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La Ventana (yearbook)
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La Ventana is the yearbook of Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas. The first volume of La Ventana was edited by James Biggers and it began in 1925 and was published in 1926 for Texas Technological College, as Texas Tech University was known at the time. The words la ventana mean the window, as the premier volume states, The first color photos appeared in the book in 1933. Progress continued until the beginning of World War II, during the war years, it focused on victory themes, shrank in size, and re-used some older photos to fill space. Following the war, growth resumed and, by the 1950s, in 1959, La Ventana went to a magazine format, with the book divided into sections mimicking national magazines such as Post, Sports Illustrated, and Life. The different sections represented different aspects of life at Texas Tech, Sports Illustrated focused on campus sports. Life looked at life in general and Post covered honor councils
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American football
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The offense must advance at least ten yards in four downs, or plays, or else they turn over the football to the opposing team, if they succeed, they are given a new set of four downs. Points are primarily scored by advancing the ball into the teams end zone for a touchdown or kicking the ball through the opponents goalposts for a field goal. The team with the most points at the end of a game wins, American football evolved in the United States, originating from the sports of association football and rugby football. The first game of American football was played on November 6,1869, during the latter half of the 1870s, colleges playing association football switched to the Rugby Union code, which allowed carrying the ball. American football as a whole is the most popular sport in the United States, Professional football and college football are the most popular forms of the game, with the other major levels being high school and youth football. As of 2012, nearly 1.1 million high school athletes and 70,000 college athletes play the sport in the United States annually, almost all of them men, in the United States, American football is referred to as football. The term football was established in the rulebook for the 1876 college football season. The terms gridiron or American football are favored in English-speaking countries where other codes of football are popular, such as the United Kingdom, Ireland, New Zealand, American football evolved from the sports of association football and rugby football. What is considered to be the first American football game was played on November 6,1869 between Rutgers and Princeton, two college teams, the game was played between two teams of 25 players each and used a round ball that could not be picked up or carried. It could, however, be kicked or batted with the feet, hands, head or sides, Rutgers won the game 6 goals to 4. Collegiate play continued for years in which matches were played using the rules of the host school. Representatives of Yale, Columbia, Princeton and Rutgers met on October 19,1873 to create a set of rules for all schools to adhere to. Teams were set at 20 players each, and fields of 400 by 250 feet were specified, Harvard abstained from the conference, as they favored a rugby-style game that allowed running with the ball. An 1875 Harvard-Yale game played under rugby-style rules was observed by two impressed Princeton athletes and these players introduced the sport to Princeton, a feat the Professional Football Researchers Association compared to selling refrigerators to Eskimos. Princeton, Harvard, Yale and Columbia then agreed to play using a form of rugby union rules with a modified scoring system. These schools formed the Intercollegiate Football Association, although Yale did not join until 1879, the introduction of the snap resulted in unexpected consequences. Prior to the snap, the strategy had been to punt if a scrum resulted in bad field position, however, a group of Princeton players realized that, as the snap was uncontested, they now could hold the ball indefinitely to prevent their opponent from scoring. In 1881, both teams in a game between Yale-Princeton used this strategy to maintain their undefeated records, each team held the ball, gaining no ground, for an entire half, resulting in a 0-0 tie
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Basketball
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Basketball is a non-contact team sport played on a rectangular court by two teams of five players each. The objective is to shoot a ball through a hoop 18 inches in diameter and 10 feet high that is mounted to a backboard at each end of the court. The game was invented in 1891 by Dr. James Naismith, a team can score a field goal by shooting the ball through the basket being defended by the opposition team during regular play. A field goal scores three points for the team if the player shoots from behind the three-point line. A team can also score via free throws, which are worth one point, the team with the most points at the end of the game wins, but additional time is mandated when the score is tied at the end of regulation. The ball can be advanced on the court by passing it to a teammate and it is a violation to lift, or drag, ones pivot foot without dribbling the ball, to carry it, or to hold the ball with both hands then resume dribbling. The game has many techniques for displaying skill—ball-handling, shooting, passing, dribbling, dunking, shot-blocking. The point guard directs the on court action of the team, implementing the coachs game plan, Basketball is one of the worlds most popular and widely viewed sports. Outside North America, the top clubs from national leagues qualify to continental championships such as the Euroleague, the FIBA Basketball World Cup attracts the top national teams from around the world. Each continent hosts regional competitions for teams, like EuroBasket. The FIBA Womens Basketball World Cup features the top womens basketball teams from continental championships. The main North American league is the WNBA, whereas the EuroLeague Women has been dominated by teams from the Russian Womens Basketball Premier League, in early December 1891, Canadian Dr. He sought a vigorous indoor game to keep his students occupied, after rejecting other ideas as either too rough or poorly suited to walled-in gymnasiums, he wrote the basic rules and nailed a peach basket onto a 10-foot elevated track. Basketball was originally played with a soccer ball and these laces could cause bounce passes and dribbling to be unpredictable. Eventually a lace-free ball construction method was invented, and this change to the game was endorsed by Naismith, dribbling was not part of the original game except for the bounce pass to teammates. Passing the ball was the means of ball movement. Dribbling was eventually introduced but limited by the shape of early balls. Dribbling only became a part of the game around the 1950s
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Baseball
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Baseball is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of nine players each, who take turns batting and fielding. A run is scored when a player advances around the bases, Players on the batting team take turns hitting against the pitcher of the fielding team, which tries to prevent runs by getting hitters out in any of several ways. A player on the team who reaches a base safely can later attempt to advance to subsequent bases during teammates turns batting. The teams switch between batting and fielding whenever the team records three outs. One turn batting for both teams, beginning with the team, constitutes an inning. A game is composed of nine innings, and the team with the number of runs at the end of the game wins. Baseball has no clock, although almost all games end in the ninth inning. Baseball evolved from older bat-and-ball games already being played in England by the mid-18th century and this game was brought by immigrants to North America, where the modern version developed. By the late 19th century, baseball was widely recognized as the sport of the United States. Baseball is now popular in North America and parts of Central and South America, the Caribbean, in the United States and Canada, professional Major League Baseball teams are divided into the National League and American League, each with three divisions, East, West, and Central. The major league champion is determined by playoffs that culminate in the World Series, the top level of play is similarly split in Japan between the Central and Pacific Leagues and in Cuba between the West League and East League. The evolution of baseball from older bat-and-ball games is difficult to trace with precision, a French manuscript from 1344 contains an illustration of clerics playing a game, possibly la soule, with similarities to baseball. Other old French games such as thèque, la balle au bâton, consensus once held that todays baseball is a North American development from the older game rounders, popular in Great Britain and Ireland. Baseball Before We Knew It, A Search for the Roots of the Game, by David Block, suggests that the game originated in England, recently uncovered historical evidence supports this position. Block argues that rounders and early baseball were actually regional variants of other. It has long believed that cricket also descended from such games. The earliest known reference to baseball is in a 1744 British publication, A Little Pretty Pocket-Book, David Block discovered that the first recorded game of Bass-Ball took place in 1749 in Surrey, and featured the Prince of Wales as a player. William Bray, an English lawyer, recorded a game of baseball on Easter Monday 1755 in Guildford and this early form of the game was apparently brought to Canada by English immigrants
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Brownwood, Texas
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Brownwood is a city in and the county seat of Brown County, Texas, United States. The population was 19,288 at the 2010 census, the original site of the Brown County seat of Brownwood was east of Pecan Bayou. A dispute arose over land and water rights, and the settlers were forced to find a new location. Greenleaf Fisk donated 60 acres to relocate the county seat to the west side of the bayou, on what is now the current site of Brownwood, the town was incorporated in 1884. During the Second World War, Brownwood was the location of U. S. Army Camp Bowie, Camp Bowie serves as a training camp today at the intersection Farm-to-Market roads 45 and 2126. On April 19,1976, an F5 tornado struck near Brownwood, causing damage, with 11 reported injuries. Brownwoods census figures were re-evaluated after the 2000 census from 18,813 to reflect more accurate figures of 20,407, the city was categorized in 2003 as a Micropolitan Statistical Area. A dispute over water rights created the adjacent city of Early, the two cities are separated by the Pecan Bayou, one of five major tributaries of the Colorado River of Texas. Brownwood is located south of the center of Brown County, west of the Pecan Bayou and it is bordered to the east by the city of Early. Routes 84 and 67 lead west towards Bangs and Santa Anna, U. S. Route 377 leads southwest towards Brady. All three highways head east into Early, where 67 and 377 continue northeast towards Comanche, while 84 leads southeast towards Goldthwaite. Just over the city line in Early, U. S. Route 183 leads north 46 miles to Cisco and Interstate 20, the closest Interstate highway. According to the United States Census Bureau, Brownwood has an area of 14.9 square miles, of which 14.8 square miles is land and 0.04 square miles. Lake Brownwood is located 7 miles north of the city, the lake is a 7, 300-acre reservoir created by damming the Pecan Bayou. A wide variety of fish occur in the lake, largemouth bass, smallmouth bass, white bass, striped bass, white crappie, yellow and flathead catfish, sunfish, camping, water skiing, jet skiing, and boating are available. It is home of Lake Brownwood State Park, a 538-acre area which opened in 1938, the Pecan Bayou is a major tributary of the Colorado River. Due to the damming of the area to form Lake Brownwood, during heavy rains, the bayou often floods. It runs northwest to southeast and serves as a boundary between the cities of Brownwood and Early, as of the census of 2000, there were 18,813 people,7,110 households, and 4,664 families residing in the city
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Vanderbilt Commodores football
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The Vanderbilt Commodores football program represents Vanderbilt University in the sport of American football. The Commodores compete in the Football Bowl Subdivision of the National Collegiate Athletic Association and they are currently coached by former Tennessee Titans wide receiver Derek Mason. Vanderbilt plays their games at Vanderbilt Stadium, located on the universitys Nashville. Adopting the nickname the Commodores after the 1897 season, the team has played in 1,250 games over 126 seasons. In that time, six coaches have led the Commodores to a bowl appearance, Art Guepe, Steve Sloan, George MacIntyre, Bobby Johnson, James Franklin. Four have led them to a championship, R. G. Acton, W. H. Watkins, James H. Henry. McGugin is the leader in seasons coached and games won, with 198 victories during his thirty years at Vanderbilt and he was awarded two National Championships retroactively by Clyde Berryman. Of the twenty-eight different head coaches who have led the Commodores, McGugin, Ray Morrison, Henry Russell Sanders, the current head coach is Derek Mason. Ole Miss is Vanderbilts cross-divisional rival in the SEC, Vanderbilt and Ole Miss have played 87 times since 1894. Ole Miss leads the series 50–38–2, the largest margin of victory was by 91 points won by Vanderbilt in 1915. Vanderbilt also holds the longest win streaks in the series from 1894 to 1938, having started in 1893, the Georgia-Vanderbilt football series has been played annually since 1968. The two are divisional opponents in the SEC East, the two are divisional opponents in the SEC East. The series, which rotates between Nashville, Tennessee and Lexington, Kentucky, is tied at 42–42–4 with the score being Vanderbilt 17-Kentucky 15.6. Vanderbilt and Tennessee have played 107 times since 1892, Tennessee leads the series 75–30–5, when the rivalry first started Vanderbilt dominated by taking 19 of the first 24 with 3 ties. After 1928, UT has dominated the rivalry with a record of Vanderbilt 71–11–2, the largest margin of victory for Vanderbilt was by 76 points in 1918 at Old Dudley Field in Nashville. The largest defeat was 65 points in 1994 at Vanderbilt Stadium, the longest win streaks for Vanderbilt is from 1901 to 1913. The longest win streak for Tennessee is 22, from 1983 to 2004, Vanderbilt and the Sewanee Tigers were both founding members of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association, the Southern Conference, and the Southeastern Conference. It is the oldest of Vanderbilts rivalries, dating back to 1891 when Vanderbilt played its football game
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Tackle (gridiron football position)
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Tackle is a playing position in American and Canadian football. Historically, in the one-platoon system prevalent in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In the modern system of specialized units, offensive tackle and defensive tackle are separate positions, the offensive tackle is a position on the offensive line, left and right. The term tackle is a vestige of an era of football in which the same players played both offense and defense. A tackle is the position on the offensive line. They power their blocks with quick steps and maneuverability, the tackles are mostly in charge of the outside protection. If the tight end goes out for a pass, the tackle must cover everyone that his guard does not, usually they defend against defensive ends. In the NFL, offensive tackles often measure over 6 ft 4 in and 300 lb, the Wonderlic is taken before the draft to assess each players aptitude for learning and problem solving, a score of 26 is estimated to correspond with an IQ of 112. The right tackle is usually the teams best run blocker, most running plays are towards the strong side of the offensive line. Consequently, the tackle will face the defending teams best run stoppers. He must be able to gain traction in his blocks so that the back can find a hole to run through. The left tackle is usually the teams best pass blocker, of the two tackles, the left tackles will often have better footwork and agility than the right tackle in order to counteract the pass rush of defensive ends. When a quarterback throws a pass, the quarterbacks shoulders are aligned roughly perpendicular to the line of scrimmage. Right-handed quarterbacks, the majority of players in the position, thus turn their backs to defenders coming from the left side, creating a vulnerable blind side that the left tackle must protect. A2006 book by Michael Lewis, The Blind Side, Evolution of a Game, made into a 2009 motion picture, the book and the films introduction discuss how the annual salary of left tackles in the NFL skyrocketed in the mid-90s. Recent examples include Eric Fisher, Luke Joeckel, Lane Johnson, Matt Kalil, Trent Williams, Jake Long, and Joe Thomas
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First baseman
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First base, or 1B, is the first of four stations on a baseball diamond which must be touched in succession by a baserunner in order to score a run for that players team. A first baseman is the player on the team playing defense who fields the area nearest first base, in the numbering system used to record defensive plays, the first baseman is assigned the number 3. Also called first sacker or cornerman, the first baseman is ideally a tall player who throws left-handed and possesses good flexibility, flexibility is needed because the first baseman receives throws from the other infielders, the catcher and the pitcher after they have fielded ground balls. In order for the runner to be called out, the first baseman must be able to stretch towards the throw and they often are power hitters who have a substantial number of home runs and extra base hits while maintaining a.270 plus batting average. Good defensive first basemen, according to Bill James, are capable of playing off first base so that they can field ground balls hit to the side of first base. The first baseman then relies upon the pitcher to cover first base to receive the ball to complete the out, indications of a good defensive first baseman include a large number of assists and a low number of throwing errors by other infielders. The nature of play at first base often requires first basemen to stay close to the bag to hold runners or to reach the bag before the batter. First basemen are not typically expected to have the range required of a baseman, shortstop. As a result, first base is not usually perceived to be as physically demanding as other positions, however, it can also be a very hard position to play, a large amount of concentration and timing is required. Though many play at first base their entire career, it is common for players to be moved to first base in order to extend their careers or to accommodate other recently acquired players. Facing a possible trade or a reduction in playing time. Catchers and corner outfielders are often moved to first base due to deteriorating health or if their fielding abilities at their position are detrimental to the team. When first base is not occupied by a baserunner, the first baseman usually stands behind first base, the distance he plays from the base and foul line is dependent on the current hitter and any runners on base. The exact position may depend on the first basemans experience, preference. For a known right-handed pull hitter, the first baseman might position himself further towards the second basemans normal fielding position, for a known left-handed pull hitter, the first baseman will position himself closer to the foul line in order to stop a ball hit down the line. To protect against a bunt on the first base side of the infield, as soon as the pitcher commits to throwing towards home plate, the first basemen will charge towards the hitter to field the bunt. During these plays, it is the responsibility of the second basemen to cover first base, with a base runner present at first base, the first baseman stands with his right foot touching the base to prepare for a pickoff attempt. Once the pitcher commits to throwing towards home plate, the first baseman comes off the bag in front of the runner and gets in a fielding position
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TCU Horned Frogs football
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The TCU Horned Frogs football team is the intercollegiate football team of Texas Christian University. The Horned Frogs compete in Division I Football Bowl Subdivision, the highest level of intercollegiate athletics sanctioned by the National Collegiate Athletic Association in the United States, TCU began playing football in 1896 and claims national championships in 1935 and 1938. TCU has one Heisman Trophy winner, Davey OBrien, and has had eight former players inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame, the Horned Frogs play their home games in Amon G. Carter Stadium, which is located on the TCU campus in Fort Worth. TCU ranks as the 28th best college football program of all time, the Horned Frogs are also one of only four FBS teams to have played in all six College Football Playoff Bowls, winning all but the Fiesta and Orange. TCUs first year of football started on December 7,1896, TCU won its first game ever played by beating Tobys Business College to the score of 8–6, apparently not having to use any substitutes. TCU finished its first ever season with a record of 12–0–0, prior to joining the Southwest Conference in 1923, TCU amassed a record of 165–15–0. In 1912, TCU went 8–1–0 and scored 230 points while only allowing 53 points the whole season, in 1920, TCU won its first conference title as a member of the Texas Intercollegiate Athletic Association. The Horned Frogs 9–1–0 record earned them a spot in the Fort Worth Classic, also known as the Dixie Bowl, although the game was played in Fort Worth, Centre won the game 63–7. In 1923, TCU endured a 5-game winning streak during its first year in the SWC, but it earned a 2–1–0 conference record, one loss that year was a 40–21 decision against TCUs emerging rival, the SMU Mustangs, who went 9–0 en route to a conference championship. The next year, TCU finished second place in the conference with a 5–1 SWC record, after two great seasons, the Horned Frogs righted the ship. Prior to 1923 TCU had had a door of coaches. Following entrance to the SWC, the established a high degree of stability, employing just four coaches over the next 43 years. Under those four coaches (Bell, Schmidt, Meyer, and Martin, matty Bell, who began coaching the Frogs in 1923, had his best year in 1928, his last year as coach. That years only came at home 7–6 to the Baylor Bears. That year the Frogs finished in place in the conference at 8–2–0 overall. The 1929 season saw the arrival of Coach Francis Schmidt and TCUs first SWC title, the title was won in the last game of the year on November 30,1929 against SMU. Coming into the game TCU led SMU in the conference standings, TCU had 4 wins, while SMUs conference record was 3–0–1. Since this was the last conference game of the year for teams, TCU could win its first SWC title with a win or a tie
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Austin College
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Austin College is a private liberal arts college affiliated by covenant relationship with the Presbyterian Church and located in Sherman, Texas, about 60 miles north of Dallas. The undergraduate student body of Austin College is about 1,300, students are required to live on campus for the first three years of their education in order to foster a close-knit and community oriented campus lifestyle. Austin College actively promotes study abroad programs, 70% of graduates have at least one international study experience during college, the college cultivates close interaction between students and professors via a 12,1 student to faculty ratio and an average class size of fewer than 25 students. The college has no teaching assistants, so regular faculty teach all levels of coursework, the college was founded on October 13,1849, in Huntsville, Texas, by the Hampden–Sydney and Princeton-educated missionary Dr. Daniel Baker. Signed by Texas Governor George Wood, the charter of Austin College was modeled after those of Harvard, Yale, Baker named the school for the Texas historical figure Stephen F. Austin after the original land on which it was built was donated by the Austin family. Austin Colleges founding president was Irish-born Presbyterian minister Samuel McKinney, who served as the president a second time from 1862 to 1871. Under the tenure of the president of Austin College, Reverend Samuel Magoffin Luckett, Austin College suffered several yellow fever epidemics. Texas Synod of the Presbyterian Church decided the college would be relocated to Sherman in 1876, construction of the new campus in north Texas came in the form of Old Main, a two-story, red brick structure, which occurred between 1876 and 1878. Austin College saw little improvement to its building or grounds during the late 1870s, as such, a shrewd and well connected businessman, President MacGregor relieved a great deal of the colleges debt and returned operations to normalcy. After MacGregors death in 1887, the college welcomed President Luckett back to the campus, on January 21 of 1913, Old Main was set ablaze and burnt to the ground in a matter of hours. A professor of Austin College, Davis Foute Eagleton described the incident, Austin College on fire, - The dear old building in which I have laboured for twenty-four years, gone. What traditions, memories, griefs, joys, were associated with it, the carpenters were approaching the completion of their work. The new English room was completed, the room was soon to be ready. I lost all books, or, in my class room, the laboratories were almost a total loss. Fortunately, the library, records, and office furniture were all in the new Y. M. C. A, the Faculty also met shortly after and unanimously decided to continue college work the next day as usual, meeting their classes in places designated. Probably not another institution in the State could have done this, but the old College building is gone forever. Following the fire, the citizens of Sherman raised $50,000 to help the college rebuild, now one of the oldest buildings on the Austin College campus, Sherman Hall housed administrative offices, an auditorium-chapel, and a library. Now the home of the division, Sherman Hall boasted such guests as Harry Houdini, Harry Blackstone Sr. Madame Schumann-Heink, William Howard Taft
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Millsaps Majors football
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The Millsaps Majors football team represents Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi. They compete in the NCAAs Division III and the Southern Athletic Association, millsapss all-time record in football is 380 wins,356 loses and 36 ties. The gridiron Majors have posted two undefeated seasons in their history, earned three NCAA playoff tournament berths and claimed six Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference championships. Its major rival is Belhaven University, Millsaps fielded its first intercollegiate football team in 1920. From 1920 to 1963 the Majors accumulated a 131-174-30 record over 40 seasons, between 1920 and 1959 the Majors met their rival Mississippi College Choctaws in 39 games, constituting the historic Backyard Brawl rivalry between the two schools. During that time the Choctaws claimed a 24-9-6 lead in the series, in 1964, Harper Davis took over as the Majors head coach. A Clarksdale, Mississippi native, Davis had been a four-time All-SEC selection as a Defensive Back at Mississippi State from 1945 to 1948 who went on to a professional career. Daviss tenure at Millsaps got off to a start, The Majors finished 0-8 in 1964. From there, however, Davis elevated the program to one of the most competitive in the South among the college ranks. Five years later, in 1980, the Majors completed their first, the highlight of the season was an 8-7 victory over Central Floridas up-and-coming football program, played before 12,793 fans at the Tangerine Bowl in Orlando. It was Central Florida who returned to Jackson the following season and snapped the Majors 13-game winning streak dating back to the final contest of the 1979 season, Davis retired after the 1988 season, having guided the Majors to a 140-78-4 record during his 25 year-tenure. All of the Majors previous coaches had accumulated just 131 victories in 40 seasons, after Davis stepped down, his longtime assistant, Tommy Ranager, was named to lead the football program. The 1989 season marked the first time the Majors played as an affiliate and not an independent team. In 1994, however, Ranagers Majors finished 4-6, marking the teams first losing season since 1977, the Majors snapped Trinitys streak of 12 consecutive victories by a 13-10 margin in the season finale in Jackson to share the SCAC title with the Tigers. Former Mississippi State head coach Bob Tyler, who guided the Bulldogs to several seasons during the 1970s, was hired to replace Jurney. Under Tyler, Millsaps and Mississippi College renewed their historic Backyard Brawl rivalry in 2000, the much anticipated game was played at Memorial Stadium in Jackson before more than 10,000 fans, with the Majors kicking the winning field goal with 16 seconds left for a 20-19 victory. Since the series was renewed, the Majors and the Choctaws have faced off in the week of every season except 2005. In 2003, Millsaps hired David Saunders to fill Tylers vacated post, Saunders had previously been the Recruiting Coordinator on David Cutcliffes staff at Ole Miss
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SMU Mustangs football
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The SMU Mustangs football program is a college football team that represents Southern Methodist University. The team competes in the NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision as a member of the American Athletic Conference, in June 1915, Ray Morrison became SMUs football, baseball, basketball, and track coach, in addition to being to a math instructor. The football team began as a member of the Texas Intercollegiate Athletic Association, the first game played by SMUs football team was a 13-2 victory over Hendrix College. After winning two games in a span of two seasons, Morrison left SMU for Fort Oglethorpe upon the United States’ entry into World War I, during this time, the football team was known as the Parsons, due to the large number of theology students on the team. On October 17,1917, the name Mustangs was selected as the schools mascot, for the 1917 season, Morrison would be replaced by J. Burton Rix, who would lead the Mustangs to a 3-2-3 record in their final season in the TIAA. The Mustangs’ first season in the conference ended with a 4-2 record. J. Burton Rix would continue to coach the team until the 1921 season, in which he was replaced by W. A. Cunningham and Victor Kelly, his co-coaches that season, as the team went on to lose six games. Ray Morrison would return to SMU in 1922, co-coaching the team with former Vanderbilt teammate Ewing Y, for the 1922 and 1923 seasons, Morrison would focus on the backfield and ends, while Freeland focused on the linemen. The team became known as the Aerial Circus by sportswriters because of Morrisons passing offense, Morrison would become known as the father of the forward pass, due to the teams use of passing on first and second downs, instead of as a play of last resort. At the time, most teams utilized the forward pass five to six times in one game, in the 1922 season, the Mustangs would compile a 6-3-1 record. Furthermore, end Gene Bedford and back Logan Stollenwerck were named first-team All-Southwest Conference, Bedford would go on to be the first player to play in the National Football League for the Rochester Jeffersons. In the 1923 season, the SMU Mustangs would go on to compile a perfect 9-0 record, after this season, Freeland would leave the SMU football team, later becoming head coach for the Texas Tech University football team, leaving Morrison as the sole head coach for SMU. SMU would go on to play in their first bowl game in 1924, playing in the Dixie Classic against West Virginia Wesleyan College, by 1926, the team began playing their home games at Ownby Stadium. In their first game at Ownby Stadium, the Mustangs defeated North Texas State Teachers College 42-0, the first Homecoming game would also be played in 1926, resulting in a 14-13 victory over Texas Christian University. The team would continue to have winning seasons until the 1932 season, the Mustangs would win their second conference title in 1926, compiling an 8-0-1 record, and a third conference title in 1931, compiling a 9-0-1 record. In 1928, guard Choc Sanders would become SMUs first All-American, in 1929, tackle Marion Hammon would become SMUs second All-American. After a winning 1934 season, Morrison left SMU to take over the Vanderbilt Commodores football team after the retirement of Dan McGugin, Morrison would be replaced by Matty Bell in 1935. Known as a coach, Bell brought discipline to his team
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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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TCU Horned Frogs men's basketball
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The TCU Horned Frogs mens basketball team represents Texas Christian University, located in Fort Worth, Texas, in NCAA Division I mens basketball competition. Since 2016, the Horned Frogs have been led by TCU Lettermens Hall of Fame member, TCU joined the Big 12 Conference in 2012 after being in the Mountain West Conference since 2005. The Horned Frogs play their games on campus at Ed & Rae Schollmaier Arena, formerly known as Daniel–Meyer Coliseum. The Horned Frogs began varsity competition in mens basketball in 1908. In their first recorded game, the Frogs faced then-cross-town rival Baylor in a 6–37 loss, TCU moved its campus from Waco to Fort Worth, Texas, after a fire destroyed the central Texas schools main building in 2010. During the early, independent and TIAA years, TCU was led by at least six different coaches from 1908 through 1923, the Horned Frogs were led into the Southwest Conference in 1923 by a new basketball and football coach, Fort Worth native Matty Bell. Bell transformed the program, accruing a 71–41 record over his six seasons at TCU and leading the Horned Frogs to second, third, Bell was succeeded by Francis Schmidt, who left the Arkansas Razorbacks to coach TCU basketball and football. The 1931 SWC championship was the Frogs first league title in mens basketball, Schmidt departed Fort Worth after five seasons to become the head football coach at Ohio State. Coach Schmidts departure after the 1934 SWC championship season was followed by a 16-year draught for TCU basketball, meyers basketball record from 1934 through 1937 totaled on 10–37. Meyer was replaced by former TCU basketball and football player Mike Brumbelow, Brumbelow was quickly replaced by Hub McQuillan, who led the Frogs to middle-of-the-league finishes in the first 5 of his 7 years as head coach of TCU basketball. Buster Brannon, a former TCU player under Francis Scmidt, led Horned Frogs basketball for two decades, from 1948 through 1967. Brannons recorded faded in the 1960s, when the Frogs finished near the bottom of the league almost every year until Brannons retirement from coaching in 1967, the Brannon era saw the opening of Daniel–Meyer Coliseum in 1961. Johnny Swaim, a player for Brannon, coached the Frogs from 1967 through 1977. Swaim led the Frogs to Southwest Conference titles and the NCAA Tournament in 1967, his first season at the helm, the Frogs 1967 NCAA Tournament appearance saw the Frogs first-ever Tournament win and the programs only appearance in what is now known as the Elite Eight. Swaim abruptly retired from coaching after the 1977 season, remaining in Fort Worth as a businessman until his death in 1995, after Swaims retirement, Tim Somerville led the Frogs for the following two seasons, notching only a 10–43 record. On March 21,2016, TCU hired Pitt head coach, the Horned Frogs won the 2017 NIT Championship on March 30, to cap off Dixons first season with a 24–15 record. Legend, = Conference Regular Season Champion = Conference Tournament Champion = Conference Division Champion The Horned Frogs have appeared in seven NCAA Tournaments, the Horned Frogs have appeared in seven National Invitation Tournaments. They were NIT champions in 2017, the Horned Frogs have appeared in one College Basketball Invitational
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Millsaps Majors
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The Millsaps Majors is the nickname for the sports teams of Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi and their colors are purple and white. They participate in the NCAAs Division III and the Southern Athletic Association, men participate in baseball, basketball, cheerleading, football, soccer, tennis, golf, lacrosse, track and field, and cross country. Womens sports include basketball, softball, soccer, tennis, golf, cross country, lacrosse, track and field, millsapss all-time record in football is 380 wins,356 loses and 36 ties. The gridiron Majors have posted two undefeated seasons in their history, earned three NCAA playoff tournament berths and claimed six Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference championships. 2009 saw the Majors end the season with a 32-8 winning record. On April 14,2009, the Majors were named the No.1 team in the country by D3baseball. com for the first time in the programs history and it was the first time any athletic team has achieved this high of a ranking. Millsaps has had 3 Major League Baseball Draft selections since the draft began in 1965, both men and women began lacrosse teams in 2010. Campus legend says the brawl was sparked by the theft of the body of Millsaps founder Major Millsaps by Mississippi College students. The rivalry was considered by many as the best in Mississippi, the rivalry took a one-year hiatus in 2005 but resumed in 2006. Millsaps was the training camp home for the NFLs New Orleans Saints in 2006,2007 and 2008
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TCU Horned Frogs baseball
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The TCU Horned Frogs baseball team represents Texas Christian University in NCAA Division I baseball. The Frogs have competed in the Big 12 Conference since 2013 and previously competed in the Mountain West, Conference USA, Western Athletic Conference and Southwest Conference. Since February 2003, the Horned Frogs have played their games at Lupton Stadium, located on the TCU campus in Fort Worth. TCU has fielded a team since 1896, before the university found its permanent home in Fort Worth. The Horned Frog baseball team began playing baseball in the Southwest Conference when it became a member of the conference in 1923, in their inaugural SWC season, the Frogs finished the year with a 13–11 overall record and a 2–10 conference record. In 1933 Dutch Meyer, most noted for his tenure as coach of the two-time national champion football team. The Horned Frogs went on to win 4 more SWC titles in 1956,1966,1967 and 1994, the SWC Baseball Tournament began in 1977, but the Horned Frogs never earned a conference tournament title before the SWC dissolved following the 1996 baseball season. The dissolution of the SWC in 1996 touched off a period of instability for the Horned Frogs that lasted two decades, during which they made stops in six conferences. Following the dissolution of the SWC, the TCU Horned Frogs first joined the Western Athletic Conference, during the 1997 and 1998 seasons, TCU competed in the WAC South Division with the New Mexico Lobos, UNLV Rebels, and former SWC member Rice Owls. The Horned Frogs made two appearances in the WAC Baseball Tournament in the five seasons as a member of the WAC. Eight WAC member schools joined with schools from other conferences to form the new Mountain West Conference in 2000. Two seasons later, TCU joined the Houston Cougars, another former SWC member, long time TCU Head Coach Lance Brown, a SWC hall-of-famer as both a TCU player and TCU coach, retired after the 2003 season. Through his career as TCUs skipper, Brown notched a school-record 517 wins, after Browns departure, TCU would go on to make several more conference moves in the early 2000s and see an emergence of its baseball program as a perennial national power. Jim Schlossnagle was hired as TCUs head coach in 2003 and coached his first season at TCU in Spring 2004, under Schlossnagle, conference championships began piling up year after year, in conference after conference. Schlossnagles Horned Frogs repeated as C-USA regular season and tournament champions in 2005, prior to the 2006 season, conference realignment again led TCU to change conferences as eight other C-USA members changed conference homes. The Horned Frogs joined the Mountain West Conference, where the Frogs competed for seven years, in each season in the MWC, TCU advanced to the NCAA Tournament and won at least a share of the Mountain West regular season title. In those seven years, TCU also won four MWC Tournament championships, during this era, TCU won its first-ever NCAA Regional Championship in 2009, and repeated the feat in 2010 and 2012. In 2009, the Horned Frogs advanced to its first NCAA Super Regional, in 2010, TCU and Texas met again in an NCAA Super Regional, but the Horned Frogs emerged from the rematch—advancing to the College World Series for the first time in school history
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SMU Mustangs
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The SMU Mustangs are the athletic teams representing Southern Methodist University. The SMU Mustangs were founded in 1911 and became a prominent athletic program who joined the Southwest Conference, competing against Baylor, Rice, Texas, Texas A&M, Arkansas and Oklahoma A&M. They have participated in various Bowl Games, from the Dixie Classic in 1924 to the Hawaii Bowl in 2012, the SMU Mustangs also have a prominent baseball, basketball, soccer and golf team that continually have winning records and are becoming more and more well-known. The Mustangs participate in the NCAA Division I as a member of the American Athletic Conference, SMU was the only private school in the conference when it began operation as The American in 2013, but it was joined by Tulane and Tulsa a year later. From 1918 to 1996, the Mustangs were a member of the Southwest Conference, the Mustangs subsequently joined the Western Athletic Conference and in 2005, SMU accepted an invitation to the Western Division of Conference USA. They accepted an invitation to join the Big East Conference, which split along football lines in 2013, with SMU, National Titles 1935 In 1935, SMU had a magnificent season, a 12–1–0 record, scoring 288 points while only giving up 39. The Mustangs completely dominated their opponents and they shut out eight of their 12 regular season opponents, including conference rivals Texas, Rice, Baylor, and Texas A&M. They were one of the most talented teams in school history, the 1935 Mustangs were crowned national champions by Frank Dickinson, a nationally respected economics professor at the University of Illinois. SMU played in three National Championships in football, with a win in the 1982 Cotton Bowl Classic and a championship in the 1982 Polyester Bowl. Southwest Conference Championships * denotes shared title Bowl Appearances and Results SMUs closest rival in athletics is Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, in football, SMU and TCU compete annually for the Iron Skillet. In 2005, an unranked SMU beat then 24th ranked TCU for SMUs first win against a team in 19 years. TCU had won the seven football games played against SMU. SMU also competes annually with Rice University in football for the Battle for the Mayors Cup, unofficially, SMU competes with the University of North Texas in the Safeway Bowl. The Doak Walker Award, an annual award given to the most outstanding college running back, is named after SMU Heisman Trophy Winner Doak Walker. On November 11,2006, redshirt freshman quarterback Justin Willis broke the single season touchdown record held by Chuck Hixson. Willis threw for three touchdowns in a 37–27 loss to the University of Houston, setting the new season record at 23. At the end of the season, Willis set the new record at 26 and he also broke the SMU single season touchdown record accounting for 29 touchdowns. He was named to the Freshman All-American team at quarterback, starting in December 2014, Chad Morris was named the head football coach
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Texas Tech Red Raiders baseball
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The Texas Tech Red Raiders baseball team represents Texas Tech University in NCAA Division I college baseball. The team competes in the Big 12 Conference and plays at Dan Law Field at Rip Griffin Park and their head coach is Tim Tadlock and he is in his 5th season with the Red Raiders. Behind football and mens basketball, baseball is the third oldest sport at Texas Tech, the initial team organized in 1925 and the first game, an 18–9 victory over West Texas State Teachers College, was played in 1926. In the following game, the team suffered its first ever loss, the third game in the teams history—this one against Daniel Baker College—ended in a 3–3 tie after 11 innings. Freeland was the first coach of the Red Raiders, though the team was known as the Matadors at the time and he remained in the position for three years before R. Grady Higginbotham took the role. Higginbotham coached for two years. From 1930 to 1953, Texas Tech did not field a baseball team. When the program returned in 1954, Beattie Feathers became the coach of the Red Raiders. He was followed by Berl Huffman, Kal Segrist, and Gary Ashby, during this time, the Red Raiders only had seven winning seasons. Texas Tech joined the Southwest Conference in 1968, but experienced little success, through the 1986 season, the Red Raiders only finished as high as third in conference play twice, and had only three winning conference records. Larry Hays took over the Red Raiders baseball team in 1987, under Hays, Texas Tech endured only two losing seasons, his first and last, and enjoyed their greatest success in baseball. Hays took Texas Tech from having a losing tradition to being a national contender, when Hays started with the Red Raiders, the teams overall record stood at 550–576–5. By the time he left, he was the fourth-winningest coach in baseball history and improved the teams record to 1, 365–1. The Red Raiders reached eight straight NCAA tournaments from 1995–2002 and again in 2004 and they also won the 1995 Southwest Conference championship, and the inaugural Big 12 Conference championship in 1997. The Hays lead Red Raiders also won the SWC Tournament in 1995, on June 2,2008, Larry Hays announced his retirement, paving the way for assistant coach Dan Spencer to take over. Spencer, a former Texas Tech player, won national championships as an assistant head coach for the Oregon State Beavers. Tadlock was a shortstop for the Red Raiders during the 1990 and 1991 seasons. Tadlock previously led the Grayson College Vikings to back-to-back NJCAA World Series championships in the five appearances over his 9 seasons as head coach
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Texas Tech Red Raiders and Lady Raiders
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The Texas Tech Red Raiders and Lady Raiders are the athletic teams that represent Texas Tech University. The womens basketball team uses the name Lady Raiders, however, the universitys athletic program fields 17 varsity teams in 11 sports all of whom have combined to win 62 conference championships as well as 4 national championships. The Masked Rider and Raider Red serve as the representing the teams. Texas Tech participates in the NCAA Division I and is a member of the Big 12 Conference. From 1932 until 1956, the university belonged to the Border Intercollegiate Athletic Association, Texas Tech was admitted to the Southwest Conference on May 12,1956. The universitys athletic director is College Football Playoff committee representative Kirby Hocutt, Bob Knight, the most victorious coach in mens Division I basketball history, coached the Red Raiders mens basketball team from 2001 to 2008. Following Bob Knights retirement in 2008, his son Pat Knight assumed head coaching duties. The Red Raiders football team, which has coached by Mike Leach from 2000 to 2009, is a member of the NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision and has appeared in the 19th-most bowl games of any team. Tommy Tuberville was named coach in 2010 following the firing of Mike Leach. He was replaced by former Texas Tech quarterback Kliff Kingsbury in 2013, in 1993, led by coach Marsha Sharp, the Lady Raiders basketball team won the NCAA Womens Basketball Championship. Following Sharps retirement in 2006, Kristy Curry was named Lady Raiders head coach, Red Raiders baseball coach Larry Hays, who is one of only four coaches in NCAA baseball history to win 1,500 career games, retired in 2008. Texas Tech competes in the varsity sports, Behind football. The initial team organized in 1925 and the first game, an 18–9 victory over West Texas State Teachers College, was played in 1926, in the following game, the team suffered its first ever loss, 14–9 to the team it had previously defeated. The third game in the teams history—this one against Daniel Baker College—ended in a 3–3 tie after 11 innings, freeland was the first coach of the Red Raiders, though the team was known as the Matadors at the time. He remained in the position for three years before R. Grady Higginbotham took the role, Higginbotham coached for only two years. From 1930 to 1953, Tech did not field a baseball team. When the program returned in 1954, Beattie Feathers became the coach of the Red Raiders. He was followed by Berl Huffman, Kal Segrist, and Gary Ashby, upon Ashbys departure, Larry Hays became the head coach of the team
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Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association
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The Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association was one of the first collegiate athletic conferences in the United States. Twenty-seven of the current Division I FBS football programs were members of this conference at some point, the SIAA was founded on December 21,1894, by Dr. William Dudley, a chemistry professor at Vanderbilt, at the Kimball House in Atlanta. Dudley was a member of the Vanderbilt Athletic Association, formed in 1886 with Dr. W. M. Baskerville as president, most students at Vanderbilt were members. The early sports played on the Vanderbilt campus were baseball, bicycling, Dudley was primarily responsible for the formation of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association. Sewanees opposition stopped it from occurring, the original members were Alabama, Auburn, Georgia, Johns Hopkins, North Carolina, Sewanee, Vanderbilt, and Virginia. Virginia and North Carolina soon dropped before the inaugural 1895 season, the conference was originally formed for the development and purification of college athletics throughout the South. In 1903, a single-game football playoff occurred, but it seems to have been coordinated more so by the two competing schools than the conference itself, several other efforts over the years by individual schools to hold a conference title game fell through. Most SIAA titles claimed by schools in sports were actually more mythical in nature than officially sanctioned by the league. In 1915, a disagreement arose within the conference regarding the eligibility of freshman athletes, generally, the larger universities opposed the eligibility of freshman players, while the smaller schools favored it. As a result, some of the universities formed the Southern Intercollegiate Conference. At the conferences annual meeting on December 10,1920, the SIAA rejected proposals to ban freshman athletes, in protest, some schools that had voted in favor of the propositions immediately announced they would seek to form a new conference. In 1922, the Southern Conference underwent an expansion and added six more members, all at the expense of the SIAA, Florida, Louisiana State, Mississippi, South Carolina, Tulane, and Vanderbilt. With the departure of most of the colleges, the SIAA became a de facto small college conference in 1923. In the 1920s and 1930s, the SIAA increased its membership with the addition of additional small universities. The conference eventually disbanded in 1942 with the onset of American involvement in World War II, original charter members are denoted in boldface. Invited charter members are denoted with an asterisk, in the era in which the SIAA operated, teams tended to join in December, therefore, the first year of conference play in a given sport was often the following calendar year. Conference affiliations reflect those for the 2016–17 school year
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Southwest Conference
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The Southwest Conference was an NCAA Division I college athletic conference in the United States that existed from 1914 to 1996. Composed primarily of schools from Texas, at times the conference included schools from Oklahoma. After a long period of stability, Arkansas left in 1991 to join the Southeastern Conference, by March 1,1914 a number of schools had responded favorably to the idea. The first organizational meeting of the conference was set to be held on April 30,1914, the date was changed because representatives from every school could not make it then. It was ultimately held on May 5 and 7,1914 at the Oriental Hotel in Dallas, Texas and it was chaired by L. Theo Bellmont. Originally, Bellmont wanted Louisiana State University and the University of Mississippi to join the conference as well, the Southwest Intercollegiate Athletic Conference became an official body on December 8,1914, at a formal meeting at the Rice Hotel in Houston. Rice University left the conference in 1916, only to re-join in 1918, phillips University was a conference member for one year. Oklahoma left in 1919 to join the Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association, however, the series between Texas and Oklahoma would continue as a non-conference matchup in the annual Red River Rivalry game held in Dallas. From 1925 until 1991, the University of Arkansas would be the only member not located within the state of Texas. By 1925, the name was shortened to simply Southwest Conference. After its organizational years, the conference settled into regularly scheduled meetings among its members, the SWC would be guided by seven commissioners, the first of whom, P. W. St. Clair, was appointed in 1938. In 1940, the conference took control of the then five-year-old Cotton Bowl Classic, Texas Technological College joined the SWC in 1958, followed by the University of Houston for the 1976 season. The conference celebrated its glory years in the 1960s, dominated by two teams, Texas and Arkansas. Texas won the 1963 National Championship, and Arkansas won a National Championship in 1964 in the Football Writers Association of America, in 1969, Texas won another National Championship by beating #2-ranked Arkansas 15-14 in the regular seasons final game. The 1969 Arkansas-Texas game in Fayetteville, Arkansas, attended by President Richard Nixon, is counted among the greatest college football games ever played. Texas also won the 1970 United Press International National Championship, which until 1974 was awarded prior to the bowl games, opponents usually were the runners-up from the Big 8 Conference or the Southeastern Conference, although independents Penn State and Notre Dame were also often featured. From the 1940s onward, the Cotton Bowl Classic was counted among the four bowl games. However, in the 1990s, the game declined in importance, in 1977, Notre Dame became the last team to win a national championship in the Cotton Bowl Classic by beating Texas in the January 1978 game
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College Football All-Southern Team
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The College Football All-Southern Team was an all-star team of college football players from the Southern United States. The honor was given annually to the best players at their respective positions and it is analogous to the All-America Team and was most often selected in newspapers. Notable pickers of All-Southern teams include John Heisman, Dan McGugin, Grantland Rice, W. A. Lambeth, Reynolds Tichenor, Nash Buckingham, Innis Brown, virginias 115–0 drubbing by Princeton in 1890 signaled footballs arrival in the south. For example, North Carolina was in both the SIAA and SAIAA at different points in its history, and Virginia Tech had one year in the SIAA. Clemson, today in the ACC, was in the SIAA, the SIAA was the oldest of these, founded in the winter of 1894 by Vanderbilt chemistry professor William Lofland Dudley. This organization really represents the south, as its scope is wider. V. P. I. can scarcely be figured in the calculation as that institution hasnt played any of the S. I. A. A. representatives. South Atlantic writers of course were not fond of this, and would sometimes critique the latest All-Southern selection with titles such as Virginia, in 1922 teams from the SIAA and SAIAA left for the Southern Conference and All-Southern teams become effectively All-Southern Conference teams. By 1933 the contemporary Southeastern Conference was established, Walter Camps annual official All-America first team had been historically loaded with college players from Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Penn, and other Northeastern colleges. Many selectors picked only Eastern players, in 1894, Michigan defeated Cornell and lobbied for its center Fatty Smith to be the first Western All-American. Notably the University of Michigan claims for their center Fatty Smith the supremacy in his position, but the western institutions have not yet mastered the eastern knowledge of all the details and fine points of the game. Smith has made a record against the west and even against Cornell. When brought to face a man like the Stillman of today or the Bulliet of last year, Smith would simply be lost, so it would be with all of the claimants for line positions from western teams. And no one claims for a moment that western back field men could play in the class with eastern men. The selectors were typically Eastern writers and former players who attended games in the East. The article noted, Eastern sporting editors must be devoid of all sense of humor, what man in the lot that have picked All-American elevens this fall, saw a single game outside the North Atlantic States. With a conceit all their own they fail to recognize that the United States reaches more than 200 miles in any direction from New York, suppose an Ohio football writer picked All-American teams. Ohio readers would not stand for it, but apparently the eastern readers will swallow anything
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1909 College Football All-Southern Team
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VPI, an independent school, also claims a Southern championship. The eleven selected by John Heisman included, Eric Cheape, guard for Sewanee and he was a pioneer coach at Huntsville High School. He served in capacity from 1920 to 1932. Doc Fenton, quarterback for LSU, inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1971, freeland, end for Vanderbilt, known as Big un, later coached at various institutions in Texas. Grantland Rice called him the noblest Tiger of them all, the Kappa Alpha Journal gives similar praise that year, calling Lanier The greatest performer of the college game on the Southern field. J. E. Lucas, center for Georgia and his defense drew praise in the losses to Alabama and Georgia Tech. Will Metzger, guard for Vanderbilt, known as Frog, selected for an Associated Press Southeast Area All-Time football team 1869-1919 era, ray Morrison, quarterback for Vanderbilt, selected as the quarterback and kick returner for an Associated Press Southeast Area All-Time football team 1869-1919 era. He was later a coach at various institutions including SMU and Vanderbilt after McGugin and he was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1954. He later played for Harvard Law School, silas Williams†, Sewanee Ewing Y. R. Cecil, Virginia Horace Geyer Jr. Virginia Eric Cheape, Sewanee T. C. GR = selected by Grantland Rice, NTL = published in the Nashville Tennessean, by a writer from Lynnville. NTM = published in the Nashville Tennessean, by a writer from McMinnville, WG = selected by William C. Gloth, coach at Virginia Military Institute
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1910 College Football All-Southern Team
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Vanderbilt post the best record in the SIAA, the only blemish on its record a scoreless tie with defending national champion Yale. Auburn also posted an undefeated record, but lost to Texas. Hamilton Fish’s Harvard Law School All Stars played three games against different All-Southern elevens on December 30,31, and January 2, the one on the 31st had been scheduled for a prior date but had been rained out. The first of these was a tie on muddy ground, the second a 5–0 Harvard victory. On December 7 it was announced Fishs team was to two games against southern teams. A December 26 wire service reported that Fielding Yost “may don the moleskin again. ”He was coaching a “western all-southern eleven” that was to play Harvard Law School in two days. Joining him from his Michigan squad were Germany Schulz and Andrew W. Smith, the Harvard All Stars made a stop in Cincinnati on their way south. The Memphis game on account of rain was then postponed to the 31st, a heavy rain also fell in Nashville on the night of the 28th, and while the game had been expected to start at 2 oclock on the 29th, it was apparently played on the 30th. Yost coached the team and Vanderbilt coach Dan McGugin played in the game for his former coach, in spite of a muddy field the game was fast from start to finish on Old Dudley Field in front of 3,000 spectators. Former Sewanee end Silas Williams played for Harvard while taking graduate courses, on a 110 yard field in those days, Fish had run for 100 yards when caught from behind by Browne 10 yards short of the goal. A blow from Michigans Smith also broke Fishs nose, the game ended as a scoreless tie. Originally the first game scheduled in Memphis finally happened on the 31st and it included many Ole Miss players. Earl Kinnebrew was a standout for the southern team, the Southerners showed unexpected strength in individual defensive work. Harvard won 5 to 0, the points a 25-yard pass from Stephen Galatti to Silas Williams. Then on January 2 Fishs team played a group of LSU players in Baton Rouge, the game was without question the finest exhibition of football ever given in the state. Harvard was hurt by the injuries and length of the trip, Rice also claimed he was harder to surround and tackle than a flea. It was said he could run 100 meters in 10 seconds flat, E. L. Caton, center for Auburn, once coach of Howard. John Heisman considered him one of the souths greatest centers and he managed the southern branch of the Pure Oil company in 1922, which marketed Tiolene, Pennsylvania base motor oil
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1911 College Football All-Southern Team
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Ray Morrison and Harry Costello were selected for Outing magazines Football Honor List for 1911 selected by coaches from the East and West. John Heismans All-Southern eleven included, Rube Barker, tackle for Mississippi, later, he was a practicing physician in Oakland, Illinois. John E. Davis, fullback for Auburn and he was later a notable architect in Birmingham. Freeland, tackle for Vanderbilt, known as Big un, later coached at various institutions in Texas, Roy Goree, end for Georgia Tech. Both his sons played for Tech. Edwin Popes Footballs Greatest Coaches reads A lightning-swift backfield of Lew Hardage, Wilson Collins, Ammie Sikes, the Atlanta Constitution voted it the best backfield in the South. Bob McWhorter, halfback for Georgia. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1954, sportswriter Dick Jemison said When you mention football to an Athens fan its definition is Bob McWhorter, and vice-versa. He was selected for the Associated Press Southeast Area All-Time football team 1869-1919 era, McWhorter went on to have a lengthy law career. Will Metzger, guard for Vanderbilt, known as Frog, selected for an Associated Press Southeast Area All-Time football team 1869-1919 era, later, he was a world-renowned internist and medical professor. Ray Morrison, quarterback for Vanderbilt, selected as the quarterback and kick returner for an Associated Press Southeast Area All-Time football team 1869-1919 era and he was later a coach at various institutions including SMU and Vanderbilt after McGugin. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1954, an Athens newspaper said he was probably the most aggressive lineman in the South. He coached basketball at Ole Miss next year, jenks Gillem, Sewanee By Walton, Mississippi Hargrove Van de Graaff, Alabama Roy Goree, Georgia Tech Enoch Brown, Vanderbilt Ewing Y. Adams, Mississippi Ray Morrison†, Vanderbilt W. J. Williams, Mississippi A & M Kid Woodruff, Georgia Lewie Hardage†, Vanderbilt Bob McWhorter†, Georgia Pete Shields and he had a first and second team. DJ = selected by Dick Jemison in the Atlanta Constitution, NS = selected by Nathan Stauffer of Colliers Weekly. He had a first and second team, BS = selected by Bill Streit, assistant coach at Auburn University. He had a first and second team, NT = selected by Spick Hall in the Nashville Tennessean
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Texas Christian University
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Texas Christian University is a private, coeducational university in Fort Worth, Texas established in 1873 by Addison & Randolph Clark as the AddRan Male & Female College. The campus is located on 272 acres about three miles from downtown Fort Worth, TCU is affiliated with, but not governed by, the Disciples of Christ. The university consists of 8 constituent colleges and schools and has a liberal arts curriculum. Its mascot is the frog, the state reptile of Texas. For most varsity sports TCU competes in the Big 12 conference of the NCAAs Division I, the university enrolls around 10,394, with 8,892 being undergraduates. As of February 2016, TCUs total endowment was $1.514 billion, Texas Christian University was founded by East Texas brothers Addison & Randolph Clark, together with the support of their father Joseph A. Clark. The Clarks were scholar-preacher/teachers associated with the Restoration Movement and these early leaders of the Restoration Movement were the spiritual ancestors of the modern Disciples of Christ, as well as major proponents of education. Following their return from service in the Civil War, brothers Addison and this school, known as the Male & Female Seminary of Fort Worth, operated from 1869 to 1874. Both Clarks nourished a vision for an institution of education that would be Christian in character. They purchased five blocks of land in downtown Fort Worth in 1869 for that purpose, but from 1867–1872, the character of Fort Worth changed substantially due to the commercial influence of the Chisholm Trail, the principal route for moving Texas cattle to the Kansas rail heads. A huge influx of cattle, men, and money transformed the frontier village into a booming, brawling cowtown. Its rough and rowdy reputation had, by 1872, acquired it the nickname of Hells Half Acre, the Clarks feared that this negative environment undermined the fledgling universitys mission. In 1873 the Clark brothers moved South and founded AddRan Male & Female College, TCU recognizes 1873 as its founding year, as it continues to preserve the original college through the AddRan College of Liberal Arts. AddRan College was one of the first coeducational institutions of higher education west of the Mississippi River, and this was a progressive step at a time when only 15% of the national college enrollment was female and almost all were enrolled at womens colleges. At Thorp Spring the fledgling university expanded quickly, the inaugural enrollment in Fall 1873 was 13 students, though this number rose to 123 by the end of the first term. Shortly thereafter, annual enrollment ranged from 200 to 400, at one time more than 100 counties of Texas were represented in the student body. The Clark brothers also recruited prestigious professors from all over the South to join them at Thorp Spring, the standards of the school and the efficiency of its work came to be recognized throughout the United States, and many graduates were welcomed at universities throughout the country. In 1889 AddRan College formed a partnership with what would become the Christian Church
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Millsaps College
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Millsaps College is a private liberal arts college located in Jackson, Mississippi, the state capital. Founded in 1890 and affiliated with the United Methodist Church, Millsaps is home to 985 students, one of 40 colleges featured in Loren Popes Colleges That Change Lives, it is one of only 21 private colleges nationwide named a Best Buy in the 2013 Fiske Guide to Colleges. The college was founded in 1889–90 by a Confederate veteran, Major Reuben Webster Millsaps, Dr. William Belton Murrah was the colleges first president, and Bishop Charles Betts Galloway of the Methodist Episcopal Church South organized the colleges early fund-raising efforts. Both men were honored with halls named in their honor, Major Millsaps and his wife are interred in a tomb near the center of campus. The current United Methodist Church continues to have affiliations with the college,1890, Major Reuben Webster Millsaps founds the college with a personal gift of $50,000. 1901, Millsaps builds the first golf course in Mississippi,1902, Mary Letitia Holloman becomes the first female graduate of Millsaps. 1908, Sing-Ung Zung of Soochow, China, becomes the first international student to graduate from Millsaps,1914, Old Main, one of the first buildings on campus, burns and is replaced by Murrah Hall. 1916, Major Millsaps dies and is buried on campus,1943, Johnny Carson attends Millsaps for V-12 naval officer training, entertaining his comrades with a magic and humor act. 1944, Louis H. Wilson, who graduated from the college in 1941, Wilson became a General and the 26th Commandant of the Marine Corps in 1975. He was the first Marine Corps Commandant to serve full-time on the Joint Chiefs of Staff,1953, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis judge a Millsaps beauty contest. 1965, Millsaps becomes the first all-white college in Mississippi to voluntarily desegregate,1967, Robert Kennedy during his presidential campaign speaks at the college about obligations of young Americans to give back to their country. 1975, President Jimmy Carter speaks to Millsaps students about the crisis in the Middle East,1988, Millsaps initiates the first campus chapter of Habitat for Humanity in Mississippi. 1989, Millsaps becomes the first school in Mississippi to have a chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa honor society and his last day as president of Millsaps College was June 30,2000. Dr. Frances Lucas - Dr. Lucas was the first female to hold the post at Millsaps, Dr. Lucas resigned on April 23,2009. Lucas cited disagreements with faculty as the reason for her resignation, howard McMillan, Dean of Millsaps Else School of Management took over as Interim President in August 2009. Dr. Robert Pearigen, Vice President of University Relations at The University of the South, was selected to serve as the president of the college. He began his term in office on July 1,2010, despite its religious affiliation, the curriculum is secular. The writing-intensive core curriculum requires each student to compile a portfolio of written work before completion of the sophomore year
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Southern Methodist University
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Southern Methodist University is a private research university in Dallas, University Park, and Highland Park, Texas. Founded in 1911 by the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, SMU operates satellite campuses in Plano, Texas, SMU is owned by the South Central Jurisdiction of the United Methodist Church. Of the universitys 11,643 students,6,411 are undergraduates, the main campus of the university is divided into seven schools, including the Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences, the Bobby B. The university was chartered on April 17,1911, by the five Annual Conferences in Texas of the Methodist Episcopal Church, classes were originally planned to start in 1913 but were postponed until 1915. SMU was established after the attempt to relocate Southwestern University from Georgetown, Texas, the first relocation effort by Polytechnic College president Hiram A. Boaz and spearheaded by Southwestern president Robert Stewart Hyer involved merging Southwestern with Polytechnic College. The post-merger university would retain the Southwestern name while occupying Polytechnics campus in Fort Worth, the merger never came to fruition, primarily because the Dallas Chamber of Commerce set up a committee to raise funds and entice Southwestern to relocate to Dallas. This proposal gained traction since Southwestern was operating a medical school in Dallas. Plans were drawn for the campuss first building, Memorial Hall, Southwesterns trustees rejected the relocation plan, prompting Hyers resignation and move to Dallas to establish Southern Methodist University. SMU retained close connections to Southwestern and Polytechnic, Southwestern president Hyer became SMUs first president and Hiram A. Boaz, a Southwestern graduate, resigned as president of Polytechnic to become SMUs second president. Polytechnic attempted to become a school of SMU before becoming a womens college. SMU acquired Southwesterns medical school in Dallas and operated it until 1915, Southwestern and SMU were athletic rivals until Southwestern became a small liberal arts college. The church decided to support the establishment of SMU and dramatically increase the size of Emory University at a new location in DeKalb County, at the 1914 meeting of the General Conference, SMU was designated the connectional institution for all Conferences west of the Mississippi River. Classes were planned to begin in 1913, but construction delays on the universitys first building prevented classes from starting until 1915. In the interim, the only functioning academic department at SMU was the college it had acquired from Southwestern University. SMU named its first building Dallas Hall in gratitude for the support of Dallas leaders and local citizens and it remains the universitys symbol and centerpiece. Designed by Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge after the Rotunda at the University of Virginia, Dallas Hall opened its doors in 1915 and housed the university as well as a bank. It is registered in the National Register of Historic Places, SMUs nickname The Hilltop was inspired by Dallas Hall, which was built on a hill. The universitys first president, Robert Stewart Hyer, selected Harvard crimson, in 1927, Highland Park United Methodist Church, designed by architects Mark Lemmon and Roscoe DeWitt, was erected on campus
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Ray Morrison
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J. Ray Morrison was an American football and baseball player and a coach of football, basketball, and baseball. He served as the football coach at Southern Methodist University, Vanderbilt University, Temple University. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1954. Morrison was also the basketball coach at Vanderbilt for one season in 1918–19, tallying a mark of 8–2. Ray Morrison was born on February 28,1885 in Sugar Branch, soon after the family moved to McKenzie, Tennessee, where Morrison attended school. He also spent a year at McTyiere School for Boys, to achieve funds for college, Morrison worked on a dredge boat on the Mississippi River for a year. He played football as a prominent halfback and quarterback for Dan McGugins Vanderbilt football teams from 1908 to 1911 and he is considered one of the best quarterbacks in Vanderbilts long history. The team posted a 30–6–2 record during his four years, Morrison was selected as the quarterback and kick returner for an Associated Press Southeast Area All-Time football team 1869-1919 era. He weighed some 155 to 159 pounds, the 1908 squad was hampered by a wealth of sophomores, which McGugin with the help of halfback Morrison led to a 7–2–1 campaign, derailed mostly by losses to Sewanee. The 1910 team fought defending national champion Yale to a tie on Yale Field. Yale coach Ted Coy called Morrison the greatest player I have seen in years, the Atlanta Constitution voted it the best backfield in the South. Morrison won Bachelor of Ugliness for the class of 1912, Morrison first taught and was athletics director at Branham & Hughes Military Academy in Spring Hill. Ray Morrison was the first head coach in the history of SMU Mustangs football and he won just two games in two years from 1915 to 1916. Upon American entry into World War I, Morrison went to Fort Oglethorpe and he coached Vanderbilt in 1918 when McGugin left for the military, and led the Vanderbilt team to a 4–2 record. In 1919, Morrison spent a year at Gulf Coast Military Academy as athletics director, in 1920, Morrison returned to SMU. He notably brought the pass to the southwest during his time at SMU. Morrison was one of the first to not just on first down. Gerald Mann was one of his best passers and his teams earned the nickname the Flying Circus
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Texas Tech University
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Texas Tech University, often referred to as Texas Tech, Tech, or TTU, is a public research university in Lubbock, Texas. Established on February 10,1923, and originally known as Texas Technological College, the universitys student enrollment is the sixth-largest in Texas as of the Fall 2014 semester. The university shares its campus with Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, making it the campus in Texas to house an undergraduate university, law school. The university offers degrees in more than 150 courses of study through 13 colleges and hosts 60 research centers, Texas Tech University has awarded over 200,000 degrees since 1927, including over 40,000 graduate and professional degrees. The Carnegie Foundation classifies Texas Tech as having highest research activity, Research projects in the areas of epidemiology, pulsed power, grid computing, nanophotonics, atmospheric sciences, and wind energy are among the most prominent at the university. The Texas Tech Red Raiders are charter members of the Big 12 Conference, the Red Raiders football team has made 36 bowl appearances, which is 17th most of any university. The Red Raiders basketball team has made 14 appearances in the NCAA Division I Tournament, bob Knight has coached the second most wins in mens NCAA Division I basketball history and served as the teams head coach from 2001 to 2008. The Lady Raiders basketball team won the 1993 NCAA Division I Tournament, in 1999, Texas Techs Goin Band from Raiderland received the Sudler Trophy, which is awarded to recognize collegiate marching bands of particular excellence. Though the majority of the students are from the southwestern United States. Texas Tech University alumni and former students have gone on to prominent careers in government, business, science, medicine, education, sports, the call to open a college in West Texas began shortly after settlers arrived in the area in the 1880s. In 1917, the Texas legislature passed a bill creating a branch of Texas A&M to be in Abilene, however, the bill was repealed two years later during the next session after it was discovered Governor James E. Ferguson had falsely reported the site committees choice of location. After new legislation passed in the house and senate in 1921, Governor Pat Neff vetoed it. Furious about Neffs veto, some in West Texas went so far as to recommend West Texas secede from the state, on February 10,1923, Neff signed the legislation creating Texas Technological College, and in July of that year, a committee began searching for a site. When the committees members visited Lubbock, they were overwhelmed to find residents lining the streets to support for hosting the institution. That August, Lubbock was chosen on the first ballot over other towns, including Floydada, Plainview, Big Spring. Construction of the campus began on November 1,1924. Ten days later, the cornerstone of the Administration Building was laid in front of 20,000 people, chitwood served in the position only fifteen months, he died in November 1926. With an enrollment of 914 students—both men and women—Texas Technological College opened for classes on October 1,1925 and it was originally composed of four schools—Agriculture, Engineering, Home Economics, and Liberal Arts
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College football
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It was through college football play that American football rules first gained popularity in the United States. No minor league farm organizations exist in American football and it is in college football where a players performance directly impacts his chances of playing professional football. The best collegiate players will declare for the professional draft after 3 to 4 years of collegiate competition. Those not selected can still attempt to land an NFL roster spot as a free agent. Even after the emergence of the professional National Football League, college football remained extremely popular throughout the U. S, in many cases, college stadiums employ bench-style seating, as opposed to individual seats with backs and arm rests. This allows them to more fans in a given amount of space than the typical professional stadium. College athletes, unlike players in the NFL, are not permitted by the NCAA to be paid salaries, colleges are only allowed to provide non-monetary compensation such as athletic scholarships that provide for tuition, housing, and books. Modern North American football has its origins in various games, all known as football, by the 1840s, students at Rugby School were playing a game in which players were able to pick up the ball and run with it, a sport later known as Rugby football. The game was taken to Canada by British soldiers stationed there and was soon being played at Canadian colleges, the first documented gridiron football match was a game played at University College, a college of the University of Toronto, November 9,1861. One of the participants in the game involving University of Toronto students was William Mulock, a football club was formed at the university soon afterward, although its rules of play at this stage are unclear. In 1864, at Trinity College, also a college of the University of Toronto, F. Barlow Cumberland, modern Canadian football is widely regarded as having originated with a game played in Montreal, in 1865, when British Army officers played local civilians. The game gradually gained a following, and the Montreal Football Club was formed in 1868, early games appear to have had much in common with the traditional mob football played in England. The games remained largely unorganized until the 19th century, when games of football began to be played on college campuses. Each school played its own variety of football, Princeton University students played a game called ballown as early as 1820. A Harvard tradition known as Bloody Monday began in 1827, which consisted of a mass ballgame between the freshman and sophomore classes, in 1860, both the town police and the college authorities agreed the Bloody Monday had to go. The Harvard students responded by going into mourning for a figure called Football Fightum. The authorities held firm and it was a dozen years before football was again played at Harvard. Dartmouth played its own version called Old division football, the rules of which were first published in 1871, all of these games, and others, shared certain commonalities
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College baseball
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College baseball is baseball that is played on the intercollegiate level at institutions of higher education. In comparison to football and basketball, college competition in the United States plays a role in developing professional players. Moving directly from school to the professional level is more common in baseball than in football or basketball. However, if players enroll at a college, they must complete three years to regain eligibility, unless they reach age 21 before starting their third year of attendance. Players who enroll at junior colleges regain eligibility after one year at that level, in the most recently completed 2016 season, there were 300 NCAA Division I teams in the United States. As with most other U. S. intercollegiate sports, competitive college baseball is played under the auspices of the NCAA or the NAIA, the NCAA writes the rules of play, while each sanctioning body supervises season-ending tournaments. The final rounds of the NCAA tournaments are known as the College World Series, the College World Series for Division I takes place in Omaha, Nebraska in June, following the regular season. The playoff bracket for Division I consists of 64 teams, with four teams playing at each of 16 regional sites, the 16 winners advance to the Super Regionals at eight sites, played head-to-head in a best-of-three series. The eight winners then advance to the College World Series, an elimination tournament to determine the two national finalists. The finalists play a series to determine the Division I national champion. In 2016, Coastal Carolina won the College World Series, the first intercollegiate baseball game took place in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, on July 1,1859, between squads representing Amherst College and Williams College. As these efforts resulted in players and overall programs, more television. The ESPN family of greatly increased television coverage of the NCAA playoffs. Soon, in many regions, baseball came to be considered a major sport. And even non-warm weather schools started to recognize baseballs potential and began to put more emphasis on it. Nebraska, Notre Dame, and Oregon State are three examples of cold weather schools with very successful programs. The first two made the College World Series when warm-weather schools placed major emphasis on baseball as well as had the advantage of playing earlier and more games because of favorable climates. Oregon State won back-to-back national championships in 2006 and 2007, at time, archrival Oregon had been without baseball for a quarter-century
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Vanderbilt University
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Vanderbilt University is a private research university founded in 1873 and located in Nashville, Tennessee. It was named in honor of shipping and rail magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt, Vanderbilt hoped that his gift and the greater work of the university would help to heal the sectional wounds inflicted by the Civil War. Today, Vanderbilt enrolls approximately 12,000 students from all 50 U. S. states and over 90 foreign countries in four undergraduate and six graduate, despite its urban surroundings, the campus itself is a national arboretum and features over 300 different species of trees and shrubs. Vanderbilt is ranked as one of the top universities for its teaching, research opportunities. It is ranked 15th on the list of best national universities generated by U. S. News & World Report, however, lack of funds and the ravaged state of the Reconstruction Era South delayed the opening of the college. Indeed, the McTyeires had met at St. Francis Street Methodist Church in Mobile, Cornelius Vanderbilt, who was the wealthiest man in the United States at the time, was considering philanthropy as he was at an advanced age. He had been planning to establish a university on Staten Island, New York, however, McTyeire convinced him to donate $500,000 to endow Central University in order to contribute to strengthening the ties which should exist between all sections of our common country. The endowment was increased to $1 million and would be only one of two philanthropic causes financially supported by Vanderbilt. Though he never expressed any desire that the university be named after himself, McTyeire, Vanderbilt died in 1877 without seeing the school named after him. One of the trustees, Hezekiah William Foote, was a Confederate veteran. The Treasurer of the Board of Trust from 1872 to 1875, Alexander Little Page Green, whose portrait hangs in Kirkland Hall, was a Methodist preacher and a former slave owner. His son-in-law, Robert A. Young, was a Methodist minister who served as the Financial Secretary on the Board of Trust from 1874 to 1882, retiring from the board in 1902. The first building, Main Building, later known as Kirkland Hall, was designed by William Crawford Smith, in the fall of 1875, about 200 students enrolled at Vanderbilt, and in October the university was dedicated. Bishop McTyeire was named Chairman of the Board of Trust for life by Vanderbilt as a stipulation of his endowment, McTyeire named Landon Garland, his mentor from Randolph-Macon College in Virginia and then-Chancellor of the University of Mississippi, as chancellor. Garland shaped the structure and hired the schools faculty, many of whom were renowned scholars in their respective fields. However, most of this faculty left after disputes with Bishop McTyeire, when the first fraternity chapter, Phi Delta Theta, was established on campus in 1876, it was shut down by the faculty, only to be reestablished as a secret society in 1877. Meanwhile, Old Gym, designed by Dutch-born architect Peter J. Williamson, was built in 1879–1880, by 1883, the Board of Trust passed a resolution allowing fraternities on campus, and more chapters were established in 1884. During the first 40 years, the Board of Trust, and therefore the university, was under the control of the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, conflicts escalated after James H. Kirkland was appointed chancellor in 1893
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End (gridiron football)
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An end in American and Canadian football is a player who lines up at either end of the line of scrimmage, usually beside the tackles. Rules state that an offensive formation must always consist of seven players on the line of scrimmage. The position was used in this sense until roughly the 1960s, on offense, an end who lines up close to the other linemen is known as a tight end and is the only lineman who aside from blocking can run or catch passes. One who lines up some distance from the line is known as a split end. In recent years and the proliferation of the pass, the generic term wide receiver has come to define both split ends and flankers. The terms “split end” and “flanker” are often ditched today for terms like X and Z receivers, bill Carpenter was the first Lonesome end. On defense, there is a commonly used position called the defensive end and its primary role is to rush the passer, as well as to stop offensive runs to the outer edges of the line of scrimmage. However, as there are no rules regulating the formation of the defense, players at this position commonly take on, don Hutson of the Alabama Crimson Tide and the Green Bay Packers was one of the sports greatest. The self described other end opposite Hutson in college at Alabama was legendary coach Bear Bryant, gaynell Tinsley was another prominent of Hutsons time. Amos Alonzo Stagg of Yale and Arthur Cumnock of Harvard were ends on the first All-America team, Stagg went on to a hall of fame coaching career, some called Cumnock the greatest Harvard player of all time. Mike Ditka and Ron Sellers were some of the last to play the position in college, glossary of American football History of American football positions Tight end Defensive end Wide receiver
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Lineman (gridiron football)
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In gridiron football, a lineman is a player who specializes in play at the line of scrimmage. The linemen of the currently in possession of the ball are the offensive line. A number of NFL rules specifically address restrictions and requirements for the offensive line, linemen are usually the largest players on the field in both height and weight, since their positions usually require less running and more strength than skill positions. An offensive linemans motion during a play is limited to just a few quick steps to establish position. Offensive linemen thus tend to be the largest players on the field, with excellent agility and balance, most pro and college football offensive lineman tend to weigh over 300 pounds. On passing plays, the line is responsible for stopping defensive players from tackling the quarterback before he has thrown the ball. The interior offensive line consists of the center, who is responsible for snapping the ball into play, in addition to the interior line, a full offensive line may also include a Tight End outside one or both of the tackles. However, ends are eligible to catch passes, when an offensive lineman knocks a player down on a block, leaving the defensive player lying flat on his back, it is colloquially known as a pancake block. When an offensive line has an number of men on either side of the center. The defensive line consists of one or two defensive tackles and two ends who play outside the defensive tackles. The defensive line works with the linebackers to try to control the line of scrimmage, the 4-3 defensive formation, most commonly used in the NFL, employs two defensive tackles, while the 3-4 formation uses just a single defensive tackle, called the nose tackle. However, defensive ends in a typical 3-4 have responsibilities more similar to a 4-3 defensive tackle than 4-3 defensive ends, on running plays, the goal is to tackle the ball carrier. The defensive tackles are usually the most skilled run defenders on the team, on passing plays, the defensive line tries to reach the quarterback. Defensive ends are usually the most skilled pass rushers on the team, in order to increase the pressure on the quarterback, teams will often have players other than the defensive line attempt to tackle the quarterback, this is called a blitz. Defensive linemen—particularly defensive ends—are called upon to do more running than offensive linemen, thus they usually tend to be somewhat lighter and faster
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Double T
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The Double T is a logo that is the most readily identified symbol of Texas Tech University. The Double T is generally attributed to Texas Tech Universitys, then Texas Technological College, first football coach, freeland, and assistant coach, Grady Higginbotham. The Double Ts design draws upon the popular block T of the Texas A&M University logo and it was first used as decoration on the sweaters for the football players during the colleges 1926 football season. The Double T became the logo of the school in 1963. By the 1960s, the school had expanded its offerings to more than just technical subjects, while most students supported this change, the Board of Directors and many alumni, wanting to preserve the Double T logo, opposed it. The Board of Directors chose Texas Tech University, preserving the Double T and it finally received the legislatures approval on June 6 and the name Texas Tech University went into effect that September, preserving the Double T logo. The Double T existed in its form until 2000, when an updated version of the logo was created. The new logo maintains the original premise, but incorporates three-dimensional bevelling effects paired with a white trim, to recognize the importance of the Double T, the class of 1931 donated the Double T bench. Per tradition, freshmen are not allowed to sit on the bench, the logo is further embodied in the Double T neon sign, donated by the class of 1938 and affixed to the east side of Jones AT&T Stadium. At the time of its purchase, this was reputedly the largest neon sign in existence, in August 1987, a second neon Double T was added to the west side of the stadium, funded by Bill McMillan. It was replaced by a stained glass Double T after renovations to the stadium’s west side in 2003
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1921 college football season
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Only California, Cornell, and Lafayette claim national championships for the 1921 season. Andy Smiths Pacific Coast Conference champion Wonder Team at California continued on its streak since 1920, eastern power Cornell was coached by Gil Dobie and led by one of the sports great backfields with George Pfann, Eddie Kaw, Floyd Ramsey, and Charles E. Cassidy. Jock Sutherlands Lafayette Maroons were led on the line by Frank Schwab, big Ten champion Iowa upset Notre Dame 10–7. 1921 was the last season for the old Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association, vanderbilt tied co-champion Georgia on an onside kick. On October 6, Centre upset Harvard 6–0 in what is considered one of the greatest upsets in college football history. Overjoyed students painted the impossible formula C6H0 on everything in sight, Georgia Tech also claimed a conference title. The 1922 Rose Bowl was fought to a tie, between California and Washington & Jefferson, in the last Rose Bowl to be played at Tournament Park. W&J is the smallest school to play in a Rose Bowl. Pittsburgh football game, the first college game to be broadcast live on radio. Today, college football on radio is common for every game in every division. On October 29, Centre College beat Harvard 6 to 0 in what is considered one of the greatest upsets in college football history. Overjoyed students painted the impossible formula C6H0 on everything in sight, in the 1922 Rose Bowl, the heavily favored California Golden Bears played Washington & Jefferson to a scoreless tie
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1922 college football season
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California, Cornell, and Princeton were all picked by multiple selectors. Andy Smiths Pacific Coast Conference champion Wonder Team at California continued on its streak since 1920, Eastern power Cornell was coached by Gil Dobie and led by one of the sports great backfields with George Pfann, Eddie Kaw, Floyd Ramsey, and Charles E. Cassidy. Bill Ropers Princeton team was dubbed the team of destiny by Grantland Rice after defeating Chicago 21–18 in the first game nationally broadcast on radio, today, college football on radio is common for nearly every game in every division. On the same day, Cal defeated USC at the dedication of Rose Bowl Stadium, the Southern Conference would begin its first season of football in 1922. Vanderbilt tied with North Carolina and Georgia Tech for the conference championship, the Commodores tied Michigan 0–0 on October 14 at the dedication of Dudley Field, the Souths first permanent college football stadium. On the same day, Big Ten champion Iowa upset Yale, the 1923 Rose Bowl at seasons end was the first called the Rose Bowl and was held in the newly constructed stadium. In the first bowl appearance for either team, USC beat Penn State 14–3, the 1922 season included the new try for a point rule. Vanderbilt opened its season with a 38-0 win over Middle Tennessee Normal, Baylor beat North Texas 55-0 California beat Santa Clara 45-14. October 7 Princeton defeated Virginia 5-0, Harvard beat Holy Cross 20-0, Iowa beat Knox College 61-0, and Michigan defeated Case 48-0. October 14 Princeton beat Colgate 10-0, Harvard defeated Bowdoin 15-0, in the first game between Eastern and Western teams of the college football season, Iowa dominated Yale. Yale lost to a Western team for the first time ever, in Nashville, Michigan and Vanderbilt played to a 0-0 tie at the inaugural game for Dudley Field, the first dedicated football-only stadium in the South in the style of the Eastern schools. After beating Duke 20-0 in a Thursday game, North Carolina beat South Carolina, Centre gave VPI its only loss of the season. October 21 Harvard had been shocked the year before in a 6-0 upset by the Prayin Colonels of Centre College of Danville, in the rematch, the Crimson beat Centre 24-10. Princeton recorded another shutout, blanking Maryland 26-0, in Dallas, Vanderbilt and Texas, both unbeaten, met at the State Fair, with the Commodores winning 20-10. In Houston, Baylor defeated Rice 31-0, North Carolina won at NC State, 14-9. Iowa won at Illinois 8-7, and Michigan won at Ohio State 19-0, In St. Louis, Drake beat Washington University, 31-7 Baylor beat Arkansas 60-13 California shut out the Olympic Club team, 25-0. October 28 In the first football game ever broadcast nationally on the radio Princeton traveled to the University of Chicago for a rematch of Chicagos 1921 win, the game was witnessed by 32,000 fans, and listened to on New Yorks WEAF radio station. John Thomas ran for three touchdowns and Chicagos Maroons led 18-7 as the quarter began, but a 40-yard fumble return closed the gap
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1925 Texas Tech Matadors football team
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The Texas Tech Red Raiders football teams represented Texas Tech University in the college football seasons of 1925/26 to 1980/81. Originally, the teams played their games at South Plains Fairgrounds. Beginning with the home game of the 1926/27 season, they moved to Tech Field. Later, they began playing games at Clifford B. From 1925 to 1936, the teams were called the Matadors, in a 2013 poll, the 1953,1973, and 1976 seasons were all nominated as being the best seasons in Texas Tech football history. The 1973 team defeated the 2008 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team by a margin of 53. 2% to 46. 8%, Source, Source, Source, Source, Source, Source, Source, Source, Source, Texas Tech wins its second Border Conference championship. Texas Tech wins its third Border Conference championship, Texas Tech wins its fourth Border Conference championship. Texas Tech wins its fifth Border Conference championship, Texas Tech wins its sixth Border Conference championship. Texas Tech wins its seventh Border Conference championship, Texas Tech wins its eighth Border Conference championship. Texas Tech wins its ninth Border Conference championship
