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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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West Virginia Mountaineers football
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The West Virginia Mountaineers football team represents West Virginia University in the NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision of college football. Dana Holgorsen is WVUs current head coach, the 33rd in the programs history, West Virginia plays its home games on Mountaineer Field at Milan Puskar Stadium on the campus of West Virginia University in Morgantown, West Virginia. The Mountaineers compete in the Big 12 Conference, West Virginia was originally classified as a College Division school in the 1937 season, and joined the University Division, forerunner of Division I, in 1939. It has been a member of Division I FBS since 1978, the Mountaineers have registered 82 winning seasons in their history, including one unbeaten season and nine seasons with at least ten wins. The Mountaineers have won or shared a total of 15 conference championships, including eight Southern Conference titles, the West Virginia University football program traces its origin back to November 28,1891 when its first team fell to Washington & Jefferson 72–0 on a converted cow pasture. Despite its humble beginning, West Virginia enjoyed a 25–23–3 overall record prior to 1900, the early 1900s brought about early successes for the program, namely during the 1903 and 1905 seasons when WVU posted records of 7–1 and 8–1 respectively. WVU produced a 6–3 record in the 1904 season, despite losing to Penn State, Pitt, the 1908–20 period produced the four-year head coaching tenures of C. A. Lueder and Mont McIntire, representing the longest coaching tenures during this period of Mountaineer football. Lueders Mountaineers produced a 17–13–3 record, while McIntires teams produced the most success of any Mountaineer team prior to 1921 and that same Mountaineer team also produced West Virginias first ever Consensus All-American and potential College Football Hall of Fame inductee, Ira Errett Rodgers. Rodgers scored 19 touchdowns and kicked 33 extra points for WVU in 1919 season, Rodgers also threw 11 touchdown passes that season, an unheard of feat at the time and a Mountaineer record until 1949. The Mountaineers enjoyed their first period of success during the 1920s, coinciding with the successful coaching tenures of Clarence Spears, under the tutelage of Spears, West Virginia compiled a 30–6–3 record with its best performance coming in the 1922 season. The 1922 edition of the Mountaineers remains the team in West Virginia history to produce an unbeaten season. Spearss Mountaineers surrendered only 34 total points in 1922, posting six consecutive shutouts to finish the regular season, the 1922 season also produced notable victories against rival Pitt and against Gonzaga in the East-West Bowl, the programs first bowl game appearance. Offensive tackle Russell Meredith garnered First-Team All-American honors, in homage to the successes of the 1922 season, West Virginia University undertook construction of what became the first incarnation of Mountaineer Field. The Mountaineers continued their success under Spears in posting subsequent one-loss seasons in 1923 and in 1924, Ira Errett Rodgers replaced Spears and the Mountaineers posted an 8–1 record in 1925. After a 6–4 finish in 1926 and a 2–4–3 record in 1927, rodgerss first tenure as West Virginia coach ended with records of 4–3–3 in 1929 and 5–5 in 1930. Although West Virginia posted a 3–4–2 record in 1935, the program produced an All-American in Joe Stydahar, jumbo Joe later became both a College Football Hall of Fame and Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee. Despite his winning record, Tallman resigned after the 1936 season to pursue his career in law enforcement as Superintendent of the West Virginia State Police, Marshall Glenn picked up right where Tallman left off, leading West Virginia to an 8–1–1 record in 1937
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Big 12 Conference
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The Big 12 Conference is a ten-school collegiate athletic conference headquartered in Irving, Texas. Its ten members, located in Iowa, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, additionally, the Big 12 has ten affiliate members, six for the sport of wrestling, one for womens gymnastics, and 3 for womens rowing. The Big 12 Conference is a 501 nonprofit organization incorporated in Delaware, the Big 12 was formerly composed of 12 schools, hence its name, it was formed in 1996 when four schools from the collapsing Southwest Conference joined with the pre-existing Big Eight Conference. Oklahoma and Oklahoma State were grouped with the four newcomers in the Big 12 South, TCU and West Virginia joined from the Mountain West and Big East Conferences respectively to offset two of the departing schools, bringing the conference to its current strength. Attempts to rename the Big 12 to reflect its current strength would lead to confusion with the current Big Ten Conference, the Big 12 Conference commissioner is Bob Bowlsby. Full members Assoc. member Other Conference The Big 12 Conference sponsors championship competition in ten mens, nonetheless, it is an open coed sport in NCAA college athletics, with mens, womens, and coed teams in all NCAA divisions competing against each other. TCU and West Virginia both field coed teams, through 2017, West Virginia with 19 national titles and TCU with two, together have won over half of the NCAA titles awarded since the inaugural NCAA championship in 1980. West Virginia also won four national titles. The Big 12 began athletic play in the fall of 1996, from its formation until 2011, its 12 members competed in two divisions. Between 2011 and 2012 four charter members left the conference while two joined in 2013. The Big 12 is unique among the current Power Five conferences in that it only has 10 members, despite the name, causing some confusion. From 1987 to 2015,12 or more members were required for a championship game. Former Texas Athletic Director DeLoss Dodds and former football coach Mack Brown, along with Oklahoma football coach Bob Stoops, critics argued it was a competitive advantage over other contract conferences. Conferences with a game have their division champions typically play one of their toughest games of the year in the last week of the regular season. Unlike the other Power 5 conferences in which a team plays a portion of the other teams in the conference each season. This theoretically allows for the declaration of a de facto champion without the need for a rematch between the top two teams in the conference. On June 3,2016, the conference announced it would reinstate the football game in the 2017 season. This followed the passage of a new NCAA rule allowing all FBS conferences to hold football championship games regardless of their membership numbers, the Big 12 population base is centered on the states of Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, West Virginia and Iowa
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Davenport, Iowa
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Davenport was founded on May 14,1836 by Antoine Le Claire and was named for his friend, George Davenport, a colonel during the Black Hawk War stationed at nearby Fort Armstrong. According to the 2010 census, the city had a population of 99,685, located approximately halfway between Chicago and Des Moines, Davenport is on the border of Iowa and Illinois. The city is prone to frequent flooding due to its location on the Mississippi River, there are two main universities, Saint Ambrose University and Palmer College of Chiropractic, which is where the first chiropractic adjustment took place. Several annual music festivals take place in Davenport, including the Mississippi Valley Blues Festival, The Mississippi Valley Fair, an internationally known 7-mile foot race called the Bix 7 is run during the festival. The city has a Class A minor league team, the Quad Cities River Bandits. Davenport has 50 plus parks and facilities, as well as over 20 miles of paths for biking or walking. Four interstates and two major United States Highways serve the city, Davenport has seen steady population growth since its incorporation, with an exception being the 1980s, when the population decreased due to job loss. The Quad Cities was ranked as the most affordable metropolitan area in 2010 by Forbes, in 2007, Davenport, along with neighboring Rock Island, won the City Livability Award in the small-city category from the U. S. In 2012, Davenport as well as the Quad Cities Metropolitan Area was ranked among the areas in the nation in the growth of high-tech jobs. The current mayor of Davenport is Frank Klipsch, the land was originally owned by the Sauk people, Meskwaki, and Ho-Chunk – indigenous peoples of the Americas. In 1803 France sold it to the United States under the Louisiana Purchase, lieutenant Zebulon Pike was the first United States representative to officially visit the Upper Mississippi River area. On August 27,1805, Pike camped on the present day site of Davenport, in 1832, a group of Sauk, Meskwaki, and Kickapoo people were defeated by the United States in the Black Hawk War. The United States government then concluded the Black Hawk Purchase, sometimes called the Forty-Mile Strip or Scotts Purchase, the purchase was made for $640,000 on September 21,1832 and contained an area of some 6 million acres, at a price equivalent to 11 cents/acre. Although named after the defeated chief Black Hawk, he was being held prisoner at the time, the purchase was therefore agreed to by Sauk chief Keokuk, who had remained neutral in the war. It was made on the site of present-day Davenport, army General Winfield Scott and Governor of Illinois, John Reynolds, acted on behalf of the United States, with the future Davenport founder, half-Native, Antoine Le Claire serving as translator. Chief Keokuk gave a portion of land to Antoine Le Claires wife, Marguerite. Antoine built their home on the spot where the agreement was signed. Antoine did so, finishing the Treaty House in the spring of 1833, Davenport was established on May 14,1836 by Le Claire, and named after his friend Colonel George Davenport, who was stationed at Fort Armstrong during the war
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Iowa Wesleyan University
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Iowa Wesleyan University is a private four-year liberal arts college located in Mount Pleasant, Iowa. Founded in 1842, it ranks as Iowas first co-educational institution of higher learning, the colleges innovations have included concepts of undergraduate lab science, career experience, and service-learning. The college is affiliated with the United Methodist Church, two campus buildings, Old Main and the Harlan-Lincoln House, are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The latter, the summer home of Robert Todd Lincoln, is now a museum featuring various artifacts from the Harlan. In 1841 a group of Methodist settlers in Mount Pleasant, Iowa, met, on February 17,1842, the legislature granted a charter for the Mount Pleasant Literary Institute, soon to be renamed as Mount Pleasant Collegiate Institute. Despite the charter, organization and fund raising were slow going at first, twenty acres of land were donated for the campus by four Mount Pleasant residents in March 1843. That same month, organizing officials hired Reverend Artistides J. Heustis as the institutions first president, the university occupies a 60-acre central campus of historic red brick buildings and modern structures, including some listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Chapel, built in 1896, received a renovation and restoration in the early 21st century. Undergraduate enrollment at the college is approximately 600 full-time students, dr. Steven E. Titus has been president of the college since June 2013. Students at Iowa Wesleyan can gain a variety of degrees in the fields of Business, Education, Fine Arts, Human Studies, Language and Literature, Nursing, in the late 1960s, Iowa Wesleyan started its Responsible Social Involvement program, or RSI. Now called Service Learning, the program has two goals, Service to the greater community, and Having students participate more actively in their own education. Service Learning allows students direct experience outside the realms of textbooks, classrooms. Additionally, all students at Iowa Wesleyan are required to complete an approved internship through the Office of Field Experience, greek life has a rich history at Iowa Wesleyan University. The one active chapter on campus is the Beta chapter of Alpha Xi Delta Sorority and it is the oldest chapter of Alpha Xi Delta in the country. Sisterhood was founded at Iowa Wesleyan University on January 21,1869, the football team competes in the Upper Midwest Athletic Conference. The Tigers were formerly part of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics, in 2009, for the second time in college history since 2006, both the mens and womens teams qualified for the NAIA National Basketball Tournament. Both mens and womens teams qualified for the USCAA National Tournament in 2015. From 1989-1991, Hal Mumme was head coach, with Mike Leach as his offensive coordinator
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Valdosta State Blazers football
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The Valdosta State football team represents Valdosta State University in football. The Blazers are a member of the Gulf South Conference in NCAA Division II, Valdosta State University has had a football team since 1981. The Blazers play in Bazemore–Hyder Stadium in Valdosta, Georgia, which has a capacity of 11,249, the Stadium is also the home of the historical Valdosta High School Wildcats, known as the winningest high school football team in the country. The Blazers have won a total of three Division II National Championship titles, despite the demands for a team, Valdosta State University, then Valdosta State College, did not form a football team until 1982. The program began under Valdosta State president Hugh C. Bailey, in the Blazers first season, under the direction of Head Coach Jim Goodman, the team finished with a 5-5-1 record. VSC had its first winning season in 1986 with a 9-2 record led by All-American Jessie Tuggle, in 1994 the Blazer won a school record 11 victories, and with quarterback Chris Hatcher, played in the programs first national football tournament. Hatcher was the 1994 Harlon Hill Trophy winner, in 1996, with quarterback Lance Funderburk, the blazers spent a week ranked No.1 in the country in Division II and were the Gulf South Conference Champions for the first time in School history. In 2002, the Blazers went to their first National Championship game against Grand Valley State, in 2004, the Blazers returned to the National Championship, this time defeating Pittsburg State University 36-31. For the 2006 Season the Blazers wore silver helmets to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the VSU football program, in 2007, the Blazers defeated Northwest Missouri State University 25-20 for their second National Championship title. The Blazers also have won 6 Gulf South Conference football championships, Hatcher was also Valdosta States head football coach from 2000–2006 and amassed a 68-10 record with one national championship and four conference crowns during his six-year tenure at Valdosta State. David Dean, former VSU offensive coordinator, is the current football coach at Valdosta State University. In his first year Deans Valdosta State team won the 2007 Division II National Championship, under Dean the Blazers also won the 2012 national title. Records are through the end of the 2016 Season Mumme took over as coach at Valdosta State University in 1992. Mumme’s record at Valdosta State was 40-17-1, in both 1994 and 1996 he led the team to the NCAA Division II playoff quarterfinals, Valdosta State had never made the playoffs previously. In 1994 the Blazer won a school record 11 victories and Quarterback Chris Hatcher won the Harlon Hill Award as player of the year in NCAA Division II football. The team was ranked in the Division II top 20 and was ranked #1 in the nation in Division II for part of the 1996 season when they won their first Gulf South Conference championship. Chris Hatcher was named the Head Coach of the Blazers in 2000, the Hatch-Attack completed its first season 10-2, and were Gulf South Conference Champions with an 8-1 conference record, a dramatic improvement from their previous 4-7 season. In 2001 and 2002, the Blazers went undefeated during the regular season, the two seasons were a part of a GSC record 35 straight regular season victories
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Mississippi College Choctaws football
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The Mississippi College Choctaws football team represents Mississippi College. The schools teams are known as the Choctaws and its major rival is Millsaps College in nearby Jackson. After a more than 40-year hiatus, the two teams meeting on the football field again in 2000. The rivalry is dubbed the Backyard Brawl, the first year of the team was in 1907. The 1921 team was led by Hall of Famer Edwin Goat Hale, official record against all current GSC opponents
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Wingate Bulldogs
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The Wingate Bulldogs are the athletic teams that represent Wingate University, located in Wingate, North Carolina, in NCAA Division II intercollegiate sports. The Bulldogs compete as members of the South Atlantic Conference for all 22 varsity sports, Wingate has been a member of the SAC since 1989. Additionally, Wingate University was awarded the NCAA Division II Community Engagement Award of Excellence in 2011, Wingate University is ranked first among NCAA Division II Academic All-America producing schools for having 77 Academic All-America student-athletes since January 2000. Wingate University has won the South Atlantic Conference Athletic Excellence Award for the past nine years, the South Atlantic Conference Echols Athletic Excellence Award is presented annually to the member athletic department that earns the highest overall finish based on final regular season standings. Points are based on final tournament standings in the sports of cross country, women’s cross country, men’s golf. The trophy is presented at the SAC Annual Business Meeting at the conclusion of school year. Wingate also offers several intramural leagues and tournaments during the school year, intramural leagues are formed in flag football, basketball, floor hockey, volleyball and soccer. Tournaments are held in billiards, racquetball, sand volleyball and softball, as well as a Punt, Pass, and Kick competition
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Texas Tech Red Raiders football
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The Texas Tech Red Raiders football program is a college football team that represents Texas Tech University. The team competes, as a member of the Big 12 Conference, the program began in 1925 and has an overall winning record, including a total of 11 conference titles and one division title. On December 12,2012, former Red Raider quarterback Kliff Kingsbury became the teams 15th head coach, home games are played at Jones AT&T Stadium in Lubbock, Texas. Texas Tech fielded its first intercollegiate football team during the 1925 season, the team was known as the Matadors from 1925 to 1936, a name suggested by the wife of E. Y. Freeland, the first football coach, to reflect the influence of the Spanish Renaissance architecture on campus, in 1932, Texas Tech joined the Border Intercollegiate Athletic Association, also known as the Border Conference. That same year, the team won its first conference championship and was invited to the Sun Bowl, the game was played on January 1,1938, and resulted in a 7–6 loss to the West Virginia Mountaineers. Texas Tech suffered four more losses before their first postseason win in the 1952 Sun Bowl. Before withdrawing from the Border Conference in 1956, the Red Raiders won eight championships and one co-championship. In 1956, Texas Tech was admitted to the Southwest Conference and it gained full SWC membership and began official conference play in 1960. The Red Raiders won conference co-championships in 1976 and 1994, the team remained in the SWC until the conference dissolved in 1996. The university was invited and became a member in the South Division of the Big 12 Conference. Texas Tech was the member in the history of the Big 12 to boast a winning record every year since the conferences formation. In 2003, Texas Tech was the team to ever have 5 or more players with at least 60 receptions in a single season. In 2008, the Red Raiders were one of three teams involved in the first three way conference division tie. Texas Tech has competed as a member of three different conferences since 1925, the Red Raiders have won National Championships and 11 conference championships, the first 9 were Border Conference championships, and the most recent was the Big 12 South Championship won in 2008. The Red Raiders were previously members of the Big 12 South between its inception in 1996 and the dissolution of divisions within the Big 12 in 2011. † Denotes co-champions Texas Tech has played in 37 postseason bowl games with an record of 14 wins,22 losses. The 37 bowl game appearances by the Red Raiders rank the program 17th in all-time in bowl games played, Texas Techs first bowl game was at the conclusion of the 1937 season, only 13 years after the program was established
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Houston Cougars football
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The Houston Cougars football program is an NCAA Division I FBS football team that represents the University of Houston. The team is referred to as Houston or UH. The UH football program is a member of the American Athletic Conference West Division, over the history of the program, the Cougars have won eleven conference championships and have had several players elected to the College Football Hall of Fame, including a Heisman Trophy winner. In 1941, Johnny Goyen, then editor for The Cougar. The next year, the two called a student body meeting to organize another petition and this petitions purpose was to challenge Rice Institute to a football game. The Rice Owls were a program, having played since 1919 as a member of the Southwest Conference. In August 1945, the University of Houston announced that the school would field a team for the first time. In September 1946, the became a reality after Harry Fouke, UHs first athletic director, hired successful high school coach Jewell Wallace. One hundred thirty students showed up, only ten of whom had played college football before. Prior to joining the Cougars, Wallace served as coach for San Angelo High School. During the spring training for the first team, Goyen and Valentis petition was finally answered, the meeting was to be at Rice. When the team arrived at the field in their practice uniforms, officials were there, and the stadium was full of spectators. The game ended with Rice demolishing the Houston Cougars, the game had an attendance of 11,000. It wouldnt be until 1971 that the Cougars and Owls competed again, although Charlie Manichia, the Cougars starting quarterback, scored the first touchdown of the game, the team lost to SLI 13–7. The next game, the Cougars played against West Texas State Teachers College, the Cougars finished up their first season with a 4–6–0 record. Wallace continued as coach for the Cougars until the end of the 1947 season. Clyde Lee, a University of Tulsa assistant coach, became Houstons second head coach in February 1948, to replace the remainder of Wallaces team that didnt return, Lee turned to junior colleges for the majority of his recruiting. At this time, the University of Houston, along with Texas Tech University, attempted to join the established Southwest Conference, in response, several universities from the Lone Star Conference formed the Gulf Coast Conference
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Oklahoma State Cowboys football
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The Oklahoma State Cowboys football program represents Oklahoma State University–Stillwater in college football. The team is a member of the Big 12 Conference and competes at the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision level, the Cowboys are led by Mike Gundy, who is in his tenth year as head coach. Oklahoma State plays their games at Boone Pickens Stadium in Stillwater. The Oklahoma A&M Aggies played their first season of football in 1900 and joined their first conference for the start of the 1915 season, in 1925, the Oklahoma A&M program joined the Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association. In 1928, the MVIAA split into the Big Six Conference, A&M was the only large school that joined the smaller MVC. Jim Lookabaugh led the Cowboys for eleven seasons, which included a 9–0 campaign, Lookabaugh was an OSU alum who lettered in multiple sports. In October 2016, Oklahoma State was retroactively awarded the 1945 National Championship by the American Football Coaches Association, Lookabaugh stepped down after the 1949 season, finishing his tenure with a mark of 58–41–6. From 1950 to 1954, Jennings B, whitworth coached at Oklahoma A&M, and compiled a 22–27–1 record, which included only one winning season, a 7–3 campaign in 1953. Whitworth departed A&M to accept the coaching position at Alabama following the 1954 season. Cliff Speegle took the reins of the Oklahoma A&M Cowboys, under Speegles tutelage, the Cowboys compiled a record of 36–42–3, which included three winning seasons from 1957 to 1959. The losing record, combined with an 0–8 mark against rival Oklahoma, in 1956, A&M announced it was joining what had become the Big Seven for the 1958–59 academic year. As part of a period, the Cowboys went independent for two years. On May 15,1957, Oklahoma A&M changed its name to Oklahoma State University and they officially became a part of the renamed Big Eight Conference in 1958. Longtime Bear Bryant assistant Phil Cutchin led Oklahoma State to its first win over Oklahoma in 20 years, Cutchin was replaced by the OSU administration eager to see a winning product on the field. Oklahoma State continued to struggle under head coach Floyd Gass, an OSU alum, during his tenure, he led the team to three straight losing seasons. Fan and administration support became increasingly hard to come by as the on-field production slipped, despite the lack of football success, Gass would serve in multiple capactities at OSU, including athletics director for several years after his resignation as football coach. The Cowboys were finally able to enjoy a winning season —their first in nine years—in 1974 under the leadership of head coach Dave Smith, however, Smith wouldnt stick around, as he departed for the head coaching position at SMU after just one season in Stillwater. Jim Stanley, a defensive coordinator at OSU, returned to Stillwater to become the head coach of the Cowboys in 1973
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Football Writers Association of America
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The Football Writers Association of America is one of the organizations whose College Football All-America Team is recognized by the NCAA. Since 1954, the association has awarded the Grantland Rice Trophy to the football team they choose to be the National Champion. The Football Writers Association of America was founded in 1941 and is composed of approximately 1,200 sports writers from both print and Internet media outlets. The organization strives for better working conditions for writers in college football press boxes. The FWAA consists of the men and women across North America who cover college football for a living, the membership includes journalists, broadcasters and publicists, as well as key executives in all the areas that involve the game. The FWAA works to govern areas that include game day operations, major awards, the FWAA also sponsors scholarships for aspiring writers and an annual writing contest. The Football Writers Association of America All-America Committee selects the 25-man All-America Team, in the spring, the committee selects the FWAA All-America Watch List and the watch lists for both of the FWAAs major player awards. The FWAA has chosen an All-America Team annually since the 1944 season, presented to a member of the FWAA for outstanding contribution to the organization. Selected by the Football Writers Association of America for the year of college football in 1969. An Early Era team was chose that featured Jim Thorpe, a modern team and it is called the FWAA-NFF Grantland Rice Super 16 Poll
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West Virginia University
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West Virginia University is a public, land-grant, space-grant, research-intensive university in Morgantown, West Virginia, United States. WVU Extension Service provides outreach with offices in all of West Virginias 55 counties, since 2001, WVU has been governed by the West Virginia University Board of Governors. Enrollment for the Fall 2015 semester was 28,776 for the main campus, WVU offers 191 bachelors, masters, doctoral, and professional degree programs in 15 colleges. WVU has produced 24 Rhodes Scholars, including former WVU president David C, the University has also produced 36 Goldwater Scholars,22 Truman Scholars, and five members of USA Todays All‑USA College Academic First Team. On December 4,1868, lawmakers renamed the college West Virginia University to represent a range of higher education. The University was built on the grounds of three academies, the Monongalia Academy of 1814, the Morgantown Female Academy of 1831. Upon its founding, the newspaper claimed that a place more eligible for the quiet and successful pursuit of science. The first campus building was constructed in 1870 as University Hall, and was renamed Martin Hall in 1889 in honor of West Virginia Universitys first president, the Rev. Alexander Martin of Scotland. After the Woodburn Seminary building was destroyed by fire in 1873, the name was changed to University Building in 1878, when the College of Law was founded as the first professional school in the state of West Virginia. The precursor to Woodburn Circle was finished in 1893 when Chitwood Hall was constructed on the north side. In 1909 a north wing was added to University Building, throughout the next decade, Woodburn Hall underwent several renovations and additions, including the construction of the south wing and east tower housing the Seth Thomas clock. The three Woodburn Circle buildings were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974, in 1899, the Vance Farm was acquired for the West Virginia University Experiment Station. WVU was required to have a Cadet Corps under the terms of the Morrill Act of 1862, the heavy military influence led to opposition of female enrollment that lasted through the first decade of the university. The trend changed in 1889, when ten women were allowed to enroll, in June 1891, Harriet Lyon became the first woman to receive a degree from West Virginia University, finishing first in the class ahead of all male students. Lyons academic success supported the acceptance of women in the university as students, during the Universitys early years, daily chapel services and roll call for all students were mandatory, limiting time for student recreation. Following the removal of these obligations, students became active in activities and established many of the schools first athletic. Phi Kappa Psi was the first fraternity on campus, founded May 23,1890, while Kappa Delta, the first football team was formed in 1891, and the first basketball team appeared in 1903. The Universitys outlook at the turn of the 20th century was optimistic, the campus welcomed U. S. President William Howard Taft to campus for WVU President Thomas Hodgess inauguration in 1911
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Bill Stewart (American football)
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William L. Bill Stewart, nicknamed Stew, was an American football coach. He was named head coach of the West Virginia Mountaineers after Rich Rodriguez left for Michigan in December 2007. After leading the Mountaineers to a 48–28 victory over the Oklahoma Sooners in the Fiesta Bowl, Stewart resigned amid accusations of initiating a smear campaign against his appointed successor, Dana Holgorsen. He was previously the coach of Virginia Military Institute for three seasons. Stewart was a 1975 education graduate of Fairmont State College, where he was a three-year letterman, stewart’s coaching career began at his alma mater of Fairmont State, where he was a student assistant coach for a season. He became an assistant coach at Sistersville High School in 1975, in 1977, he moved to Salem College where he was an assistant football and head track coach for two seasons. In 1979, he was an assistant coach at the University of North Carolina and he has also been an assistant coach at Marshall University, William and Mary, Navy, North Carolina, Arizona State and Air Force. In 1994, he assumed the coaching position at Virginia Military Institute. In three years, he compiled an 8–25 record, Bill Stewart gave current Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin his first job as an assistant at VMI in 1995. Coach Tomlin returned the favor by vouching for Stewart with the West Virginia University administration, Stewart resigned in 1996 after making a racially insensitive comment towards a player regarding his on-field behavior. After what he believed to be excessive celebration by one of his players following a play, Stewart was forced to resign and later sued VMI for money he thought he was owed. Stewart described the incident as an incident that happened while he was trying to help the kid. Stewart served as the line coach for the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League in 1998. His line blocked for Mike Pringle, the first 2, 000-yard rusher in CFL history, in 1999, he moved on to be the offensive coordinator of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers where he coached two all-conference receivers and a one thousand-yard rusher. Head coach Don Nehlen hired Stewart at WVU in January,2000 as the quarterbacks coach, Stewart was retained by Rich Rodriguez when he became the head coach after the 2000 season. Stewart remained the coach and special teams coach until 2007 when he moved to coach the tight ends. Following Rodriguezs departure to become the coach at the University of Michigan on December 16,2007. In that game Stewart led the team to a 48-28 upset win over the #3 Oklahoma Sooners, during the press conference following the awards ceremony, Fiesta Bowl MVP and West Virginia quarterback Pat White said of Stewart, He needs that job
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Oliver Luck
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Oliver Francis Luck is a former American football quarterback who played 5 seasons in the NFL. He is an executive with the National Collegiate Athletic Association in charge of the regulatory functions. Prior to that, he was Director of Intercollegiate Athletes at West Virginia University, Luck is a retired American football player who spent five seasons in the National Football League as a quarterback for the Houston Oilers. He was also the first president and general manager of the Houston Dynamo of Major League Soccer, under his watch, the Dynamo won the MLS Cup in 2006 and 2007. He is the father of Indianapolis Colts quarterback Andrew Luck, Luck attended St. Ignatius High School in Cleveland, where he was a standout quarterback. He then enrolled at WVU, playing quarterback from 1978–1981, in his freshman season, Luck only had 151 yards passing and five interceptions. As a sophomore in 1979, he passed for 1,292 yards and eight touchdowns and he also rushed for 407 yards and five touchdowns, including a career-high 120 yards against Tulane. In his junior season of 1980, Luck earned first-team Academic All-American honors, Lucks 19 touchdown passes was a school record, while he also added 1,874 yards. As a senior in 1981, he led the Mountaineers to the Peach Bowl where they defeated the Florida Gators by a score of 26–6. Also named Academic All-American for the consecutive season, Luck threw for a school record 216 completions and 394 attempts to add to his 2,448 yards and 16 touchdowns. He added career-highs 360 passing yards and a school-record 34 completions in a loss to Syracuse that season, Luck, who was a three-year starter, ended his career with school records of 43 career touchdown passes,466 completions, and 911 pass attempts. His 5,765 career passing yards currently ranks fourth on the school list. Luck still ranks in the top ten in every career passing category. Luck was a finalist to be a Rhodes Scholar, a National Football Foundation Scholar, and he was named the team MVP in 1980 and 1981 and won the 1981 Louis D. Meisel Award. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Luck was inducted into the Academic All-America Hall of Fame in 2000. After graduating from West Virginia, Lucks QB job was filled by Penn State transfer Jeff Hostetler, Luck was the 44th overall selection in the 1982 NFL Draft, taken in the second round by the Houston Oilers. He was the third quarterback taken, after Art Schlichter and Jim McMahon, as a rookie in the strike-shortened 1982 season, Luck saw no action. He was a teammate of fellow quarterback Archie Manning during the 1982 and 1983 seasons, in 1984, the Oilers signed Canadian Football League star Warren Moon
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Mike Leach (American football coach)
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Michael Charles Mike Leach is an American college football coach. He is the coach of the Washington State Cougars football team. Previously, he was coach of the Texas Tech Red Raiders football team. Born to Frank and Sandra Leach in Susanville, California, Mike Leach claims Cody, Wyoming and he graduated from Cody High School before studying at Brigham Young University, where he closely followed the exploits of the BYU Cougars football team. The Cougars, guided by head coach LaVell Edwards and offensive coordinator Norm Chow, Leach graduated in 1983 with a bachelors degree in American studies. In 1986, Leach earned a Juris Doctor from Pepperdine University School of Law, Leach is also one of the most prominent graduates of the United States Sports Academy, from which he earned a Masters of Sports Science in Sports Coaching in 1988. Leach is married with four children and he was raised a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Leach is atypical among NCAA Division I head football coaches in that he did not play football at the college level. He is one of six such coaches along with Paul Johnson at Georgia Tech, David Cutcliffe at Duke, Chad Morris at SMU, Sonny Dykes at California. His office has described as a museum of pirate paraphernalia. In particular, Leach admires the teamwork exhibited by pirates, Leachs affinity for pirates came to bear in a cameo he made on the TV series Friday Night Lights. In the shows season, he portrays a random loon at a gas station who implores a despondent coach Eric Taylor to swing your sword. Leach spends time during each off-season learning as much as he can about various things that interest him, aside from pirates, he has researched topics such as Native American leader Geronimo, American pioneer Daniel Boone, grizzly bears, chimpanzees, whales, and American artist Jackson Pollock. Leachs spread offense relies heavily on passing and he has several of his quarterbacks post NCAA records. At Kentucky he tutored prospect Tim Couch into a No.1 NFL draft pick, at Oklahoma, Josh Heupel became an NFL draft pick following a year under Leachs tutelage. Leachs tenure at Texas Tech produced most of the Red Raiders school leaders in passing and receiving, the Leach-coached Red Raiders best finishes came with three nine-win seasons in 2002,2005, and 2007 and an 11-win season in 2008. In 2002, Tech swept its in-state conference rivals Baylor, Texas and it was the Red Raiders first postseason win since 1995 when they beat the Air Force Falcons in the Copper Bowl. In 2005, the Red Raiders opened their season with a 6–0 record, their best start since 1998, Leach built a strong passing offense at Tech, where the Red Raiders led the NCAA in passing yardage for four years in a row
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Kevin Sumlin
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Kevin Warren Sumlin is an American football coach and former player who is the head coach at Texas A&M University. Previously, Sumlin was the football coach at the University of Houston from 2007 to 2011. Kevin Sumlin was born in Brewton, Alabama on August 3,1964 and he later attended Brebeuf Jesuit Preparatory School in Indianapolis, where he played football, basketball, and hockey. Following his prep career, Sumlin attended Purdue University and was a linebacker for his entire college career. He was a member of the 1984 Peach Bowl team and finished in the Top Ten in total tackles and he led the team in tackles his freshman season with 91 total tackles. He was a teammate of players such as Jim Everett, Hall of Famer Rod Woodson, fellow linebacker Fred Strickland and long-time NFL players Mel Gray and Cris Dishman. Sumlin served as an assistant with Washington State, Wyoming, Minnesota and Purdue, Slocum, and for five years at Oklahoma under Bob Stoops, serving the last 2 years as co-offensive coordinator. In addition to Stoops and Slocum, he has served as an assistant under Dennis Erickson and Mike Price at Washington State and he left for Texas A&M and served as offensive coordinator and assistant head coach for two seasons before joining the University of Oklahoma. In his final year with the Sooners, his offense was one of the best in the country, in December 2009, it was announced that Sumlin was a finalist for the Paul Bear Bryant Award. In 2011, Sumlin coached Houston to a 12–0 start before losing the Conference USA Championship Game to the Southern Miss Golden Eagles. On December 10,2011, Sumlin told his players that he was leaving Houston, effective immediately, KRIV in Houston and ESPNs Joe Schad both reported that Sumlin was to become the new coach at Texas A&M. Special teams coordinator Tony Levine coached Houston in the 2012 TicketCity Bowl, in 2012, Sumlin named quarterback Johnny Manziel his starter. The Aggies finished the 2012 season ranked in the top 5 of both the Coaches Poll and the AP Poll for the first time since 1956. Texas A&M would also lead the SEC in total offense, total scoring offense, total rushing yds, kevin Sumlin and the Texas A&M Aggies would become the first SEC team in history to amass over 7,000 yds in total offense. Coach Sumlin was the first head coach to win more than 8 games in his first season as head coach, on November 30,2013, Sumlin agreed to a new 6-year contract as head coach at Texas A&M. The contract, valued at $30 million over 6 years, is guaranteed and this prevented Texas A&M from firing him after the 2015 and 2016 seasons as the buyout amounts would have had to be paid out within 60 days of termination. *Sumlin left for Texas A&M after the season, Tony Levine coached the Cougars to a 30–14 win over Penn State in the TicketCity Bowl
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Mike Gundy
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Mike Gundy is an American football coach and former player. He is currently the football coach at Oklahoma State University–Stillwater. Gundy played college football at Oklahoma State, where he played quarterback from 1986 to 1989 and he became Oklahoma States coach on January 3,2005. In 2007, he received media attention for his heated criticism of a newspaper article on one of his players. At Midwest City High School, Gundy played quarterback, and was voted Oklahoma Player of the Year in 1986 and his high school football coach was Dick Evans. Gundy was heavily recruited by the Oklahoma Sooners but in the end signed with the Oklahoma State University Cowboys and he became the starting quarterback midway through his freshman year. Gundy would become the leading passer in Oklahoma State and Big 8 Conference history. In four seasons Gundy threw 49 touchdowns and 7,997 yards and he led the Cowboys to bowl wins in the 1987 Sun Bowl and 1988 Holiday Bowl aided by two Hall of Fame running backs, Thurman Thomas and Barry Sanders. He also led OSU to two 10-win seasons, coincidentally, Baylor was playing against Gundys Oklahoma State team when Griffin surpassed the mark. After the game, Gundy was able to personally congratulate Griffin on the accomplishment, when Gundy graduated, he joined Pat Joness staff as an assistant coach. He was wide receiver coach in 1990, quarterback coach from 1991–1993, Gundy was quarterbacks coach/passing game coordinator for Baylor during the 1996 season. He was on staff with Larry Fedora at Baylor and would rekindle that relationship when he became coach at Oklahoma State. After the 1996 season, Gundy moved again, this time to Maryland where he was wide receiver coach, in 2001, the Oklahoma State University head football coach job became vacant when Bob Simmons resigned and a search produced Les Miles and Mike Gundy as the finalists. Miles was hired as coach and Gundy was brought aboard as offensive coordinator. Gundy is one of three football coaches at Oklahoma State to have played for Oklahoma State, along with Jim Lookabaugh. His first season saw the expulsion of eleven players from the team, in his second season, the Cowboy offense began to click and the Cowboys would finish 7–6 including a victory over the Alabama Crimson Tide in the Independence Bowl. In 2007, the Cowboys again posted a 6–6 regular season record, after their second straight bowl appearance, Gundy was rewarded with a contract extension through the 2013 season. Since 2008, Gundy has led the Cowboys to 59 wins and this is the most successful period in Oklahoma State football history
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Graham Harrell
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Graham Stanton Harrell is an American Football assistant coach and former American football and Canadian football quarterback. He is currently the coordinator and quarterbacks coach for the North Texas Mean Green. He had been an assistant for the Washington State Cougars for the two seasons and had also worked for Oklahoma State in a quality control position. Harrell was signed into the National Football League in 2010 by the Green Bay Packers and he won Super Bowl XLV with the Packers over the Pittsburgh Steelers. He was also a member the New York Jets, prior to his time in the NFL, he was signed by the Saskatchewan Roughriders in 2009 as an undrafted free agent in the Canadian Football League. Harrell was born to Sam and Kathy Harrell in Brownwood, Texas and his father was hired as Head Coach at Ennis High School in Ennis, Texas. Harrell played at EHS under his fathers coaching and he was the starting quarterback for three seasons and led the Ennis Lions to a state Class 4A title as a sophomore in 2001. He also played in the 2004 Oil Bowl, receiving the offensive MVP award, Harrell set Texas high school records in the following categories, Single-season passing yards. This record stood until 2007 when it was broken by Lake Travis quarterback Garrett Gilbert, Single-season touchdown passes Career touchdown passes Single-season pass completions. In addition, Harrell ranks second in pass completions. In 2004, Harrell redshirted his first season at Texas Tech, the following season, he served as the backup quarterback behind another Texas Tech record setter, Cody Hodges, who led college football in passing yards in 2005. Harrell started in game of the 2006 season, beating out classmate Chris Todd. The lone Red Raider loss was to Texas Christian University, 12-3 in the game of the season. Despite the 4-1 start, Harrell was benched halfway through the game due to poor play after the Raiders fell behind the Missouri Tigers 24-0. Harrell came back into the game and got the Raiders within 3 points before the half but struggled in the second half as Tech lost 38-21. The next week against a winless Colorado team that Tech was heavily favored to beat, however, Harrell rebounded to throw for 6 touchdowns against the Iowa State Cyclones and then threw for 519 yards and 3 touchdowns against the Texas Longhorns in a narrow 35-31 loss. The Raiders finished the season with a 55-21 win against the Baylor Bears, a 34-24 loss to the Oklahoma Sooners, Texas Tech finished the regular season 7-5 and received an invitation to the 2006 Insight Bowl. The 7-5 Red Raiders faced off against the 6-6 Minnesota Golden Gophers at the 2006 Insight Bowl in Tempe, Texas Tech struggled on both offense and defense during first 3 quarters of the Insight Bowl
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Michael Crabtree
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Michael Alex Crabtree Jr. is an American football wide receiver for the Oakland Raiders of the National Football League. He was drafted by the San Francisco 49ers tenth overall in the 2009 NFL Draft and he played college football at Texas Tech, where he was a two-time unanimous All-American and twice won the Fred Biletnikoff Award as the nations best wide receiver. Michael Crabtree was born in Dallas, Texas and he attended David W. Carter High School in Dallas, where he played basketball, football, and ran track for the Cowboys program. He played as a quarterback for the Carter Cowboys high school football team, as a senior, he passed for 870 yards and eleven touchdowns on 45 completions out of 100 attempts. He also ran for 646 yards and nine touchdowns on 100 carries and he was four-star football recruit as an athlete. In addition to playing football in school, Crabtree was also on the basketball team. During a visit in 2004, Texas Tech basketball coach Bob Knight asked Crabtree which sport he was going to choose, though the decision was not an easy one, he opted to play college football exclusively. Crabtree was offered scholarships by Baylor, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas State, Oklahoma, Texas A&M, Texas Tech. He was also recruited by Texas, whose coaches wanted him to play defense, Crabtree refused, stating that he wanted to score touchdowns. Crabtree accepted a scholarship to attend Texas Tech University, where he played for coach Mike Leach. Crabtree was redshirted his season of 2006 due to a transcript glitch. In 2007, Crabtree started his season against SMU. The Red Raiders won 49–9, and Crabtree stood out with 106 yards receiving on twelve receptions for three touchdowns, the next week, in a 45–31 win over UTEP, Crabtree continued his performance with 15 receptions,188 yards, and two touchdowns. Against the Rice Owls, Crabtree put up 244 yards on eleven receptions for three touchdowns, in Techs first loss of the season, against Oklahoma State, he had 14 receptions for 237 yards and three touchdowns. In a 75–7 win over Northwestern State, Crabtree had 145 yards on eight receptions for three touchdowns in two and a half quarters of playing time. In the contest against Iowa State, Crabtree had 10 receptions for 154 yards, during the Iowa State game, Crabtree broke the season record for most touchdown receptions by a freshman receiver. The previous record of 14 was shared by Jabar Gaffney in 2000, Mike Williams in 2002, in the October 13,2007 game, Crabtree tacked on 170 more receiving yards on eight receptions but had no touchdowns in a 35–7 win over the Texas A&M Aggies. This brought his total yardage to 1,244, in the next game, against Missouri, he again did not score but still added 76 more yards on ten catches
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Case Keenum
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Casey Austin Keenum is an American football quarterback for the Minnesota Vikings of the National Football League. He played college football at Houston, where he became the NCAAs all-time leader in passing yards, touchdowns. He was signed by the Houston Texans as a free agent in 2012 and has also played for the St. Louis/Los Angeles Rams. In the 2008 college football season, Keenum ranked first nationally in total offense, as a result of his on-field contributions to Houstons success, Keenum was named to several All-American lists. He is the quarterback in Division I FBS football history to have passed for more than 5,000 yards in each of three seasons. On October 22,2011, Keenum became the Football Bowl Subdivisions all-time leader in total offense, on October 27,2011, Keenum became the all-time leader in total touchdown passes by an FBS quarterback. During that game he threw for nine touchdowns and 534 yards, Keenum threw for 1,760 yards and 9 touchdowns in the 8 games he started for the Texans, before being waived on August 31,2014. Keenum was picked up by the St. Louis Rams the next day and was on their practice squad and he re-signed with the Houston Texans on December 15,2014 after their starting and backup quarterbacks were injured. On March 10,2015, the Rams traded a draft pick to the Texans for Keenum, Keenum played football for Wylie High School in Abilene, Texas. During his high school career, he passed for 6,783 yards and 48 touchdowns, logging 42 starts at quarterback, Keenum posted a career record of 31–11. In 2004, Keenum led Wylie in the drive for a 17–14 victory over Cuero High School of Cuero. This is Wylies only state championship to date as of the end of the 2015 season, in addition to being recruited by Houston, Keenum was recruited by Baylor, North Texas, and UTEP, although Houston was the only university to offer a scholarship. Keenum also earned varsity letters in basketball and track during his school career. Keenum began his career at the University of Houston during the 2006 season. During his freshman season, decorated senior Kevin Kolb held the starting position for the Cougars. The 2006 Cougars won the Conference USA championship, and Kolb was drafted by the NFLs Philadelphia Eagles, in fall camp before the 2007 season, the Cougars held a de facto quarterback competition to fill the starting spot vacated by the departure of four-year starter Kevin Kolb. The competition swung between Keenum and sophomore Blake Joseph throughout two-a-days and during much of the season, with each displaying a different set of strengths. Keenum made his first collegiate appearance on September 1,2007 when the Cougars opened the season at the Oregon Ducks and he threw for 179 yards and a touchdown on 14-of-27 passing and added 47 rushing yards on nine carries against the Ducks
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Spread offense
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Spread offense may also refer to the four corners offense in basketball. The spread offense is a scheme in American and Canadian football that is used at every level of the game including professional, college. Spread offenses typically place the quarterback in the formation, and spread the defense horizontally using three-, four-. Many spread offenses also employ a no-huddle approach, some implementations of the spread also feature wide splits between the offensive linemen. Many spread offenses use the read option running play to put pressure on sides of the defense. Spread offenses also leverage vertical passing routes to spread the defense vertically, the grandfather of the spread offense is Rusty Russell, a graduate of Howard Payne University, in Brownwood, Texas, and coach of Fort Worths Masonic Home and School for orphaned boys. Russell began coaching Masonic Home in 1927, and due to the fact that his teams were often over-matched physically by other schools, while there, he deployed the earliest form of a spread offense to great success. Russells team is the subject of a book by author Jim Dent entitled, Twelve Mighty Orphans, meyers book introduced the spread to the college game. Leo “Dutch” Meyer, who inspired Don Coryell among others, wrote about his theories for football offenses and that in turn created natural holes in the line and seams in the defensive secondary. Spreading out the defense reduced the need for power blocking by undersized linemen, the ball came in a direct snap to the tailback, and out of that formation Meyer created confusion with handoffs, fake handoffs, and pivots that slowed the defensive rush to the ball…. Under Fletchers newly created offense, quarterback George Bork led the nation in total offense, the football played at the dawn of the 1970s generally featured hard running, ball control football, accented occasionally on third and long by a pass out of a stationary pocket. You can catch the ball, you can throw it incomplete, few examples of coaches with successful, innovative passing offenses existed at any level of competition in late 1969. But not even the most inventive coach operates in a vacuum and he certainly relied on the work of Glenn “Tiger” Ellison. In his book, Ellison describes his experiments with the “departure into insanity” Lonesome Polecat sandlot-style formation in a successful attempt to avoid a losing season in 1958. The quarterback was encouraged to scramble and to find open receivers. ”The initial success of the Lonesome Polecat led Ellison to several years of more successful tinkering with what came to be known as the “Run and Shoot Offense. ”Ellison’s “Run and Shoot” experiment evolved into a double-slot formation with “split ends uniformly 17 yards from the ball. The offense used motion and receivers changing pass routes based on the reactions of defenders, Ellison’s offense clearly served as the most important inspiration and the foundation for Neumeier. But Neumeier then took Ellison’s ideas and synthesized something even more innovative than the “Run, another piece of the puzzle Neumeier assembled preparing for the 1970 season came from Red Hickey during Hickeys stint coaching the San Francisco 49ers. Hickey first utilized the shotgun formation in a 1960 NFL game against the Baltimore Colts, Hickey thought it might help to slow the Colt pass rush and give the 49ers quarterback another second or two to spot his receivers
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Kliff Kingsbury
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Kliff Timothy Kingsbury is an American football coach and former quarterback. During his playing career, Kingsbury held and currently holds many Division I passing records and he is currently the head coach of the Texas Tech Red Raiders football team, where he played from 1998–2002. Kingsbury began his career as an assistant with the Houston Cougars from 2008-2011. Kingsbury played high school football at New Braunfels High School, where his father, Kingsbury also was a member of the baseball, basketball, and track teams. As a quarterback at New Braunfels, Kingsbury led the team to the Class 5A Division II semifinals and he was named the offensive MVP in the Texas High School Coaches All-Star Game. Kingsbury graduated 3rd in his class of 450, and was an Academic All-State selection, Kingsbury played collegiately for the Texas Tech Red Raiders at the quarterback position under coach Spike Dykes from 1998-1999 and Mike Leach from 2000-2002. Kingsbury played 43 games at Texas Tech, completing 1,229 of 1,881 passes for 12,423 yards with 95 touchdowns and 40 interceptions overall during his career. At the conclusion of his playing career, Kingsbury held 39 school records,13 Big 12 Conference records. In his redshirt year in 1999, Kingsbury appeared in six games. He completed 25 of 57 passes for 492 yards, four touchdowns, in 2000, He assumed the starting role and connected on 361 of 584 passes for 3,412 yards,21 touchdowns and 17 interceptions. He added two scores on 78 carries and his season ended with a loss to the East Carolina Pirates in the Gallery-Furniture. com Bowl, with a final score of 40-27. As a junior in 2001, Kingsbury was an All-District first-team selection and he completed 364 of 528 passes for 3,502 yards,25 touchdowns and only nine interceptions. In 2002, Kingsbury averaged 350.2 yards per game, as a senior, Kingsbury led Texas Tech to a 9-5 record, defeating Big 12 Conference rivals Texas, Texas A&M and Baylor, in addition to a 55-15 routing of the Clemson Tigers in the Tangerine Bowl. Following the 2002 season, he was awarded the Sammy Baugh Trophy and these awards followed a season during which he shattered his own school single-season records by completing 479 of 712 passes for 5,017 yards,45 touchdowns and just 13 interceptions. He also added two rushing scores on 102 carries and he, along with Graham Harrell, are the only Texas Tech quarterbacks to have beaten both the Oklahoma Sooners and Texas Longhorns during their careers as starters. Kingsbury led Tech to 3 bowl games in his 3 years as a starter, with a 24-16 overall record. Kingsbury was only the player in college football history to throw for over 10,000 yards, gain over 10,000 yards in total offense. He also became just the player in college football to throw for over 3,000 yards three times during his career
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Brandon Weeden
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Brandon Kyle Weeden is an American football quarterback for the Houston Texans of the National Football League. He was drafted as the 22nd overall pick in the 2012 NFL Draft by the Cleveland Browns and he has also played for the Dallas Cowboys and is currently serving in a backup quarterback role for the Houston Texans. Weeden was the quarterback for the Oklahoma State Cowboys from 2010 to 2011. Weeden was the quarterback at Edmond Santa Fe High School. He finished 2nd in the state of Oklahoma in passing yards with 2,863 and he was named All-State in football and later that year was also named All-State in baseball. Weeden graduated from Edmond Santa Fe High School in 2002, a pitcher, Weeden was drafted in the second round of the 2002 Major League Baseball Draft by the New York Yankees as their first selection in the draft. After the 2003 season, he was traded to the Los Angeles Dodgers with Jeff Weaver, following the 2005 season, he was selected in the Rule 5 draft by the Kansas City Royals. Weeden played his last season of baseball in 2006 with the Class-A High Desert Mavericks of the California League. Injuries and poor performance led Weeden to quit baseball, Weeden enrolled at Oklahoma State in 2007 and redshirted his first year. The following year, in 2008, he appeared in one game against Missouri State. Starting in 2009, Weeden played in three games, including one in the absence of injured Zac Robinson on Nov.19. Alex Cate started the game, but Weeden replaced him at halftime and led the Cowboys to an 11-point comeback victory, in 2010, Weeden was named the starter for the Oklahoma State Cowboys. In week two Weeden suffered an injury to his thumb, which led to two interceptions and two fumbles in a win over Troy. Weeden said, Hurt thumb, no thumb, whatever, it doesnt matter, I dont care if I dont have a thumb. Youve got to take the snaps and he followed that performance by throwing six touchdowns the following week. He was named Big-12 Offensive Player of the Week in the victory over Tulsa, the win helped move Oklahoma State into the Coaches Poll top 25 for the first time in 2010. Coach Gundy reflected on the win, Sometimes, you have games like that and we were rolling on all cylinders. Weeden added, We had a week of practice. It was a whole lot of fun tonight
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Justin Blackmon
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Justin Carl Blackmon is a former American football wide receiver who played for the Jacksonville Jaguars of the National Football League. He played college football at Oklahoma State, where he was recognized as a consensus All-American. He was drafted by the Jaguars fifth overall in the 2012 NFL Draft, after playing a full rookie season with the Jaguars, he was suspended for the first four games of 2013 for violations of the NFLs substance abuse policy. He was suspended indefinitely for another violation in November 2013, and has not played for the Jaguars since, Blackmon was born in Oceanside, California. He attended Plainview High School in Ardmore, Oklahoma, where he was a star in football, basketball, baseball. In basketball, he was the conference MVP as a junior, Blackmon also lettered once in track & field. At the 2008 Oklahoma State T&F Championships, he captured the title in the long jump with a leap of 7.01 meters, while also placing second in the high jump event. After spending the summer working on his 400-meter dash technique, he was challenged by his coach to run under 50 seconds, regarded as a three-star recruit by Rivals. com, Blackmon was listed as the No.91 wide receiver prospect in the class of 2008. Colorado and Missouri were among the programs seeking his signature, Blackmon received an athletic scholarship to attend Oklahoma State University, where he played for coach Mike Gundys Oklahoma State Cowboys football team from 2008 to 2011. He was redshirted as a freshman in 2008, and quickly earned a starting position in 2009. He was named the 2010 Big 12 Offensive Player of the Year and he was awarded the Fred Biletnikoff Award as the nations top receiver, and was recognized as a consensus first-team All-American. Blackmon also holds the NCAA records for most consecutive games gaining 100 yards or more and most games gaining 200 yards or more. Statistically, Blackmon caught 111 passes for 1,782 yards and 20 touchdowns in 12 games during the 2010 season and also added a pair of scores with a 69-yard run and this performance earned him the 15th-best season in NCAA history. Blackmon finished the 2011 regular season with 121 catches for 1,522 yards and 18 touchdowns and he led the Big 12 in receiving and ranked second nationally in both receptions per game and total receptions. His 15 touchdown catches led the league and represented the third-highest total in the nation, following his 2010 sophomore season, he was recognized as a unanimous first-team All-American. Blackmon announced at the 2012 Fiesta Bowl that he would declare for the NFL draft that year and he caught 8 passes for 186 yards and 3 touchdowns in the game. He was also named the 2012 Fiesta Bowl offensive MVP, source, Blackmon decided not to participate in any workouts at the NFL Combine, but he managed to erase questions about his long speed at the Oklahoma State Pro Day. He was considered the best wide receiver in the 2012 NFL Draft and he has been compared to Anquan Boldin and Terrell Owens
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Kendall Hunter
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Kendall Bernell Hunter is a Canadian football running back for the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League. He played college football for Oklahoma State University, and earned consensus All-American honors, the San Francisco 49ers selected him in the fourth round of the 2011 NFL Draft. Hunter was born in Tyler, Texas and he attended John Tyler High School in Tyler, where he played football and ran track. In football, he rushed for 1,200 yards and 14 touchdowns as a senior, considered a three-star recruit by Rivals. com, Hunter was listed as the No.40 running back prospect in the nation. Hunter suffered an injury in high school that limited his potential suitors. Hunter was a first-team all-district selection following his season during which he rushed for 1,056 yards. He also competed in track & field and he was timed at 11.3 seconds in the 100 meter dash as a senior. He was also a member of the 4 ×100 m relay, while attending Oklahoma State University, Hunter played for coach Mike Gundys Oklahoma State Cowboys football team from 2007 to 2010. He was the seventh leading rusher with 119.6 yards per game, including nine 100-yard rushing games. He led the Big 12 Conference in rushing by more than 30 yards per game and he was named a first-team All-American after his sophomore season in 2008, and was recognized as a consensus first-team All-American as a senior in 2010. As a senior, he was also a finalist for the Doak Walker award which was won by LaMichael James, Hunter was selected by the San Francisco 49ers in the fourth round in the 2011 NFL Draft. Hunter received his first start of his NFL career in week 4 of the 2011 season against the Philadelphia Eagles and he rushed for 473 yards and scored 2 touchdowns during the regular season in a backup role to starting running back Frank Gore. Late in the 2012 season Hunter was put on injured reserve with a torn Achilles, over the summer of 2013, Hunter reportedly rehabilitated at Cosumnes River College with physical therapist Weinshilboum according to a June 18 article in the Sacramento Bee. Hunter spent time performing parcour across the Cosumnes campus, Bee writer Yolanda Marie wrote, Hunter was activated off the physically unable to perform list on August 10,2013, nearly 8 1/2 months after he partially tore his left Achilles. On July 26,2014, Hunter was carted off the field due to a knee injury, later an MRI revealed that he tore his ACL. The 49ers waived/injured him on August 5, after clearing waivers he was placed on the 49ers injured reserve list. On December 16,2015, Hunter signed with the New Orleans Saints after starting running back Mark Ingram was placed on injured reserve, on January 1,2016, Hunter was placed on injured reserve. On March 1,2017, Hunter signed with the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League, Oklahoma State bio San Francisco 49ers bio
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Doak Walker Award
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The Doak Walker Award, first awarded in 1990, honors the top running back in college football in the United States. It is named in honor of Doak Walker, a halfback in college for the SMU Mustangs. The 2016 winner of the Doak Walker Award was DOnta Foreman of Texas, the award requires all candidates to be, in good academic standing, and on schedule to graduate within one year of students in their eligibility classification. The award recipient receives a sculpture of Doak Walker, cast in bronze and it was created by artist Blair Buswell, who has sculpted the busts of more than a dozen inductees in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. College Football Awards - Doak Walker Award
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Broyles Award
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The Broyles Award is an annual award given to honor the best assistant coach in college football. First awarded in 1996, it was named after former University of Arkansas mens athletic director Frank Broyles, the award is presented in Little Rock, Arkansas at the Downtown Rotary Club. To date 14 of the 20 winners have gone on to head football coaches. Each head coach can nominate one assistant coach from his staff, all nominations are reviewed by a selection committee composed of some of college footballs former head coaches. The five finalists meet in Little Rock, Arkansas, where each is presented with a $1,000 check, as well as a set of golf clubs and personalized golf bag. The winner receives $2,500, a watch, the Broyles Award Jacket custom-made by Tom James, as well as the trophy, valued at around $5,000. The Broyles Award Trophy, made out of bronze, depicts Broyles and longtime University of Arkansas assistant coach Wilson Matthews. Matthews was the coach of Little Rock Central High School before joining Broyles on the Razorbacks staff, the selection committee for the Frank Broyles Award includes many respected coaches from around the nation. The list of current committee members is as follows, Note, The award year indicates the season it was earned
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, also known simply as the PG, is the largest daily newspaper serving metropolitan Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. It has won six Pulitzer Prizes since 1938, the Post-Gazette began its history as a four-page weekly called The Pittsburgh Gazette, first published on July 29,1786 with the encouragement of Hugh Henry Brackenridge. It was the first newspaper published west of the Allegheny Mountains, published by Joseph Hall and John Scull, the paper covered the start of the nation. As one of its first major articles, the Gazette published the newly adopted Constitution of the United States, in 1820, under publishers Eichbaum and Johnston and editor Morgan Neville, the name changed to Pittsburgh Gazette and Manufacturing and Mercantile Advertiser. David MacLean bought the paper in 1822, and later reverted to the former title, craig, whose service lasted from 1829 to 1841, the Gazette championed the Anti-Masonic movement. Craig turned the Gazette into the citys first daily paper, issued every afternoon except Sunday starting on July 30,1833, in 1844, shortly after absorbing the Advocate, the Gazette switched its daily issue time to morning. Its editorial stance at the time was conservative and strongly favoring the Whig party, by the 1850s the Gazette was credited with helping to organize a local chapter of the new Republican Party, and with contributing to the election of Abraham Lincoln. The paper was one of the first to suggest tensions between North and South would erupt in war, after consolidating with the Commercial in 1877, the paper was again renamed and was then known as the Commercial Gazette. In 1900, George T. Oliver acquired the paper, merging it six years later with The Pittsburg Times to form The Gazette Times, the Pittsburgh Post first appeared on September 10,1842, as the Daily Morning Post. It had its origin in three pro-Democratic weeklies, the Mercury, Allegheny Democrat, and American Manufacturer, which came together through a pair of mergers in the early 1840s, the three papers had for years engaged in bitter editorial battles with the Gazette. Like its predecessors, the Post advocated the policies of the Democratic Party and its political opposition to the Whig and later Republican Gazette was so enduring that an eventual combination of the two rivals would have seemed unlikely. The 1920s were a time of consolidation in the long-overcrowded Pittsburgh newspaper market, in 1923, local publishers banded together to acquire and kill off the Dispatch and Leader. After swapping the Sun in return for Hearsts Gazette Times, Block had both morning papers, which he combined to form the Post-Gazette, hearst united the evening papers, creating the Sun-Telegraph. Both new papers debuted on August 2,1927, in 1960, Pittsburgh had three daily papers, the Post-Gazette in the morning, and the Pittsburgh Press and the Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph in the evening and on Sunday. The Post-Gazette bought the Sun-Telegraph and moved into the Sun-Telegraphs Grant Street offices, the Post-Gazette tried to publish a Sunday paper to compete with the Sunday Press but it was not profitable, rising costs in general were challenging the companys bottom line. In November 1961, the Post-Gazette entered into an agreement with the Pittsburgh Press Company to combine their production, the Post-Gazette owned and operated its own news and editorial departments, but production and distribution of the paper was handled by the larger Press office. This agreement stayed in place for over 30 years, the agreement gave the Post-Gazette a new home in the Press building, a comfortable upgrade from the hated Sun-Telly barn. Constructed for the Press in 1927 and expanded with a wall in 1962
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Charleston Gazette-Mail
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The Charleston Gazette-Mail is the only daily morning newspaper in Charleston, West Virginia. It is the product of a July 2015 merger between the Charleston Gazette and the Charleston Daily Mail, the Gazette traces its roots to 1873. At the time, it was a newspaper known as the Kanawha Chronicle. It was later renamed The Kanawha Gazette and the Daily Gazette—before its name was changed to The Charleston Gazette in 1907. In 1912 it came under the control of the Chilton family, William E. Chilton, a U. S. senator, was publisher of The Gazette, as were his son, William E. Chilton II, and grandson, W. E. In 1918 a fire destroyed the Gazette building at 909 Virginia St, the newspaper was moved to 227 Hale St. where it remained for 42 years. Ned Chilton used to claim that the job of a newspaper was to comfort the afflicted, the newspapers liberal reputation was enhanced by principal editorial writer and columnist L. T. Anderson, associate editor and two-time runner-up for the Pulitzer Prize, anderson later moved to the rival Daily Mail as a columnist after he was passed over for an editorial position at the Gazette, and often used his Daily Mail column to snipe at his former employer. The Daily Mail was founded in 1914 by former Alaska Governor Walter Eli Clark, Governor Clark described the newspaper as an independent Republican publication. In 1987, the Clark heirs sold the paper to the Toronto-based Thomson Newspapers, the new owners moderated the political views of the paper to some degree. In 1998, Thomson sold the Daily Mail to the Denver-based MediaNews Group, under a Joint Operating Agreement the two newspapers merged their production and distribution from 1961, while maintaining completely separate editorial operations. A combined Gazette-Mail was published on Sundays from 1961 to 1991, a similar combined Saturday edition was produced from 2009 to 2015. It was likewise produced by the Gazette staff, but featured two editorial pages, one produced by each papers staff, in 2004, the Gazette purchased the Daily Mail. In May 2007, the U. S. Department of Justice filed a lawsuit, the newspaper settled without trial and agreed a federal injunction prohibiting it from shutting down the Daily Mail until July 20,2015. The previous owner was to be paid a fee to produce the paper during that era, on July 20,2015, owners merged the Daily Mail and Gazette without prior notice and renamed the paper the Charleston Gazette-Mail. The entire staff of both papers was given notice and told to reapply for jobs at the new paper. On July 23,2015, the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation filed a $1.3 million lien on the company because of years of unpaid pension deposits. On August 19,2015, West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morriseys Consumer Protection Division announced it was investigating the company for state anti-trust violations
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Bowl Championship Series
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The system was in place for the 1998 through 2013 seasons and in 2014 was replaced by the College Football Playoff. The BCS was created to end split championships and for the champion to win the title on the field between the two selected by the BCS. The system also selected match-ups for four other prestigious BCS bowl games, the ten teams selected included the conference champion from each of the six Automatic Qualifying conferences plus four others. The BCS was created by agreement by those six conferences. For the 1998 through 2005 seasons eight teams competed in four BCS bowls and it had been in place since the 1998 season. The BCS replaced the Bowl Alliance, in place from 1995 to 1997, prior to the Bowl Coalitions creation in 1992, the AP Polls number one and two teams had met in a bowl game only 8 times in 56 seasons. The APs top two teams met 13 out of the 16 seasons the BCS was in place, in the 2014 season, the BCS was discontinued and replaced by the College Football Playoff, which organizes a four-team playoff and national championship game. The NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision is the only NCAA-sponsored sport without an officially organized NCAA tournament to determine its champion, instead, the postseason has historically consisted of individual bowl games. The bowl system began in 1902 with the first ever East-West game in Pasadena, California and this game was an exhibition game pitting a highly rated team from the west coast against a team from east of the Mississippi River. This was a time for a postseason game, as fans could take off work or school during this holiday period to travel to the game. In the first game, the University of Michigan Wolverines represented the east, due to the lopsided victory the game did not resume until 1916. The game was renamed the Rose Bowl in the 1920s when play shifted to the Rose Bowl stadium, by the 1930s, the Cotton Bowl Classic, Orange Bowl, and the Sugar Bowl were also held on January 1 to showcase teams from other regions of the country. By the 1940s, college football conferences began signing contracts that tied their team to a particular bowl. This system raised the possibility that the two top-ranked teams in the poll would not play each other in a bowl game. Under these circumstances, it was not uncommon to have the Coaches Poll crown a different national champion than the AP Poll and this situation arose a total of ten different seasons before BCS was formed. For example, in 1991, the University of Miami Hurricanes, since the Huskies were locked into the Rose Bowl as the Pac-10 Conference champion against Big Ten champion Michigan, they could not play then-independent Miami, who played in the Orange Bowl. Both teams won their bowl games convincingly and shared the championship, Miami winning the Associated Press poll. A split national championship has happened on occasions since then as well
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Orange Bowl
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The Orange Bowl is an annual American college football bowl game played at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida. This bowl game is sponsored by Capital One and part of the College Football Playoff and it has been played annually since January 1,1935. The Orange Bowl, along with the Sugar Bowl and the Sun Bowl, is the second-oldest bowl game in the country, behind the Rose Bowl. In its early years, the Orange Bowl had no defined conference tie-ins, from the 1950s until the mid-1990s, the Orange Bowl had a strong relationship with the Big 8 Conference. The champion was invited to the game in most years during this time. Opponents of the Big 8 varied, but were often major independents, runners-up in the Southeastern Conference, in the 1990s, the Orange Bowl was a member of the Bowl Coalition, but kept its Big 8 tie-in. It was later a member of the Bowl Alliance, from 1998 to 2013, The Orange Bowl was a member of the now-defunct Bowl Championship Series. The Orange Bowl served as the BCS National Championship Game in 2001 and 2005, however, beginning with the 2006 season, the BCS National Championship Game became a stand-alone event, hosted by the local bowl organization about one week following the New Years Day bowl games. Under that format the Orange Bowl Committee hosted two games in both 2009 and in 2013, all at Sun Life Stadium. The BCS ended after the 2013 season, being replaced by the current College Football Playoff, since 2007, the Orange Bowl has been host to the Atlantic Coast Conference champion unless they are involved in the national championship game and has used the brand Home of the ACC Champion. The 2013 match-up ended with the Florida State Seminoles, who won the ACC championship and this was the first time a non-AQ team that had suffered a loss previously in the season made it to the Orange Bowl. In 1890, Pasadena, California held its first Tournament of Roses Parade to showcase the citys mild weather compared to the winters in northern cities. As one of the said, In New York, people are buried in snow. Here, our flowers are blooming and our oranges are about to bear, lets hold a festival to tell the world about our paradise. In 1902, the festival was enhanced by adding an American football game. In 1926, leaders in Miami, Florida, decided to do the same with a Fiesta of the American Tropics that was centered around a New Years Day football game. Although a second Fiesta was never held, Miami leaders- Earnest E Seiler, later revived the idea with the Palm Festival, in 1932, George E. Hussey, official greeter of Miami, organized the first Festival of Palms Bowl, a predecessor of the Orange Bowl. With Miami suffering from both the Great Depression and the preceding Florida land bust, Hussey and other Miamians sought to help its economy by organizing a similar to Pasadenas Rose Bowl
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Clemson University
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Clemson University /ˈklɛmsən/ is an American public, coeducational, land-grant and sea-grant research university in Clemson, South Carolina. As of 2016, Clemson University enrolled a total of 18,599 undergraduate students for the semester and 4,807 graduate students. The cost of tuition and fees is about $14,882 and out-of-state tuition. U. S. News & World Report ranks Clemson University 23rd among all public universities. Clemson University is classified as a highest research activity university, thomas Green Clemson, the universitys founder, came to the foothills of South Carolina in 1838, when he married Anna Maria Calhoun, daughter of John C. Calhoun, a South Carolina statesman and seventh U. S and his decision was largely influenced by future South Carolina Governor Benjamin Tillman. Tillman lobbied the South Carolina General Assembly to create the school as an institution for the state. In November 1889, South Carolina Governor John Peter Richardson III signed the bill, as a result, federal funds for agricultural education from the Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act and the Hatch Act of 1887 were transferred from South Carolina College to Clemson. Construction of the college began with Hardin Hall in 1890 and then main classroom buildings in 1891, henry Aubrey Strode became the first president of Clemson from 1890 to 1893. Edwin Craighead succeeded Strode in 1893, Clemson Agricultural College formally opened in July 1893 with an initial enrollment of 446. The common curriculum of the first incoming students was English, history, botany, mathematics, physics, until 1955, the college was also an all-white male military school. On May 22,1894 Tillman Hall, the building on campus, was destroyed by a fire. The fire of 1894 consumed the library, classrooms and offices, Tillman Hall was rebuilt in 1894 and still stands today. The first graduating class of Clemson was in 1896 with degrees in mechanical-electrical engineering, Clemsons first football team began in 1896 with trainer Walter Riggs. Henry Hartzog, graduate of The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina, Hartzog created a textile department in 1898. Clemson became the first Southern school to train textile specialists, Hartzog expanded the curriculum with more industrialization skills such as foundry work, agriculture studies and mechanics. In 1902 a large student walkout over the use of military discipline escalated tensions between students and faculty forcing Hartzog to resign. Patrick Mell succeeded Hartzog from 1902 to 1910, following the resignation of Mell in 1910 former Clemson Tigers football coach Walter Riggs became president of Clemson from 1910 to 1924
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Mount Pleasant, Iowa
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Mount Pleasant is a city in and the county seat of Henry County, Iowa, in the United States. The population was 8,668 in the 2010 census, a decline from 8,751 in the 2000 census and it was founded in 1835 by pioneer Presley Saunders. Mount Pleasant was first incorporated as a town by European Americans in 1842, in 1869, Mount Pleasant was the site of a solar eclipse expedition, under the command of James Craig Watson and sponsored by National Almanac. The total solar eclipse occurred on August 7,1869, in the Union Block building in 1869, Arabella A. Mansfield became the first woman in the United States to be awarded a license to practice law. She had passed the bar exam with high scores and won a case for entry to the bar. The third floor of the Union Block housed the Opera House or Union Hall and it attracted national speakers on tour, including abolitionists Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, and Anna Dickinson. James Harlan also spoke there, as he was president of Iowa Wesleyan College in the town and this building had been considered one of the most endangered historic sites in Iowa. The Mount Pleasant Mental Health Institute was built in 1861, however, in 1936, a fire did great damage to the building. The hospital had to be closed, as little of the facility survived the fire, on December 10,1986, Ralph Orin Davis, a resident, walked into a city council meeting and shot Mayor Edward King and two council members. Mayor King died of his wounds after being shot point blank in the head, the 69-year-old gunman had attended a couple of previous meetings, complaining about a backed-up sewer and wanting the city to pay for damages to his house. The two council members were seriously wounded, tom Vilsack was the replacement mayor, later becoming governor for 8 years, and then Secretary of Agriculture for 8 years. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 8.53 square miles. Mount Pleasants population density is estimated at 1123 people per mile which is considered low for urban areas. As of the census of 2010, there were 8,668 people,3,127 households, the population density was 1,018.6 inhabitants per square mile. There were 3,365 housing units at a density of 395.4 per square mile. The racial makeup of the city was 85. 7% White,4. 3% African American,0. 4% Native American,4. 4% Asian,0. 3% Pacific Islander,2. 4% from other races, and 2. 5% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 6. 7% of the population,33. 3% of all households were made up of individuals and 15% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.31 and the family size was 2.94
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Valdosta State University
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Valdosta State University, also referred to as VSU, or Valdosta State, is an American public university and is one of the four comprehensive universities in the University System of Georgia. Valdosta State is located on a 168-acre campus at the heart of the city of Valdosta, VSU also offers classes at Moody Air Force Base north of Valdosta in Lowndes County. Degree levels offered at Valdosta State include, Associates, Bachelors, Masters, Education Specialist, the university comprises the colleges of Arts and Sciences, Business Administration, Education, Arts, and Nursing. The Graduate School also includes the Divisions of Social Work and Library Science, VSU is also home to the four-week residential Governors Honors Program during the summer for academically and artistically oriented Georgia high school students. The school that would become Valdosta State University was founded in 1906, West led the legislation through the Georgia Senate, and C. R. Ashley and E. J. McRee pushed it through the House, however, no funds were appropriated for it until 1911 when the state allocated $25,000. The city of Valdosta raised $50,000, and Col. West gave the property that is now the part of campus to the state for use by the new institution. The president chosen was Richard Holmes Powell and his travels in the American southwest led him to choose the Spanish Mission style of architecture for the institutions buildings. The school opened as South Georgia State Normal College in January 1913, the early students were required to wear a school uniform and paid $10 per year for tuition and $12 per month for food and board. Most came to be teachers and studied subjects from literature to physics to agriculture, Dr. Jere M. Pound, President of the Georgia Teachers College, was sent to Valdosta. However, his tenure at GSWC lasted less than a year before he had to go on sick leave and he died a year later in 1935. Dr. Frank Robertson Reade assumed the job of acting president in 1934, during his tenure, New Deal programs enabled the school to expand physically from three to seven buildings. The Powell Library, dedicated by Eleanor Roosevelt, was a centerpiece of this construction, during World War II, GSWC emphasized politics and science in its curriculum and in 1943, the B. S. degree was added. Moody Airfield, located nine miles from campus, provided the participants for many patriotic parties. Dr. Reade served until 1948, he was followed by Dr. Ralph Thaxton, who came from the University of Georgia, where he had served as professor, Dean, Director of Admissions, and Registrar. Soon after Dr. Programs in premedical, predentistry, and prepharmacy were added, Business became a popular major after 1950. By 1956 men on campus outnumbered the women, Greek organizations were formed, with fraternities leading the way, and intercollegiate athletics became a part of campus life when the Rebels, an all-male basketball team, was formed. Under Dr. Thaxtons tenure, the College integrated in 1963, over the next decade, the college added African-American students, faculty and administrators
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Cross laminated timber
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Cross-laminated timber is a wood panel product made from solid-sawn lumber. Each layer of boards are orientated perpendicular to adjacent layers and glued on the faces of each board. An odd number of layers is most common but there are configurations with even numbers as well, the cross gluing allows using the panels with two span directions whereby some differences in stiffness and strength are observed along the two directions. It is similar to plywood but with distinctively thicker laminations, CLT is distinct to glued laminated timber, a product with all laminations orientated in the same way. CLT is claimed to be as strong and fire-resistant as structural steel or concrete, in 2016, plans were proposed for a 40-storey CLT building in Stockholm and a 100-storey tower in London. In September 2016 the worlds first timber mega-tube structure was built at the Chelsea College of Arts in London, the 115 feet long Smile was designed by architect Alison Brooks and engineered by Arup, in collaboration with the American Hardwood Export Council, for the London Design Festival. With its 3,852 cubic metres of CLT, Dalston Lane at Dalston Square is the largest CLT project globally, ramboll carried out full structural engineering and the design of the 33m CLT structure. In the United States, Framework in Portland, Oregon will utilize CLT for its 12 story structure to become the tallest timber building in North America, mass timber design wins regional award - Wooden parking garage
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2011 West Virginia Mountaineers football team
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The 2011 West Virginia Mountaineer football team represented West Virginia University in the 2011 NCAA Division I FBS football season as members of the Big East Conference. The Mountaineers were led by Dana Holgorsen, who was his first season as head coach, West Virginia played their home games on Mountaineer Field at Milan Puskar Stadium in Morgantown, West Virginia. They finished the season 10–3, 5–2 in Big East play to earn a share of the Big East Conference championship with Cincinnati, the Mountaineers earned the leagues automatic berth in the BCS due to being the highest ranked of the Big East champions in the final BCS rankings. They were invited to the Orange Bowl for the first time ever where they defeated Clemson 70–33, West Virginia is now 3–0 in BCS games and the 70 points in the Orange Bowl is the most points ever scored by one team in a bowl game. The 2010 West Virginia Mountaineers finished the season at 9–4 with a 5–2 record in Big East play and they shared the 2010 Big East Football Championship with Pittsburgh and Connecticut, with Connecticut earning the Big East BCS bid by way of tie-breaker. The Mountaineers were invited to the Champs Sports Bowl where they were defeated by North Carolina State 23–7, on December 16,2010 West Virginia University announced the hiring of former Oklahoma State offensive coordinator Dana Holgorsen. Holgorsen replaces Jeff Mullen as offensive coordinator and will take over as the Mountaineers head coach in 2012, on January 5,2011 the Mountaineers announced the hiring of three offensive coaches, Robert Gillespie, Bill Bedenbaugh, and Shannon Dawson. On March 10,2011 it was announced that lone offensive staff holdover Lonnie Galloway has left West Virginia to take a job at Wake Forest. On March 28,2011 West Virginia University announced the hiring of Daron Roberts as an assistant coach, Roberts will be working with wide receivers and special teams. On June 10,2011 West Virginia University announced that Bill Stewart had resigned as head coach, Holgorsen has stated he will serve as his own offensive coordinator but that he was unsure who would fill the extra spot on the coaching staff. On July 8,2011 Head Coach Dana Holgorsen hired Alex Hammond as recruiting coordinator, the Mountaineers have retained the entire 2010 defensive coaching staff for the 2011 season. Over 22,000 fans attended to see the Gold team defeat the Blue team 83–17, the game was televised statewide on West Virginia Media stations. The Mountaineers were picked to win the Big East Conference by the media at conference media day, picking up 21 out of 24 first place votes. Series Lead, West Virginia leads 10–0 Recap, WVU picked up the win in a game that was delayed a total of 4 hours,22 minutes and called with 14,36 left in the 4th quarter. Once resuming play a Vernard Roberts one-yard touchdown run extended the WVU lead to 34–13 early in the quarter, after which the game was once again delayed for lightning. It was ultimately agreed to by both teams to end the game, Geno Smith lead the game for WVU going 26–35 for 246 yards and two touchdowns. Recap, The Mountaineers overcame a sluggish first half exploding for 45 second half points, Geno Smith went 20–34 for 371 yards and 4 TDs passing. As a team WVU passed for 431 yards, the most since 1998, the lead was built to 24, 34–10, in the third quarter on a Smith connection to high school teammate Stedman Bailey
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2012 Orange Bowl
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The 2012 Discover Orange Bowl was a postseason college football bowl game on Wednesday, January 4,2012, at Sun Life Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida. The West Virginia Mountaineers defeated the Clemson Tigers by a score of 70–33, West Virginia tied or broke eight separate team and individual bowl game records, while the combined 69 points West Virginia and Clemson scored in the first half set another new record. The game was part of the 2011–2012 Bowl Championship Series of the 2011 NCAA Division I FBS football season and was the game of the season for both teams. The two schools were meeting for the second time, coming into the game, Clemson had a 1–0 record over WVU, with a 27–7 victory in the 1989 Gator Bowl. This was Clemsons fourth appearance in the Orange Bowl, while it marked the first time WVU had been invited, both teams averaged at least 33 points and over 440 yards per game. West Virginia finished the season in a tie for the Big East title. The team scored 419 points this season, fourth highest average in school history, the Mountaineers scored 30 or more points in eight games,40 or more points in four games and 50 or more points in two games during 2011. This years team set a new mark in the passing game with receiver Stedman Bailey accounting for 1,197 yards. Clemson won its first ACC Championship in 20 years and earned an appearance in its first major bowl since 1981, the Tigers were 21st in the nation in passing with 285 yards per game. The team was led by quarterback Tajh Boyd, who was 18th in total offense, and by wide receiver Sammy Watkins, Watkins was also rated top-25 in receptions per game and kickoff returns. West Virginia and Clemson together set or tied nine separate bowl records at the Orange Bowl, Team touchdowns, combined points in a half, The 69 points between West Virginia and Clemson at halftime set a new record. Total points, West Virginias 70 points broke the record set 1 week earlier by Baylor in the 2011 Alamo Bowl, points in a quarter, West Virginias 35 points in the second quarter set a new record. Points in a half, West Virginias 49 points in the first half set a new record, the previous record was 45, held by Colorado at the 1999 Insight. com Bowl and Oklahoma State at the 1988 Holiday Bowl. Individual passing touchdowns, Geno Smiths six touchdowns tied Chuck Longs record in the 1984 Freedom Bowl, individual total touchdowns, Smith also rushed for a touchdown, giving him seven overall which tied another record. Individual total points, Smiths seven touchdowns scored 42 points, also tying a record, individual receiving touchdowns, Tavon Austins four touchdown receptions, becoming the fourth player to do so in a bowl game
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2012 West Virginia Mountaineers football team
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The 2012 West Virginia Mountaineers football team represented West Virginia University in the 2012 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The season marked the Mountaineers first season as members of the Big 12 Conference, the Mountaineers were led by Dana Holgorsen in his second season as head coach. West Virginia played its games on Mountaineer Field at Milan Puskar Stadium in Morgantown. They finished the season 7–6, 4–5 in Big 12 play to finish in a four way tie for fifth place and they were invited to the Pinstripe Bowl where they were defeated by longtime rival Syracuse. Oklahoma,396 West Virginia,339 Texas 291 Oklahoma State,267 TCU,260 Kansas State,257 Baylor,162 Iowa State,121 Texas Tech,116 Kansas,46
