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American football
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The offense must advance at least ten yards in four downs, or plays, or else they turn over the football to the opposing team, if they succeed, they are given a new set of four downs. Points are primarily scored by advancing the ball into the teams end zone for a touchdown or kicking the ball through the opponents goalposts for a field goal. The team with the most points at the end of a game wins, American football evolved in the United States, originating from the sports of association football and rugby football. The first game of American football was played on November 6,1869, during the latter half of the 1870s, colleges playing association football switched to the Rugby Union code, which allowed carrying the ball. American football as a whole is the most popular sport in the United States, Professional football and college football are the most popular forms of the game, with the other major levels being high school and youth football. As of 2012, nearly 1.1 million high school athletes and 70,000 college athletes play the sport in the United States annually, almost all of them men, in the United States, American football is referred to as football. The term football was established in the rulebook for the 1876 college football season. The terms gridiron or American football are favored in English-speaking countries where other codes of football are popular, such as the United Kingdom, Ireland, New Zealand, American football evolved from the sports of association football and rugby football. What is considered to be the first American football game was played on November 6,1869 between Rutgers and Princeton, two college teams, the game was played between two teams of 25 players each and used a round ball that could not be picked up or carried. It could, however, be kicked or batted with the feet, hands, head or sides, Rutgers won the game 6 goals to 4. Collegiate play continued for years in which matches were played using the rules of the host school. Representatives of Yale, Columbia, Princeton and Rutgers met on October 19,1873 to create a set of rules for all schools to adhere to. Teams were set at 20 players each, and fields of 400 by 250 feet were specified, Harvard abstained from the conference, as they favored a rugby-style game that allowed running with the ball. An 1875 Harvard-Yale game played under rugby-style rules was observed by two impressed Princeton athletes and these players introduced the sport to Princeton, a feat the Professional Football Researchers Association compared to selling refrigerators to Eskimos. Princeton, Harvard, Yale and Columbia then agreed to play using a form of rugby union rules with a modified scoring system. These schools formed the Intercollegiate Football Association, although Yale did not join until 1879, the introduction of the snap resulted in unexpected consequences. Prior to the snap, the strategy had been to punt if a scrum resulted in bad field position, however, a group of Princeton players realized that, as the snap was uncontested, they now could hold the ball indefinitely to prevent their opponent from scoring. In 1881, both teams in a game between Yale-Princeton used this strategy to maintain their undefeated records, each team held the ball, gaining no ground, for an entire half, resulting in a 0-0 tie
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Basketball
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Basketball is a non-contact team sport played on a rectangular court by two teams of five players each. The objective is to shoot a ball through a hoop 18 inches in diameter and 10 feet high that is mounted to a backboard at each end of the court. The game was invented in 1891 by Dr. James Naismith, a team can score a field goal by shooting the ball through the basket being defended by the opposition team during regular play. A field goal scores three points for the team if the player shoots from behind the three-point line. A team can also score via free throws, which are worth one point, the team with the most points at the end of the game wins, but additional time is mandated when the score is tied at the end of regulation. The ball can be advanced on the court by passing it to a teammate and it is a violation to lift, or drag, ones pivot foot without dribbling the ball, to carry it, or to hold the ball with both hands then resume dribbling. The game has many techniques for displaying skill—ball-handling, shooting, passing, dribbling, dunking, shot-blocking. The point guard directs the on court action of the team, implementing the coachs game plan, Basketball is one of the worlds most popular and widely viewed sports. Outside North America, the top clubs from national leagues qualify to continental championships such as the Euroleague, the FIBA Basketball World Cup attracts the top national teams from around the world. Each continent hosts regional competitions for teams, like EuroBasket. The FIBA Womens Basketball World Cup features the top womens basketball teams from continental championships. The main North American league is the WNBA, whereas the EuroLeague Women has been dominated by teams from the Russian Womens Basketball Premier League, in early December 1891, Canadian Dr. He sought a vigorous indoor game to keep his students occupied, after rejecting other ideas as either too rough or poorly suited to walled-in gymnasiums, he wrote the basic rules and nailed a peach basket onto a 10-foot elevated track. Basketball was originally played with a soccer ball and these laces could cause bounce passes and dribbling to be unpredictable. Eventually a lace-free ball construction method was invented, and this change to the game was endorsed by Naismith, dribbling was not part of the original game except for the bounce pass to teammates. Passing the ball was the means of ball movement. Dribbling was eventually introduced but limited by the shape of early balls. Dribbling only became a part of the game around the 1950s
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Reynolds, Nebraska
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Reynolds is a village in Jefferson County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 69 at the 2010 census, reynolds was platted in 1880 when the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad was extended to that point. It was named for the father of a railroad conductor, reynolds is located at 40°3′37″N 97°20′5″W. According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has an area of 0.25 square miles. As of the census of 2010, there were 69 people,40 households, the population density was 276.0 inhabitants per square mile. There were 46 housing units at a density of 184.0 per square mile. The racial makeup of the village was 100. 0% White,57. 5% of all households were made up of individuals and 32. 5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 1.73 and the family size was 2.69. The median age in the village was 51.2 years. 18. 8% of residents were under the age of 18,5. 7% were between the ages of 18 and 24,15. 9% were from 25 to 44,30. 4% were from 45 to 64, and 29% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the village was 46. 4% male and 53. 6% female, as of the census of 2000, there were 88 people,44 households, and 24 families residing in the village. The population density was 346.4 people per square mile, there were 53 housing units at an average density of 208.6 per square mile. The racial makeup of the village was 96. 59% White,2. 27% Asian,38. 6% of all households were made up of individuals and 20. 5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.00 and the family size was 2.68. In the village, the population was out with 21. 6% under the age of 18,2. 3% from 18 to 24,27. 3% from 25 to 44,23. 9% from 45 to 64. The median age was 44 years, for every 100 females there were 91.3 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 97.1 males, as of 2000 the median income for a household in the village was $16,250, and the median income for a family was $37,500. Males had an income of $45,417 versus $17,500 for females
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Mesa, Arizona
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Mesa is a city in Maricopa County, in the U. S. state of Arizona, and is a suburb located about 20 miles east of Phoenix. Mesa is the city of the East Valley section of the Phoenix Metropolitan Area. It is bordered by Tempe on the west, the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community on the north, Chandler and Gilbert on the south, as of the 2010 Census Mesa became Arizonas center of population. Mesa is the third-largest city in Arizona, after Phoenix and Tucson, the city is home to 439,041 people as of 2010 according to the Census Bureau. Mesa is home to higher education facilities including the Polytechnic campus of Arizona State University. The history of Mesa dates back at least 2,000 years to the arrival of the Hohokam people, the Hohokam, whose name means All Used Up or The Departed Ones, built the original canal system. The canals were the largest and most sophisticated in the prehistoric New World, some were up to 90 feet wide and ten feet deep at their head gates, extending for as far as 16 miles across the desert. By A. D.1100 water could be delivered to an area over 110,000 acres, by A. D.1450, the Hohokam had constructed hundreds of miles of canals many of which are still in use today. After the disappearance of the Hohokam and before the arrival of the early settlers little is known, by the late 19th century near present-day Mesa, U. S. Army troops subdued the Apache opening the way for settlement. Mormon pioneer Daniel Webster Jones led an expedition to found a Mormon settlement in Arizona, leaving St. George, Utah in March 1877, Jones and others arrived at Lehi, an area within the northern edge of present-day Mesa. Jones had been asked by Mormon officials to direct a party of people in establishing a settlement in Arizona. This settlement was known as Jonesville and Fort Utah and did not receive the name of Lehi until 1883. At the same time, another group dubbed the First Mesa Company arrived from Utah and their leaders were named Francis Martin Pomeroy, Charles Crismon, George Warren Sirrine and Charles I. Rather than accepting an invitation to settle at Jones Lehi settlement and they dug irrigation canals, some of which were over the original Hohokam canals, and by April 1878, water was flowing through them. The Second Mesa Company arrived in 1879 and settled to the west of where the First Mesa Company settled in 1880, on July 17,1878, Mesa City was registered as a 1-square-mile townsite. The first school was built in 1879, in 1883, Mesa City was incorporated with a population of 300 people. Dr. A. J. Chandler, who would go on to found the city of Chandler. In 1917, the city of Mesa purchased the utility company, the revenues from the company provided enough for capital expenditures until the 1960s
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Creighton Bluejays football
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The first year of Creighton Bluejays football was in 1900. They fielded a team every year from 1900 to 1942. Creighton adopted a Bluejay as its mascot in 1924, when the University’s athletic board selected the name from submissions for a contest run by the Omaha Bee newspaper, the Bluejays won two North Central Conference championships and one Missouri Valley Conference championship. In 1942, every player was drafted to fight in World War II. To this day, the Creighton bookstore sells T-shirts that read, Creighton Football, Still Undefeated, List of Creighton Bluejays football seasons List of Creighton Bluejays football opponents Images of Creighton football players at Creighton digital collections
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Creighton Bluejays men's basketball
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The Creighton Bluejays mens basketball team is the NCAA Division I mens basketball program of Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska. They currently compete in the Big East Conference, the Bluejays have won a record 15 MVC regular season conference titles and a record 12 MVC Conference Tournament titles. The team has 20 appearances in the NCAA Division I Mens Basketball Tournament, the Jays last played in the NCAA Division I Mens Basketball Tournament in 2017. The Bluejays all-time record is 1, 444–964, the Bluejays play their home games at CenturyLink Center Omaha. Creighton finished sixth nationally in attendance, averaging 17,048 fans per home game in 2014–15. Before joining the Big East, Creighton had been a member of the Missouri Valley Conference until June 30,2013, the Jays participated as an independent from 1948 to 1977 before rejoining the MVC. Arthur Schabinger took over the program after Kearneys graduation and he guided the team into its first conference, the North Central Conference, in 1923. His teams would win 4 titles in the league, in 1928, Shabinger would again guide Creighton to another conference, the Missouri Valley Conference. Creightons winningest mens basketball coach for 75 years, Arthur A. Schabinger helped build the Creighton basketball program, Schabinger posted a 165-66 record as coach of the Bluejays from 1922 to 1935. Eleven of his 13 teams finished first or second in the league, Eddie Hickey took over the program for the 1935–36 season. Hickey was reared in small-town Nebraska and graduated from Creighton University School of Law in 1926, sawed-off at 55, Edward The Little Giant Hickey was a dynamic chunky man who had quarterbacked Creighton university football in the Roaring 20s. He was enamored more by the game he could if not, obviously lacking size. He was the coach of both the football and basketball teams at Creighton Preparatory for eight years before moving to Creighton University. Hickey was a master of the fast-break and winning and he immediately led the Bluejays to the Missouri Valley title in his first season. Their fast break – controlled fast break Eddie would emphasize sarcastically – featured an explosive movement that required the ball not to hit the floor. The Little Giant would take Creighton to new heights by the early 1940s, with 1943 Consensus First Team All American Ed Beisser in the middle, Hickey would lead the Jays to their first NCAA Tournament and two National Invitation Tournaments, including a Final Four in 1942. With his flair for run-sheep-run basketball, Hickey and his teams were a show in the Big Apple. World War II would briefly suspend Creightons basketball program and Hickey would return to coach for one year after the war before moving on to St. Louis
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Saint Louis Billikens men's basketball
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The Saint Louis Billikens mens basketball team is the intercollegiate mens basketball program representing Saint Louis University. They compete in the Atlantic 10 Conference, the head coaching position is currently held by Travis Ford. Chaifetz Arena is home to the Billikens, the Billikens have reached the championship game of the NIT tournament four times and have won it once. They have appeared in the NCAA Mens Division I Basketball Tournament nine times, each year, the Billikens play Atlantic 10 rival University of Dayton for the rights to the Arch Baron Cup. Saint Louis holds a record of 25–29 in the Arch Baron rivalry. Source The Billikens have appeared in nine NCAA Tournaments, the Billikens have appeared in 18 National Invitation Tournaments. They were NIT champions in 1948 and runner-up in 1961,1989, the Arch Baron Cup has been played three times in the NIT against Dayton, in 1952,1955, and 1961, with a 1–2 record. The 1961 NIT semifinal matchup is most notable as Saint Louis beat Dayton to move to the final game, the Billikens have appeared in one College Basketball Invitational. Their record is 3–2 and they were the CBI runnerup in their only appearance
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Marquette Golden Eagles men's basketball
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The Marquette Golden Eagles mens basketball team represents Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Marquette currently competes in the Big East and it last played in the NCAA Division I Mens Basketball Tournament in 2013, but was selected for the upcoming 2017 tournament. The team plays its games at the BMO Harris Bradley Center in downtown Milwaukee. Despite only having 8,000 undergraduates, Marquette was ranked 10th in average attendance among NCAA Division 1 teams in 2009 and 2010. Source, Marquette is the university to spurn an NCAA invite and did so due to a low seeding in the 1970 NCAA Tournament. They were ranked 8th in the country at the time and were one of the favorites to win the NCAA championship and they were invited to the 1970 NIT which they won. The NCAA later instituted a rule which forbid an NCAA Division I level mens basketball team from spurning an NCAA bid for an NIT bid, an antitrust case by the NIT ensued over this issue, and the NCAA settled out of court. The following numbers have been retired by Marquette, Players currently in the NBA Players formerly in the NBA List is as of 2015–16 season
