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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
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Marquette Golden Eagles
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They compete as a member of the NCAA Division I level, primarily competing in the Big East Conference for all sports since the 2005–06 season. The Golden Eagles previously competed in Conference USA from 1995–96 to 2004–05, the Great Midwest Conference from 1991–92 to 1994–95 and they also competed as an independent from 1916–17 to 1987–88. The mens basketball won the NCAA national championship in 1977, and was a finalist in 1974. The 1970 team won the National Invitation Tournament, the NCAA tournament in 1970 included just 25 teams, the nickname change to Golden Eagles came in May 1994. Eleven years later, the university added Gold to the nickname in May 2005, on December 15,2012, Marquette and the other six Catholic, non-FBS Big East schools announced that they were departing the Big East for a new conference. In March 2013, it was confirmed that the Catholic 7, the mens basketball team is ninth in the NCAA for postseason appearances all-time, including 30 NCAA Tournament appearances. The Warriors, coached by Al McGuire, won the 1977 NCAA Tournament and were runners-up in 1974, maurice Bo Ellis was a member of each of those teams, and remains the only Marquette player to appear in two Final Fours. The 2003 team, coached by Tom Crean and led on the court by Dwyane Wade, Robert Jackson, Steve Novak, in that Midwest regional final in Minneapolis, Wade became the fourth player to record a triple-double in an NCAA tournament game. He was named an AP All-American two years in a row and was the Conference USA Player of the Year, Marquette has continued to re-emerge as a national power after 2003. The program has made seven straight NCAA tournament appearances dating back to 2006, Conference affiliations The womens basketball team is coached by Carolyn Kieger. Most recently, the team made it to the round of the NCAA tournament in 2011. Marquette womens basketball has qualified for the NCAA tournament seven times since 1994, the team now plays in the Al McGuire Center, named after the former Marquette mens coach. In 2006, Marquette traveled to St. Thomas to participate in the Paradise Jam Tournament, in the opening round Marquette defeated Western Michigan 74–61. In the second round Marquette defeated Auburn 65–61, on the final day, Marquette beat Xavier 73–53 to finish with a 3–0 record and win the 2006 Paradise Jam Championship. The cross-country and track teams have produced five Olympians,13 NCAA champions and 27 All-Americans, except for Dwyane Wade, Marquettes most successful student-athlete was track and field sprinter Ralph Metcalfe, a world-record holder and Olympic gold medalist. Shimek set the record in the mile in 1927 and it held up for over thirty years. Track missed three spring seasons and returned in March 1964, initially without scholarships, the varsity football team was known as the Golden Avalanche prior to the program being terminated in 1960. Marquette football posted several successful seasons in the 1920s and 1930s including undefeated seasons in 1922,1923, from 1922 to 1923 Marquette held a 17–0–1 record and outscored its opponents 374–15
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National Invitation Tournament
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The National Invitation Tournament is a mens college basketball tournament operated by the National Collegiate Athletic Association. Played at Madison Square Garden in New York City each March and April, over time it became eclipsed by the NCAA Division I Mens Basketball Tournament – known today informally as March Madness and The Big Dance. The NIT has since been regarded more as a tournament for teams that did not receive a berth in the NCAA tournament. A second, much more recent NIT tournament is played in November, formerly the Preseason NIT, it was founded in 1985. Like the postseason NIT, its final rounds are played at Madison Square Garden, both tournaments were operated by the Metropolitan Intercollegiate Basketball Association until 2005, when they were purchased by the NCAA, and the MIBA disbanded. Unless otherwise qualified, the terms NIT or National Invitation Tournament refer to the tournament in both common and official use. The first NIT was won by the Temple University Owls over the Colorado Buffaloes and this became the Metropolitan Intercollegiate Basketball Association in 1948. Originally the tournament invited a field of 6 teams, with all games played at Madison Square Garden in downtown Manhattan. The field was expanded to 8 teams in 1941,12 in 1949,14 in 1965,16 in 1968,24 in 1979,32 in 1980, in 2007, the tournament reverted to the current 32-team format. Some conferences, such as the Southeastern Conference, were racially segregated, from its onset and at least into the mid-1950s, the NIT was regarded as the most prestigious showcase for college basketball. The winner of the National Invitation Tournament was regarded as more of a national champion than the actual, titular, national champion, several teams played in both the NIT and NCAA tournaments in the same year, beginning with Colorado and Duquesne in 1940. Colorado won the NIT in 1940 but subsequently finished fourth in the NCAA West Region, in 1949, some Kentucky players were bribed by gamblers to lose their first round game in the NIT. This same Kentucky team went on to win the NCAA, the champions of both the NCAA and NIT tournaments played each other for a few years during World War II. From 1943 to 1945, the American Red Cross sponsored a charity game between each years tournament champions to raise money for the war effort. The series was described by Ray Meyer as not just benefit games, the NCAA champion prevailed in all three games. The Helms Athletic Foundation retroactively selected the NIT champion as its champion for 1938. In 1943 the NCAA tournament moved to share Madison Square Garden with the NIT in an effort to increase the credibility of the NCAA Tournament. In 1945, The New York Times indicated that many teams could get bids to enter either tournament, the team played in the NIT instead, which it won
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Missouri Valley Conference
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The Missouri Valley Conference is the second-oldest collegiate athletic conference in the United States. Currently, its members are located in the midwestern United States, the conference participates in the NCAAs Division I. The MVC was founded in 1907 as the Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association,12 years after the Big Ten, however, some consider the MVC to have been formed from a split of the MVIAA in 1928. Most of the schools formed a conference that retained the MVIAA name. The smaller schools, plus Oklahoma A&M, formed the MVC, during the Big Eights existence, both conferences claimed 1907 as their founding date, as well as the same history through 1927. During the 2006–07 college basketball season, MVC teams held a 74–27 non-conference record, including a record of 44–1 at home. The Valley finished in the top six of the RPI and ahead of a BCS conference for the second year, while also garnering multiple NCAA bids for the ninth straight year. The MVC has not sponsored football since 1985, when it was a hybrid I-A/I-AA, however, five members have football programs in the Missouri Valley Football Conference of Division I FCS, and a sixth competes in another FCS conference, the Pioneer Football League. The Missouri Valley Conference shares its name with the Missouri Valley Football Conference, however, the two are separate administratively. It has been reported that Wichita State will likely be leaving the conference to join the American Athletic Conference as soon as 2017–18 season, Bradley returned to the MVC for non-football sports in the 1955–56 school year, with Drake doing the same a year later. However, Bradley never returned to MVC football, dropping the sport in 1970, note, In the case of spring sports, the year of joining is the calendar year before the start of competition. Notes Notes Full members Assoc. members Assoc. member C. E. McClung Arthur E. Eilers Norvell Neve DeWitt T. Weaver Mickey Holmes David Price Richard D. Martin James A. Haney Doug Elgin The Missouri Valley Conference sponsors championship competition in eight mens, Central Arkansas and SIU Edwardsville are Affiliate members for mens soccer, Dallas Baptist is an Affiliate member for baseball, and Little Rock is an Affiliate member for swimming and diving. * = Baseball associate Dallas Baptist ** = Soccer associates Central Arkansas and SIU Edwardsville *** = Tennis associates Stony Brook, mens varsity sports not sponsored by the Missouri Valley Conference which are played by Valley schools, * = Affiliate Little Rock. † = To be added in 2017–18, NB, Missouri State was known as Southwest Missouri State until August 2005. One member sold out every game for the 2006–07 season. In 2010–11, 2011–12, and 2012–13, the Valley maintained its position as the eighth ranked conference in average attendance. The Valley made history in March 2007 with record attendance for four days at St. Louis Scottrade Center as 85,074 fans turned out to watch the five sessions of the tournament, Missouri Valley Conference Hall of Fame Official website
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Henry Iba Award
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The Henry Iba Award was established in 1959 to recognize the best college basketball coach of the year by the United States Basketball Writers Association. Five nominees are presented and the individual with the most votes receives the award, the award is named for Henry Iba, who coached at Oklahoma State from 1934 to 1970. Iba won the NCAA College Championship in 1945 and 1946 and coached the U. S. Olympic Teams to two medals in 1964 and 1968. The award is presented at the Oscar Robertson Trophy Breakfast on the Friday before the Final Four, legendary UCLA Bruins coach John Wooden has the most all–time selections with seven. Of the seven other coaches with multiple Henry Iba Awards, none have received it more than twice, not including Woodens seven awards, the school with the second–most winners is Ohio State, which has had two coaches win a total of three awards
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Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame
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The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame is an American history museum and hall of fame, located at 1000 Hall of Fame Avenue in Springfield, Massachusetts. It serves as the sports most complete library, in addition to promoting and preserving the history of basketball, dedicated to Canadian physician and inventor of the sport James Naismith, it was opened and inducted its first class in 1959. As of the induction of the Class of 2016 on September 9,2016, the Naismith Hall of Fame was established in 1959 by Lee Williams, a former athletic director at Colby College. In the 1960s, the Basketball Hall of Fame struggled to raise money for the construction of its first facility. The Basketball Hall of Fames Board named four inductees in its first year, in addition to honoring those who contributed to basketball, the Hall of Fame sought to make contributions of its own. In 1979, the Hall of Fame sponsored the Tip-Off Classic and this Tip-Off Classic has been the start to the college basketball season ever since, and although it does not always take place in Springfield, Massachusetts, generally it returns every few years. In the 17 years that the original Basketball Hall of Fame operated at Springfield College, the popularity of the Basketball Hall of Fame necessitated that a new facility be constructed, and in 1985, an $11 million facility was built beside the scenic Connecticut River in Springfield. As the new hall opened, it also recognized women for the first time, with such as Senda Berenson Abbott. In 2002, the Basketball Hall of Fame moved again—albeit merely 100 yards south along Springfields riverfront—into a $47 million facility designed by renowned architects Gwathmey Siegel & Associates, the buildings architecture features a metallic silver, basketball-shaped sphere flanked by two similarly symmetrical rhombuses. The dome is illuminated at night and features 80,000 square foot, including numerous restaurants, the second Basketball Hall of Fame was not torn down but rather converted into an LA Fitness health clubs. The current Basketball Hall of Fame features Center Court, a basketball court on which visitors can play. Inside the building there are a gallery, many interactive exhibits, several theaters. A large theater for ceremonies seats up to 300, the honorees inducted in 2002 included the Harlem Globetrotters and Magic Johnson, a five-time NBA champion, three-time NBA finals MVP and Olympic gold medalist. As of 2011, the current Basketball Hall of Fame has greatly exceeded attendance expectations, despite the new facilitys success, a logistical problem remains for the Basketball Hall of Fame and the City of Springfield. Urban planners at universities such as UMass Amherst have called for the I-91 to be moved, in 2010, the Urban Land Institute announced a plan to make the walk between Springfields Metro Center and the Hall of Fame easier. Since 2011, the induction process employs a total of seven committees to both screen and elect candidates, since 2011, the Veterans and International Committees also vote to directly induct one candidate for each induction class. Contributor Direct Election Committee Note that other committees may choose to elect contributors, for example, the 2014 class included two contributors. However, each screening committee is limited as to the number of candidates it can put forth to the Honors Committee—10 from the North American Committee, any individual receiving at least 18 affirmative votes from the Honors Committee is approved for induction into the Hall of Fame
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National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame
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The National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame, located in Kansas City, Missouri, is a hall of fame and museum dedicated to mens college basketball. The museum is a portion of the College Basketball Experience created by the National Association of Basketball Coaches. The hall is meant as a complement to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, on November 17,2006 the NABC honored around 180 players, coaches and other notable contributors to college basketball by inducting them into the founding class of the Hall of Fame. Oscar Robertson, Bill Russell, Dean Smith, John Wooden, the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Massachusetts has indicated it will help with the exhibits. The other interactive portions of the College Basketball Experience are called The Entry Experience, The Fan Experience, the NABC recently renamed the Guardians Classic college tournament the CBE Classic to help promote it
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Creighton University
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Creighton University is a private, coeducational, Jesuit, Roman Catholic university in Omaha, Nebraska, United States. Founded by the Society of Jesus in 1878, the school is one of 28 member institutions of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities, the university is accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. Creighton is Nebraskas largest private religious university, sitting on a 140-acre campus just outside Omahas downtown business district, the university enrolls 8,435 graduate and undergraduate students. Edwards brother, John A. Creighton, is credited with fostering and sustaining the universitys early growth, in 1958, the college split into a prep school and the present-day Creighton University. Creighton competes in NCAA Division I athletics, within the Big East, nicknamed the Bluejays, Creighton fields 14 teams in eight sports. Bruce Rasmussen is the Director of Athletics, greg McDermott is the mens basketball programs head coach. Famous basketball alums include Paul Silas, Benoit Benjamin, Kyle Korver, in addition, the womens basketball team won the WNIT championship in 2004. They play all games on campus at D. J. Sokol Arena. The mens soccer team maintained 17 straight NCAA tournament appearances, between 1992 and 2008, during that time, the Bluejays made three College Cup appearances, including one championship game appearance. They play all games on campus at Morrison Stadium. Creightons baseball team has one appearance in the NCAA College World Series, jim Hendry, the former general manager of the Chicago Cubs, was Creightons head coach for its 1991 CWS appearance. The programs graduates include Hall of Fame pitcher Bob Gibson, the womens softball team has two appearances in the Womens College World Series, and has appeared in six of the past eight NCAA Tournaments. She remains the only student-athlete in Bluejay history to earn first-team all-conference honors in four consecutive seasons, as of 2015, Creightons enrollment was 8,435, of which 4,163 were undergraduates. 14% of Creightons Class of 2020 count themselves as first-generation college attendees in their families, 26% are students of color, and 56% of the class is female. 82% of the class has taken part in volunteer service, CSU has served as the student bodys official voice to faculty, staff, and the outside community since 1922. Each school has its own student advising body for academic affairs, inter Residence Hall Government was formed in 1984 by Steven Conroy and serves as the voice for all students who live on Creightons campus. IRHG represents all of Creightons residence halls and sponsors programs and legislative actions, Center for Service and Justice promotes weekly local community service projects, Fall and Spring Break service trips, student leadership development and education about contemporary justice issues. The center helped develop the Cortina Community, an intentional living sophomore community named for Jesuit priest Jon de Cortina
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Saint Louis University
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Saint Louis University is a private Roman Catholic four-year research university with campuses in St. Louis, Missouri, United States and Madrid, Spain. Founded in 1818 by the Most Reverend Louis Guillaume Valentin Dubourg, It is the oldest university west of the Mississippi River and it is one of 28 member institutions of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities. The university is accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges, SLUs athletic teams compete in NCAAs Division I and are a member of the Atlantic 10 Conference. It has an enrollment of 13,505 students, including 8,687 undergraduate students and 4,818 graduate students, representing all 50 states and its average class size is 23.8 and the student-faculty ratio is 12,1. For nearly 50 years the university has maintained a campus in Madrid, the campus has 675 students, a faculty of 110, an average class size of 15 and a student-faculty ratio of 7,1. Fred Pestello is the President, serving as the 33rd President of SLU since July 1,2014 and its first location was in a private residence located near the Mississippi River in an area now occupied by the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial within the Archdiocese of St. Louis. In 1827 Bishop Dubourg placed Saint Louis College in the care of the Society of Jesus, in 1829 it moved to Washington Avenue and Ninth at the site of todays Americas Center by the Edward Jones Dome. In 1867 after the American Civil War the University purchased Lindells Grove to be the site of its current campus, Lindells Grove was the site of the Civil War Camp Jackson Affair. While the Militia was arrested without violence, angry local citizens rushed to the site, Jackson later led a Missouri Confederate government-in-exile, dying of cancer in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1862. The first building on campus, DuBourg Hall, began construction in 1888, St. Francis Xavier College Church moved to its current location with the completion of the lower church in 1884. During the early 1940s, many priests, especially the Jesuits, began to challenge the segregationist policies at the citys Catholic colleges. After the Pittsburgh Courier, an African-American newspaper, ran a 1944 expose on St. Louis Archbishop John J, by summer of 1944, Saint Louis University had opened its doors to African Americans, after its president, Father Patrick Holloran, secured Glennons reluctant approval. At the time, then board chairman Fr. Paul Reinert, SJ, the board also shifted to an 18 to 10 majority of laypeople. From 1985 to 1992 the Chairman of the Board of Trustees was William H. T. Bush, the younger Bush also taught classes at the school. Since the move to lay oversight, debate has erupted many times over how much influence the Roman Catholic Church should have on the affairs of the university. The decision by the University to sell its hospital to Tenet Healthcare Corp. in 1997 met much resistance by local and national Church leaders, but went ahead as planned. In 2016 St. Louis University hospital found its present owner, SLUs campus consists of over 235 acres of land and 7.2 million GSF, with 131 buildings on campus. Saint Louis University has four libraries, pius XII Memorial Library is the general academic library
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Marquette University
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Marquette University /mɑːrˈkɛt/ is a private, coeducational Catholic university located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in the central United States. Established by the Society of Jesus as Marquette College on August 28,1881, it was founded by John Martin Henni, initially an all-male institution, Marquette became the first coed Catholic university in the world in 1909, when it began admitting its first female students. Marquette is one of 28 member institutions of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities, the university is accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools and currently has a student body of about 12,000. Marquette is one of the largest Jesuit universities in the United States, the university also administers classes in suburbs around the Milwaukee area and in Washington, DC. While most students are pursuing degrees, the university has over 50 doctoral. The universitys varsity teams, known as the Golden Eagles, are members of the Big East Conference. In 2014, U. S. News & World Report ranked Marquette 75th among national universities, forbes ranked Marquette 87th among American research universities in 2013. Marquette University was founded 136 years ago on August 28,1881 as Marquette College by John Martin Henni, with funding from Belgian businessman Guillaume Joseph DeBuey, the university was named after 17th-century missionary and explorer Father Jacques Marquette. The highest priority of the newly established college was to provide an affordable Catholic education to the areas emerging German immigrant population, the first five graduates of Marquette College received their bachelor of arts degrees in 1887. Between 1891 and 1906, the college employed one full-time lay professor, by 1906, Marquette had awarded 186 students the bachelor of arts,38 the Master of Arts, and one student with a bachelor of science. Marquette College officially became a university in 1907, after it affiliated with a local medical school. Johnston Hall, which now houses the universitys College of Communication, was the first building erected on the new campus grounds, Marquette University High School, formerly the preparatory department of the university, became a separate institution the same year. In 1908, Marquette opened a college and purchased two law schools, which would ultimately become the foundation of its current law program. Initially an all-male institution, Marquette University became the first coed Catholic university in the world, by 1916 its female students had increased to 375, many other Catholic institutions began adopting similar approaches in their enrollments during the 1910s and 1920s. Marquette acquired the Wisconsin College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1913, during the 1920s and again during the post-World War II years, Marquette rapidly expanded, opening a new library, athletics facilities, classroom buildings and residence halls. The student population increased markedly as well, met by the construction of buildings for the schools of law, business, dentistry, Marquette is credited with offering the first degree program specializing in hospital administration in the United States, and graduated the first two students in 1927. Despite the promising growth of the university, financial constraints led to the School of Medicine separating from Marquette in 1967 to become the Medical College of Wisconsin, Marquettes Golden Avalanche football team was disbanded in December 1960, and basketball became the leading spectator sport at the university. Graduate programs in the arts and sciences, for which planning had begun in the preceding decade, were officially opened in the 1970s
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American Automobile Association
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The American Automobile Association is a federation of motor clubs throughout North America. AAA is a member service organization, with 55.6 million members in the United States. AAA provides services to its members, including roadside assistance and others and its national headquarters are in Heathrow, Florida. Those individual motor clubs included the Chicago Automobile Club, Automobile Club of America, Automobile Club of New Jersey, the Automobile Club of Buffalo joined in 1903. In 1904, the AAA merged with the very first American automobile organization, the first AAA road maps were published in 1905. AAA began printing hotel guides in 1917, the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety, which conducts studies on motorist safety, was established as a separate entity in 1947. AAA created an organization called the Racing Board, and later known as the Contest Board, in 1902 to officiate the Vanderbilt Cup international automobile race in Long Island, New York. The Racing Board sanctioned the Indianapolis 500 and awarded national racing championships in 1905,1916, 1920–1941, after the 1955 Le Mans disaster, AAA decided that auto racing distracted from its primary goals, and the United States Automobile Club was formed to take over the race sanctioning/officiating. In 2005, AAA re-entered racing as a sponsor of ISC-owned tracks, in 2006, AAAs foray into racing expanded when it made a three-year commitment to sponsor Roush Racings number 6 car on the NASCAR Nextel Circuit. In 1935, AAA published Sportsmanlike Driving, the first course outline for high school teachers, in 1936, AAA published the first driver education curriculum for use in high schools. AAA has updated its driver training courses throughout the years and many clubs currently offer their own driving schools, knowing that vehicles pose a hazard to pedestrians, in 1936 AAA began a pedestrian safety program with a grant from the Automotive Safety Foundation. AAA went on to commission and publish a study of pedestrian safety for the purpose of reducing pedestrian fatalities and injuries. The AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety was established as an entity in 1947. AAA has also provided services to the U. S. government in times of war, during the 1940s, AAA offered its services to the Advisory Commission of the Council of National Defense in anticipation of becoming involved in World War II. Reductions in manufacturing because of the war increased the need for conservation in automobiles, in 1944, AAA’s Keep em Rolling campaign sponsored a cross-country tour featuring cars equipped with synthetic tires. The tour demonstrated the reliability of tires made with synthetic rubber, AAA also assisted in the development of a manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices and their operation during wartime. In 1946, AAA launched a campaign called Take It Easy, subsequently, fatalities dropped 20 percent below the pre-war figure. In the 1960s, AAA helped draft the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1966, setting safety standards for automobiles, tires, and equipment
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Terre Haute, Indiana
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Terre Haute is a city in and the county seat of Vigo County, Indiana, United States, near the states western border with Illinois. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 60,785. Located along the Wabash River, Terre Haute is the capital of the Wabash Valley. The city is home to higher education institutions, including Indiana State University, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College. Terre Haute is notable for being the home of Socialist Party of America leader and five-time presidential nominee, Debs and the Federal Correctional Complex. Terre Haute is located alongside the bank of the Wabash River in western Indiana. The city lies about 75 miles west of Indianapolis, according to the 2010 census, Terre Haute has a total area of 35.272 square miles, of which 34.54 square miles is land and 0.732 square miles is water. The Wabash River dominates the geography of the city, forming its western border. Small bluffs on the east side of city mark the edge of the flood plain. Lost Creek and Honey Creek drain the northern and southern sections of the city, in the late 19th century, several oil and mineral wells were productive in and near the center of the city. That well produced oil into the 1920s, Terre Haute is at the intersection of two major roadways, U. S.40 from California to Maryland and US41 from Copper Harbor, Michigan to Miami, Florida. Terre Haute is located 77 miles southwest of Indianapolis and within 185 miles of Chicago, St. Louis, Louisville, Climate is characterized by relatively high temperatures and evenly distributed precipitation throughout the year. The Köppen Climate Classification subtype for this climate is Dfa, Terre Hautes name was derived from the French phrase terre haute, meaning Highland. It was likely named by French explorers in the area in the early 18th century to describe the unique location above the Wabash River, at the time the area was claimed by the French and British, these highlands were considered the border between Canada and Louisiana. The construction of Fort Harrison in 1811 marked the beginning of a permanent population of European-Americans. A Wea Indian village already existed near the fort, and the orchards, the village of Terre Haute, then a part of Knox County, Indiana, was platted in 1816. Growth really began when the founders won the bid to make it the county seat when Vigo County was formed in March 1818. When the villages 1,000 residents voted to incorporate in 1832, Terre Haute became a town, early Terre Haute was a center of farming, milling and pork processing
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Associated Press
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The Associated Press is an American multinational nonprofit news agency headquartered in New York City that operates as a cooperative, unincorporated association. The AP is owned by its contributing newspapers and radio and television stations in the United States, all of which stories to the AP. Most of the AP staff are members and are represented by the Newspaper Guild, which operates under the Communications Workers of America. As of 2007, news collected by the AP was published and republished by more than 1,700 newspapers, in addition to more than 5,000 television, the photograph library of the AP consists of over 10 million images. The AP operates 243 news bureaus in 120 countries and it also operates the AP Radio Network, which provides newscasts twice hourly for broadcast and satellite radio and television stations. Many newspapers and broadcasters outside the United States are AP subscribers, as part of their cooperative agreement with the AP, most member news organizations grant automatic permission for the AP to distribute their local news reports. The AP employs the inverted pyramid formula for writing that enables the news outlets to edit a story to fit its available publication area without losing the storys essentials. Cutbacks at rival United Press International in 1993 left the AP as the United States primary news service, although UPI still produces and distributes stories and photos daily. Other English-language news services, such as the BBC, Reuters, some historians believe that the Tribune joined at this time, documents show it was a member in 1849. The New York Times became a member shortly after its founding in September 1851, initially known as the New York Associated Press, the organization faced competition from the Western Associated Press, which criticized its monopolistic news gathering and price setting practices. The revelations led to the demise of the NYAP and in December 1892, when the AP was founded, news became a salable commodity. The invention of the press allowed the New York Tribune in the 1870s to print 18,000 papers per hour. During the Civil War and Spanish–American War, there was a new incentive to print vivid, Melville Stone, who had founded the Chicago Daily News in 1875, served as AP General Manager from 1893 to 1921. He embraced the standards of accuracy, impartiality, and integrity, the cooperative grew rapidly under the leadership of Kent Cooper, who built up bureau staff in South America, Europe and, the Middle East. He introduced the telegraph typewriter or teletypewriter into newsrooms in 1914, in 1935, AP launched the Wirephoto network, which allowed transmission of news photographs over leased private telephone lines on the day they were taken. This gave AP a major advantage over other media outlets. While the first network was only between New York, Chicago, and San Francisco, eventually AP had its network across the whole United States, in 1945, the Supreme Court of the United States held in Associated Press v. The decision facilitated the growth of its main rival United Press International, AP entered the broadcast field in 1941 when it began distributing news to radio stations, it created its own radio network in 1974
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Tommy Mills
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Thomas Emmet Mills was an American football player, coach of football, basketball, and baseball, and college athletics administrator. He served as the football coach at Creighton University, Beloit College, Georgetown University. Mills was the baseball coach at the University of Notre Dame from 1927 to 1929. In addition, Mills was the basketball coach at Creighton, Beloit. Mills died at the age of 60 on February 25,1944 of an attack at the Rockne Memorial Field House in Notre Dame. He served as the director of the house for the four years before his death. Tommy Mills at the College Football Data Warehouse
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Howard M. Baldrige
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Howard Malcolm Baldrige or H. Malcolm Baldrige was a Nebraska Republican politician. He was born on June 23,1894 at Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska and he died on January 19,1985, in Southbury, Connecticut. He is buried at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Omaha and he graduated from Omaha High School in 1912. He was also a member of Psi Upsilon and was a letterman in football at Yale, in World War I, he served as captain of Battery F, Three Hundred and Thirty-eighth Field Artillery for the United States. In 1921, he graduated from University of Nebraska–Lincoln College of Law and was admitted to the bar, on November 30,1921, he was married to Regina Katherine Connell at Omaha. She was born at Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska on September 23,1896 and she was a 1921 graduate of Wellesley College. Her uncle, William James Connell, was a Nebraska Republican politician and her first cousin, Dr. Karl Albert Connell, invented the gas mask used by American troops during World War I. They were the parents of three children, Howard Malcolm Baldrige, Jr. born October 4,1922, Robert Connell Baldrige, born November 9,1924, and Letitia Baldrige, born February 9,1926. He served in the Nebraska state house of representatives in 1923 and was a delegate to the 1924 Republican National Convention and he was elected to the Seventy-second United States Congress as a representative for the second district and served from March 4,1931, to March 3,1933. He was a candidate for reelection in 1932. Afterwards, he resumed the practice of law, during the Second World War, he entered the Army on June 10,1942, and became a major in the United States Army Air Corps. He was discharged as a colonel on October 25,1945, resuming law practice with offices in New York City and Washington and he was a resident of Washington, Connecticut, until his death. Cleaves biographical cyclopaedia of homoeopathic physicians and surgeons, New York, Chicago, The Lewis publishing company,1905. Welch, M. J. Douglas County Whos Who in Nebraska,1940 Published by and this article incorporates facts obtained from, Lawrence Kestenbaum, The Political Graveyard United States Congress. Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
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Chet A. Wynne
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Chester Allen Chet Wynne was an American football player, coach, and college athletics administrator. He served as the coach at Creighton University, Auburn University. Wynne was born in Long Island, Kansas and he played fullback at the University of Notre Dame from 1919 to 1921 and professionally for the Rochester Jeffersons of the National Football League in 1922. At Auburn, Wynne tallied a 22–15–2 record, including a 9–0–1 mark in 1932 and he then coached at the Kentucky where he compiled a 20–19 record. At Kentucky, he served as athletic director from 1933 to 1938. Wynne died on July 17,1967 at West Suburban Hospital in Oak Park, Chet A. Wynne at the College Football Data Warehouse Chet A. Wynne at NFL. com
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Marchmont Schwartz
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Marchmont H. Marchie Schwartz was an American football player and coach. He played college football at the University of Notre Dame from 1929 to 1931 and he was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a player in 1974. Schwartz was of Jewish heritage, and was a graduate of Saint Stanislaus College prep school in Bay St. Louis, from 1929 to 1930, he led Notre Dame, coached by Knute Rockne, to a 19–0 record and consecutive national championships. In a game against Carnegie Tech in 1931, he rushed for 188 yards, Schwartz served as an assistant football coach at Notre Dame from 1932 to 1933 under Heartley Anderson, and at the University of Chicago in 1934 under Clark Shaughnessy. In 1940, Shaughnessy hired Schwartz as Stanfords backfield coach and he helped coach the 1940 Wow Boys that recorded a perfect season and won the 1941 Rose Bowl. Schwartz died on April 18,1991 in Danville, California, Marchmont Schwartz at the College Football Hall of Fame Marchmont Schwartz at the College Football Data Warehouse
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Arthur Schabinger
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Arthur August Schabinger was an American football and basketball coach, and then later administrator. Schabinger is credited with throwing the first forward pass in football history. Even if it was not the first forward pass, most certainly Schabinger was one of the adopters and innovators of the play. Schabinger coached college basketball for 20 seasons, including stints with Ottawa University, Emporia Teachers College and he was one of the founders of National Association of Basketball Coaches and the president of that organization in 1932. He authored the associations Constitution and By-Laws and he was enshrined in the Basketball Hall of Fame as a contributor in 1961. In 1910, Schabinger led the College of Emporia Presbies to a 17-0 victory over Washburn University, during this game, he threw what some have credited to be the first forward pass in college football history. That same year, Schabie scored seven touchdowns in a 107-0 win over Pittsburg Normal, schabingers mentor and coach at the College of Emporia was Bill Hargiss. Schabinger was the head college football coach for the Ottawa University Braves located in Ottawa, Kansas and he held that position for four seasons. His career coaching record at Ottawa was 9 wins,17 losses and this ranks him 18th at Ottawa in total wins and 23rd at Ottawa in winning percentage. Arthur Schabinger at the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame
