack systems manufactured by Capricorn Technologies. In 2009, the Internet Archive migrated its customized storage architecture to Sun Open Storage, in 2011 a new, improved version of the Wayback Machine, with an updated interface and fresher index of archived content, was made available for public testing. The index driving the classic Wayback Machine only has a bit of material past 2008. In January 2013, the company announced a ground-breaking milestone of 240 billion URLs, in October 2013, the company announced the Save a Page feature which allows any Internet user to archive the contents of a URL. This became a threat of abuse by the service for hosting malicious binaries, as of December 2014, the Wayback Machine contained almost nine petabytes of data and was growing at a rate of about 20 terabytes each week. Between October 2013 and March 2015 the websites global Alexa rank changed from 162 to 208, in a 2009 case, Netbula, LLC v. Chordiant Software Inc. defendant Chordiant filed a motion to compel Netbula to disable the robots. Netbula objected to the motion on the ground that defendants were asking to alter Netbulas website, in an October 2004 case, Telewizja Polska USA, Inc. v. Echostar Satellite, No.02 C3293,65 Fed. 673, a litigant attempted to use the Wayback Machine archives as a source of admissible evidence, Telewizja Polska is the provider of TVP Polonia and EchoStar operates the Dish Network
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Norm Van Brocklin
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Norman Mack Van Brocklin, nicknamed The Dutchman, was an American football quarterback, punter, and coach in the National Football League. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1971, born in Parade, South Dakota, Van Brocklin was one of nine children of Mack and Ethel Van Brocklin. The family moved to Northern California and settled in Walnut Creek, Van Brocklin was a three-sport standout at Acalanes High School in Lafayette, where he quarterbacked the football team to a 5-3 record as a sophomore and a 4-2-2 record as a junior. He served in the U. S. Navy from 1943 through 1945, following World War II, Van Brocklin followed two former high school teammates north and enrolled at the University of Oregon in Eugene. He became the quarterback in 1947 under first-year head coach Jim Aiken. In 1948, Oregon tied with California for the title of the Pacific Coast Conference, California was undefeated overall, and Oregons only loss was at undefeated Michigan, that years national champions, and the Ducks had seven victories in the PCC to Cals six. Oregon did not go to the Rose Bowl, however, because Cal was voted by the schools to represent the PCC in the game. Oregon need only a 5-5 tie vote, as Cal had been to the more recently. Oregon had opted for a game, but California declined. Among the Cal voters was the University of Washington, which elevated the intensity of the Oregon-Washington rivalry, breaking with tradition, the PCC allowed Oregon to accept an invitation to play SMU in the Cotton Bowl in Dallas. It was the first time that a Pacific Coast team played in a bowl game other than the Rose Bowl. Both Oregon and California lost their New Years Day bowl games and that season, Van Brocklin was honored with an All-America selection and finished sixth in the Heisman Trophy voting. Coincidentally, the Heisman Trophy winner that year was SMU running back Doak Walker, both Walker and Van Brocklin got Outstanding Player recognition for their performance in the Cotton Bowl Classic. Van Brocklin left Oregon for the NFL with one remaining year of college eligibility, at that time, a player was not allowed to join the NFL until four years after graduating from high school. Though he had only been at the University of Oregon for three years, he was due to his time in the Navy during World War II. At age 23, he completed his bachelors degree in June 1949, Van Brocklin was selected 37th overall in the 1949 NFL Draft, taken in the fourth round by the Los Angeles Rams. Teams were not sure if he planned to play the 1949 season in college or not, so he fell in the draft, Van Brocklin signed with the Rams in July and joined a team that already had a star quarterback, Bob Waterfield. Beginning in 1950, new Rams coach Joe Stydahar solved his problem by platooning Waterfield, the 1950 Rams scored a then-record 466 points with a high octane passing attack featuring Tom Fears and Elroy Crazy Legs Hirsch
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Dan Fouts
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Daniel Francis Fouts is a former American football quarterback who played in the National Football League. Fouts played his professional career with the San Diego Chargers from 1973 through 1987. He was one of the most prolific passing quarterbacks during the 1970s and 1980s and he led the NFL in passing yards four straight years from 1979 to 1982, and became the first player in history to throw for 4,000 yards in three consecutive seasons. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1993 and he is currently a color analyst for NFL games on CBS television and Dial Global radio. Dan is the son of Bay Area Radio Hall of Famer Bob Fouts, Fouts was born in San Francisco, California. He decided to transfer to St. Ignatius College Preparatory for his two years of high school. Fouts was somewhat of an unknown when he accepted an offer from the University of Oregon to play for the Oregon Ducks football team. Things were quite different after the All-Pac-8 quarterbacks career where he set 19 school records, including those for career passing yardage and he was inducted into the University of Oregon Hall of Fame in 1992. 1970, 188/361 for 2,390 yards with 16 TD vs 24 INT,1971, 123/247 for 1,564 yards with 9 TD vs 11 INT. 1972, 171/348 for 2,041 yards with 12 TD vs 19 INT, drafted in the third round in 1973, Fouts helped lead the Chargers to the playoffs from 1979 to 1982 and twice to the AFC title game. He led the four times in passing yards, ending his career with over 40,000. Fouts was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1993, Fouts was a 6-time Pro Bowl selection and compiled passer ratings over 90.0 for a 3-year stretch. His career high of 4,802 passing yards during the 1981 season was an NFL record at the time. Fouts set NFL season passing records in three consecutive seasons from 1979 to 1981 with totals of 4,082,4,715. He broke Joe Namaths record of 4,007 set in 1967, the Chargers in 1979 were the first AFC Western Division champion to run more passing plays then rushing. In 1982, a season shortened to 9 games because of a strike, Fouts averaged 320 yards passing per game and that season, he was named the NFLs Most Valuable Player by Pro Football Writers Association and Newspaper Enterprise Association. He finished second in the Associated Press poll behind Mark Moseley, however, AP voted him the leagues Offensive MVP, as did Pro Football Weekly. Fouts garnered All-Pro selections in both 1979 and 1982, while also being named 2nd Team All-Pro in 1980 and 1985, in addition Fouts was also named 2nd Team All-AFC in 1981 and 1983
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Norv Turner
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Norval Eugene Turner is an American football coach who was last the offensive coordinator for the Minnesota Vikings of the National Football League before resigning on November 2,2016. He has served as coach of the Washington Redskins, Oakland Raiders. He is the brother of Ron Turner, the former head coach at the University of Illinois. Turner has the most wins of any NFL head coach with a losing record. His 114–122–1 record is tied for 31st-most wins by a coach in NFL history. Born at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, Turner played high school football at Alhambra High School in Martinez, California. After serving as a assistant coach at Oregon in 1975, Turner was an assistant coach for the USC Trojans in 1976, hired by head coach John Robinson. He stayed with the Trojans for nine seasons, then rejoined Robinson in the NFL with the Los Angeles Rams in 1985, Turner was an assistant with the Rams for six seasons, through 1990. Turner was the offensive coordinator with the Dallas Cowboys on Jimmy Johnsons staff when Dallas won back-to-back Super Bowls in 1992 and 1993, Turner got much of the credit for not only their success, but for helping shape quarterback Troy Aikman into a Hall of Fame player. Upon arriving in Dallas, Turner took over an offense that was dead last in the NFL in total yards averaging 255.1 yds/gm and scoring 15.2 pts/gm, his impact was immediate. In 1991 the offense jumped to 9th in total yds with 318. 8/gm and scoring 21. 4/gm, Emmitt Smith led the NFL in rushing all 3 years under Norv Turner, and was the MVP of Super Bowl XXVIII. No team in the Super Bowl era had won with the leading rusher before Emmitt Smith under Turner in 1992 and 1993. Troy Aikman had a record of 7–18 as a starter before Turners arrival, then 31–11 in the regular season, Michael Irvin never finished lower than 2nd in the NFL in receiving yards under Norv. In 1994, following his success with the Cowboys, Turner was hired as the coach of the Washington Redskins. In seven seasons with the Redskins, he went 49–59–1, in 1996 Turner led the Redskins to a 7–1 start but finished the season 9–7. They made the only once, in 1999, where they lost to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the second round. This left Turner with the distinction of being the rare NFL head coach in the era to be fired midway through a season with a winning record. Turner was replaced for the final 3 regular season games by Interim Head Coach Terry Robiskie, following his tenure with the Redskins, Turner went on to serve as offensive coordinator for the San Diego Chargers in 2001 and for the Miami Dolphins in 2002 and 2003
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Akili Smith
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Kabisa Akili Maradufu Smith is a former American and Canadian football quarterback. He was drafted by the Cincinnati Bengals in the first round of the 1999 NFL Draft and he played college football at Oregon. Smith also played for the Green Bay Packers, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Frankfurt Galaxy, given the name Kabisa Akili Maradufu Smith by his parents Glorida Bryant and Ray Smith, Akili Smith was born in San Diego, California. Smith attended Abraham Lincoln High School in San Diego, the mater of Marcus Allen. Smith was drafted by the Pittsburgh Pirates in the round of the 1993 Major League Baseball draft. He played for the Gulf Coast League Pirates of the Gulf Coast League from 1993–1994, due to low SAT scores, he had to attend Grossmont College, a junior college in the San Diego area for two years, prior to transferring to the University of Oregon. Smith came to the foreground of draft discussions because of his performance in his season at Oregon. In the 1999 NFL Draft, a year in which five quarterbacks were drafted in the first round, Smith was the quarterback and third player selected overall. Smith scored a 16 out of 50 on the NFL-administered Wonderlic test when he first took the exam in 1998 and his agent Leigh Steinberg hired a tutor to help improve his score for the 1999 scouting combine, and he scored a 37 on the second try. Prior to the draft, there was an effort by New Orleans Saints head coach Mike Ditka, the final offer, which was refused by Bengals management, was for nine draft picks, several extra in that year as well as many the next year. Instead of taking the trade, the Bengals stayed with their decision to draft Smith. Smith missed a portion of training camp during his rookie season in 1999 due to contract disputes. On August 24,1999, he signed a contract worth up to $56 million with a $10.8 million signing bonus. Despite showing athleticism in his games, he failed to grasp the Bengals playbook fully. His offensive coordinator from 2001–2002, Bob Bratkowski, said Smith wasnt as diligent as he should have been regarding his film, in 2003, Smith tried out for the Green Bay Packers, as Brett Favres backup. He was, however, unsuccessful there and was later released, in 2005, he was released by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers after a stint in NFL Europe where he started four games for the Frankfurt Galaxy. After an unimpressive debut in a game against the Edmonton Eskimos. In his first regular season action, replacing Burris in the quarter on July 12
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A. J. Feeley
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Adam Joshua Feeley is a former American football quarterback. He was drafted by the Philadelphia Eagles in the round of the 2001 NFL Draft. He played college football for the University of Oregon and he was also a member of the Miami Dolphins, San Diego Chargers, and Carolina Panthers. Feeley played high school football at Ontario High School as a quarterback in Ontario, in four years, he passed for 5,428 yards and 59 touchdowns. In addition to football, he played baseball and basketball. He opted, however, to college football for the Oregon Ducks. Feeley was a four-year letterman at Oregon, and saw most of his time in his sophomore. He was a nominee for the Davey OBrien Award as a junior, however, during most of his senior year, he was a backup to starter Joey Harrington, who was drafted by the Detroit Lions. Feeley was taken in the round of the 2001 NFL Draft by the Philadelphia Eagles. He spent his year in Philadelphia as a third-stringer, backing up Donovan McNabb. Feeley surprisingly helped lead the Eagles to four wins. With McNabb playing the entire 2003 season injury-free, Feeley was not called upon, however, he showed enough in the previous two seasons to garner interest around the league. Feeley was traded to the Miami Dolphins in March 2004 in exchange for Miamis 2005 second round pick, Feeley was set to compete for the Dolphins starting quarterback job with Jay Fiedler, however he and Fiedler traded starts throughout the season. The Dolphins season was considered a disaster and their star running back Ricky Williams retired prior to the season after a failed drug test, and head coach Dave Wannstedt resigned from the team following a 1-9 start. Feeley would under-perform as well, in 11 games, Feeley threw 11 touchdowns against 15 interceptions, Feeley would help produce a few bright spots on the year. Following the 1-9 start to enter their bye week, Feeley was given the start in the six games, going 3-3. With the Dolphins trailing by 11 with just 3,59 to play, the game was significant, as the 14-2 Patriots would miss out on homefield advantage throughout the playoffs against the 15-1 Steelers. It was also the last time the Patriots would lose that season, due to his strong play to end the season, Feeley was named the starting quarterback going into the season by new coach Nick Saban
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Joey Harrington
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John Joseph Joey Harrington Jr. is a former American football quarterback. He was drafted by the Detroit Lions third overall in the 2002 NFL Draft and he played college football at Oregon. Harrington also played for the Miami Dolphins, Atlanta Falcons, Harrington was born and raised in Portland, Oregon. He graduated from Central Catholic High School in Portland, and finished his school career with more than 4,200 yards and 50 touchdowns rushing and passing. Harrington is a graduate of the University of Oregon, and was a starter on the Oregon Ducks football team. A Business Administration major with a 3.23 GPA, Harringtons 7,121 yards of total offense rank third in University of Oregon history. Harrington finished fourth in the voting for the Heisman Trophy in 2001 and he earned numerous honors, including first-team All-American, Pac-10 Offensive Player of the Year, and second-team honors from The Sporting News. He was one of five finalists for the Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award in 2001, EA Sports selected him for the cover of the 2003 edition of their NCAA Football video game series. Harrington was named player of the game. Harrington was selected by the Detroit Lions with the third overall in the 2002 NFL Draft. He was named the 2002 recipient of the Detroit Lions/Detroit Sports Broadcasters Association Rookie of the Year Award, Harringtons career in Detroit was largely unsuccessful. Harringtons best season as a Lion came in 2004, when he threw for 19 touchdowns and 12 interceptions, the Lions started the season with a 4–2 record, but Harrington led the team to only two more wins the rest of the season. The Lions finished 6–10 and missed the playoffs for the season in a row. On October 23,2005, Mariucci chose to bench Harrington in favour of veteran Jeff Garcia for the game against the Cleveland Browns to try to provide a spark to the teams 2–3 start. The Lions won 13–10, and Garcia rushed for Detroits only touchdown, after yet another dismal offensive performance, Mariucci declared that Garcia would remain the starter. That marked the first time since the 2002 season that Harrington did not appear in a Lions game, Harrington regained the starting role the week after Garcia threw a game-ending interception returned for a touchdown in overtime against Chicago. Harrington started again for Detroit on November 13,2005, against the Arizona Cardinals, Harrington was voted by Lions fans as their Offensive Player of the Year, according to the Lions official website. Harrington started the 2006 season as a backup behind new Dolphins quarterback Daunte Culpepper, during his tenure with the Lions, Harrington started 55 games and had a record of 18 wins and 37 losses
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Kellen Clemens
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Kellen Vincent Clemens is an American football quarterback for the Los Angeles Chargers of the National Football League. He was selected by the New York Jets in the round of the 2006 NFL Draft. He has also been a member of the Washington Redskins, Houston Texans, born and raised in Burns in eastern Oregon, Clemens played high school football for the Burns Hilanders and led them to the Oregon state 3A championship game in 1999. In his high school career he threw for a state-record 8,646 yards and 102 TD and he was coached by Terry Graham using the run and shoot offense. Clemens played college football at the University of Oregon in Eugene, Clemens posted 3 rushing touchdowns,3 passing touchdowns and a career-best 437 passing yards in a road victory over Washington State as a junior. As a senior in 2005, he broke his ankle playing against Arizona. Despite missing remaining three games of the season, Clemens finished 2005 with 2,406 passing yards,19 touchdowns,4 interceptions, and he finished his Oregon career with 7,555 passing yards. Source, Clemens was selected by the New York Jets in the round of the 2006 NFL Draft. A healthy Pennington resulted in playing time for Clemens in 2006. He entered in a Game 13 loss to the Buffalo Bills, rushed once for 8 yards and he then made NFL debut in relief appearance against the Jacksonville Jaguars, recording his first career pass attempt and rushing once for 2 yards. He recorded only two attempts and 0 completions in his rookie season, Clemens made his first career start in Week 2 of the 2007 season. His effectiveness was minimized by the Ravenss defense for the first three quarters, with the Jets trailing 20-3 at one point, however, in the fourth quarter, Clemens led the Jets on a scoring drive that cut Baltimores lead to 20-13. On the last drive, he attempted what would have been a touchdown pass to Jets wide receiver Justin McCareins. His next appearance came in week 8 against the Buffalo Bills, a struggling Pennington was pulled by head coach Eric Mangini in the middle of the fourth quarter and replaced by Clemens. Clemens led two drives against the Buffalo defense, down 13-3 and pressed for time, Clemens attempted to quickly move the Jets offense down the field but was intercepted twice. The following day, on October 29,2007, Clemens was named the quarterback for the next game against the Washington Redskins. In 2008, Clemens was only on the field to five passes as the backup to Brett Favre. When Mike Nugent, the Jetss kicker, injured his thigh in the September 7th game against the Miami Dolphins, Clemens filled in as the teams placekicker, on December 3, Clemens was forced to come in against the Buffalo Bills after Mark Sanchez sprained his PCL
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Dennis Dixon
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Dennis Lee Dixon, Jr. is a retired American football quarterback. He was drafted by the Pittsburgh Steelers in the round of the 2008 NFL Draft. He played college football at the University of Oregon, Dixon had a short professional baseball career, playing for the GCL Braves and the Danville Braves in 2007. He was a member of the Baltimore Ravens practice squad during their 2012 championship season, Dixon was the starting quarterback for San Leandro High Schools football team beginning his sophomore year. In his senior season of 2002, Dixon threw for 2,426 yards and 30 touchdowns, Dixon was a consensus 4-star recruit, and was ranked among the top passing and rushing quarterbacks in the nation. He eventually decided to attend the University of Oregon, stating that I am going to Oregon with only one purpose, Dixon was also a highly recruited baseball player, and was initially drafted by the Cincinnati Reds in the 20th round of the 2003 Major League Baseball Draft. However, he did not sign because he wanted to go to college, Dixon opted to grayshirt for the 2003 season and played his freshman season in 2004 behind Kellen Clemens. He appeared in six games, passing for 73 and rushing for 40 yards, in his sophomore season of 2005, he was expected to play primarily in a backup role during Clemenss senior season. However, against Arizona, Clemens broke his ankle, and Dixon came into the game, prior to his junior season in 2006, Dixon was named full-time starter by head coach Mike Bellotti. He led the Ducks to a 4-0 start, including a 34-33 comeback victory over the Oklahoma Sooners, after a win over Arizona State, the Ducks lost 48-24 to Cal before Dixons hometown crowd. After being benched in favor of Brady Leaf, Oregon went on to three of their four final games and finished with a 7-6 record. Despite his shortened season, Dixon still finished the fourth in the conference in total offense. Dixon was named the league’s second-team academic all-conference quarterback, in June 2007, he graduated from Oregon with a degree in sociology and a 3.27 grade point average. In 2007, Bellotti again named Dixon, now a senior, the season started off quickly for Dixon against Houston, in which Dixon accumulated 141 yards rushing, the most ever by an Oregon quarterback. The following week against Michigan, Dixon threw for 3 touchdowns and ran for another, Dixon was named Pac-10 Offensive Player of the Week and USA Today National Player of the Week. In the next two games, he led the Ducks to big wins over Fresno State, and Stanford, wins in the following weeks over Pac-10 powers USC and Arizona State pushed Oregon to a #2 ranking in the BCS poll and first place in the Pac-10. During the Arizona State game, he left the game with a knee injury, but was cleared to play two weeks later against Arizona. In the first quarter of game, he ran 39 yards for a touchdown, but a few plays later, his left knee buckled and he left the game because of the injury
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Jeremiah Masoli
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Jeremiah Taeatafa Masoli is a Canadian football quarterback for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats of the Canadian Football League. He was signed by the San Francisco 49ers of the NFL as a free agent in 2011. He played college football at the City College of San Francisco, University of Oregon, Masoli transferred from the City College of San Francisco to the University of Oregon in 2008. In 2008 for the Ducks, Masoli emerged from the 3rd string quarterback to starter as injuries plagued the depth chart and he threw for 13 touchdowns and 5 interceptions, while also rushing for 10 touchdowns. His 714 rushing yards in 2008 set an Oregon record for quarterbacks, Masoli led the team to a 42-31 victory against Oklahoma State in the 2008 Holiday Bowl. Masoli was named to the Davey OBrien Award watch list for the 2009 college football season and he also appeared on the cover of a regional August 2009 issue of Sports Illustrated along with center Jordan Holmes. In October 2009, Masoli helped lead the #10 Ducks to an upset over the then #4 USC Trojans with 222 passing yards,164 rushing yards and two touchdowns. Masoli helped the Ducks win the Pac-10 Championship, advancing them to the Rose Bowl where they lost to the Ohio State Buckeyes 26-17, Masoli was 9/20 passing with 81 yards and an interception, while rushing for 9 yards and a touchdown. For the season, he completed 177 of 305 passes for 2,147 yards and 15 touchdowns and his 2,815 yards of total offense stands eighth on the schools single-season list. On January 25,2010, Masoli and teammate Garrett Embry were identified as suspects in a theft on the University of Oregon campus, on March 12,2010, Masoli pleaded guilty to second-degree burglary, receiving 12 months probation. Masoli was then suspended for the entire 2010 season by head coach Chip Kelly, in June,2010, Masoli was cited for misdemeanor drug and traffic offenses, and was dismissed from the team. He later pleaded guilty to possession and a moving violation stemming from the traffic stop. Prior to his being kicked off the team, he would have been eligible to play in the 2011 season had he satisfied the requirements set forth by Kelly. Media outlets reported on July 25,2010, that Masoli had sent his scholarship release papers to a number of schools, the report included Ole Miss rival Mississippi State, Hawaii, UNLV, Louisiana Tech, and Syracuse. On August 31,2010, the NCAA denied Jeremiah Masolis waiver for immediate eligibility at Ole Miss, in a press release, the NCAA stated that the transfer exception cited in Masolis case is intended for students pursuing new academic study, not avoiding disciplinary punishments. Ole Miss appealed the decision, and school officials expected a response from the NCAA before Ole Misss second game of 2010. Ole Miss coach Houston Nutt expressed his disagreement with the NCAAs ruling, on September 3,2010, the ad hoc NCAA Subcommittee for Legislative Relief granted Ole Misss appeal, allowing Masoli to play immediately in the 2010 home opener versus Jacksonville State University. For the season at Ole Miss, Masoli passed for 2039 yards, rushed 121 times for 544 yards and 6 TDs, at the Ole Miss Spring game on 4/9/11, Jeremiah Masoli was honored with the 2010 Leadership Award from the Birmingham Alumni Club
