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Florida Gators football
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The Florida Gators football program represents the University of Florida in American college football. Florida competes in the Football Bowl Subdivision of the National Collegiate Athletic Association and they play their home games in Steve Spurrier-Florida Field at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium on the universitys Gainesville campus. The Gators have won three championships and eight SEC titles in the 108-season history of Floridas varsity football program. The Florida football program has evolved from its beginnings and achieved notable successes. Florida has had a home field since the beginning of their football program. Since 1930, their home field has been Steve Spurrier-Florida Field at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium, the stadium was known as Florida Field until 1989 when its name was extended to honor alumnus and sports benefactor Ben Hill Griffin. During the 1990s, football coach Steve Spurrier called the stadium the Swamp, the quickly became popular. Since 1906 Florida has had twenty-five head coaches, including three who were inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame for their coaching success and their first head coach was Pee Wee Forsythe in 1906, the 2015 season was the first for their twenty-fifth head coach, Jim McElwain. During the programs early years, Florida was a member of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association, in 1932 the University of Florida was a founding member of the Southeastern Conference, and it is currently one of fourteen member institutions. The Gators have competed in the SEC Eastern Division since the league began play in 1992. Florida plays an eight-game SEC schedule, with six games against the other Eastern Division teams, Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri, the schedule is filled out with an annual game against Louisiana State and a rotating SEC Western Division team. Until 2003, the Gators also played Auburn every season, Florida has also played in-state rival Florida State every year since 1958, usually facing off in the last game of the regular season. The two teams emergence as perennial football powers during the 1980s and 1990s helped build the Florida–Florida State rivalry into a game often has national-title implications. The remaining dates on Floridas regular schedule are filled by non-conference opponents which vary from year to year, previously known as the worlds largest outdoor cocktail party, it is most commonly called the Florida–Georgia game by Gator fans. The game is held at EverBank Field in Jacksonville, Florida, the designated home team alternates, with ticket distribution split evenly between the schools. In the rivalrys early years, games rotated among locations in Savannah, Georgia, Tampa, Florida, Jacksonville and, occasionally, Gainesville, since 1933 the game has been played in Jacksonville, except for 1994 and 1995. Georgia had early success in the rivalry, winning the first six games, after the 2014 game Florida had won 21 out of the most-recent 27 games, and holds a 38–28–1 advantage in the series since 1950. The Bulldogs lead the overall, 49–43–2
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Georgia Bulldogs football
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The Georgia Bulldogs football program represents the University of Georgia in the sport of American football. The Bulldogs compete in the Football Bowl Subdivision of the National Collegiate Athletic Association and they play their home games at historic Sanford Stadium on the universitys Athens, Georgia, campus. Georgias inaugural season was in 1892, UGA claims two national championships, the AP and Coaches Polls have each voted the Bulldogs the national champion once. UGA declines to claim four national championships awarded by some selecting organizations and publications. The Bulldogs have won 14 conference championships, including 12 SEC Championships, and have appeared in 52 bowl games, the program has also produced two Heisman Trophy winners, four No.1 National Football League draft picks, and many winners of other national awards. The team is known for its history, unique traditions. Georgia was a member of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association. Georgia participated in the SIAA from its establishment in 1895 until 1921, during its tenure in the SIAA, Georgia was conference co-champion in two years,1896 and 1920. In 1921, the Bulldogs, along with 12 other teams, left the SIAA, during its time in the Southern Conference, the team never won a conference championship. In 1932, the Georgia Bulldogs left the Southern Conference to form and join the SEC, the first mention of Bulldogs in association with Georgia athletics occurred on November 28,1901, at the Georgia-Auburn football game played in Atlanta. Traditionally, the choice of a Bulldog as the UGA mascot was attributed to the alma mater of its founders and first president, Abraham Baldwin, prior to that time, Georgia teams were usually known as the Red and Black. After a 0-0 tie with Virginia in Charlottesville on Nov.6,1920, the name has been used ever since. Uga is the name of a lineage of white Bulldogs which have served as the mascot of the University of Georgia since 1956. The current mascot, Que, officially took the role of Uga X on October 23,2015, shortly before Uga IX, or Russ, deceased Ugas are interred in a mausoleum near the main entrance to Sanford Stadium. Georgia is the school to bury its past mascots inside the football stadium. Glory, Glory is the song for the Georgia Bulldogs and was sung at football games as early as the 1890s. The rally song was arranged in its current form by Georgia professor Hugh Hodgson in 1915, while Glory, Glory is the most commonly played Georgia song, the schools official fight song is Hail To Georgia which is played after field goals. Today, freshmen are no longer required to do the chore, with students, alumni, how bout them Dawgs is a slogan of recent vintage that first surfaced in the late 1970s and has become a battle cry of Bulldog fans
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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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EverBank Field
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EverBank Field is an American football stadium in Downtown Jacksonville, Florida, and the home stadium facility of the Jacksonville Jaguars of the National Football League. It is also one of the used by the United States mens national soccer team. The stadium assumed its current name on August 10,2010, on July 25,2014, EverBank made a $43 million deal to keep the name for ten more years, to end in 2024. The current stadium opened in 1995 on the site of the old Gator Bowl Stadium, located on the St. Johns River, it sits on 10 acres of land, including portions of the older stadium. The stadium hosted Super Bowl XXXIX in 2005 and has held a number of college football games as well as concerts. EverBank Field is located in the Stadium District of Downtown Jacksonville, in 1928 the first permanent football stadium, Fairfield Stadium, was constructed. In 1948 this was expanded and renamed Gator Bowl Stadium, in honor of the annual Gator Bowl game first played two years earlier, the current EverBank Field was built using a few portions of the historic Gator Bowl Stadium. However, all of the elements included from the older stadium — the pedestrian ramp system, construction started January 3,1994, and the new stadium opened on August 18,1995, with an exhibition game with the St. Louis Rams. Total construction time was under 20 months and total cost was US$134 million – $60 million of which was provided by the city of Jacksonville. To counter the Citrus Bowls larger monetary offer, Jacksonville mayor Ed Austin proposed a $255 million renovation plan to Jacksonvilles aging Gator Bowl Stadium, which had been built in 1949. On March 23,1993, the two announced they had signed a five-year contract with the Gator Bowl, running from 1997 to 2002. The contract was contingent on Austin successfully passing the $49 million renovation bond issue through the Jacksonville City Council, on Tuesday, May 11, the Jacksonville City Council approved a $219.5 million bond issue, including the $49 million for the renovation of the Gator Bowl. That number climbed higher throughout the summer, and eventually the city reached an agreement with the group of investors hoping to attract an NFL team to Jacksonville. On July 1, the city and investors reached a lease agreement contingent on the city investing $112.3 million for improving the Gator Bowl. The lease agreement later collapsed when the Jacksonville City Council voted to send the lease back to a committee for study rather than approving it. In the end, the bond issue and renovation program proved to be successful. Almost as soon as the celebration surrounding Jacksonvilles new NFL team died down, however, the NAACP and another group said African-American businesses should have been awarded twice that amount of work. The stadiums re-opening day was also the debut of the Jaguars during the 1995 NFL season
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University of Florida
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The University of Florida is an American public land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant research university on a 2, 000-acre campus in Gainesville, Florida. It is a member of the State University System of Florida and traces its origins to 1853. The University is classified as a Research University with Very High Research by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, for 2017, U. S. News & World Report ranked Florida as the fourteenth best public university in the United States. The university is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools and it is the third largest Florida university by student population, and is the eighth largest single-campus university in the United States with 49,913 students enrolled for the fall 2012 semester. The University of Florida is home to sixteen colleges and more than 150 research centers. The University of Florida traces its origins to 1853, when the East Florida Seminary, on January 6,1853, Governor Thomas Brown signed a bill that provided public support for higher education in Florida. Gilbert Kingsbury was the first person to take advantage of the legislation, and established the East Florida Seminary, the East Florida Seminary was Floridas first state-supported institution of higher learning. James Henry Roper, an educator from North Carolina and a senator from Alachua County, had opened a school in Gainesville. In 1866, Roper offered his land and school to the State of Florida in exchange for the relocation of the East Florida Seminary to Gainesville, the second major precursor to the University of Florida was the Florida Agricultural College, established at Lake City by Jordan Probst in 1884. Florida Agricultural College became the states first land-grant college under the Morrill Act, in 1905, the Florida Legislature passed the Buckman Act, which consolidated the states publicly supported higher education institutions. The member of the legislature who wrote the act, Henry Holland Buckman, later became the namesake of Buckman Hall, the Buckman Act organized the State University System of Florida and created the Florida Board of Control to govern the system. The City of Gainesville, led by its Mayor William Reuben Thomas, on July 6,1905, the Board of Control selected Gainesville for the new university campus. Andrew Sledd, president of the pre-existing University of Florida at Lake City, was selected to be the first president of the new University of the State of Florida, architect William A. Edwards designed the first official campus buildings in the Collegiate Gothic style. Classes began on the new Gainesville campus on September 26,1906, in 1909, the schools name was simplified from the University of the State of Florida to the University of Florida. The alligator was incidentally chosen as the mascot in 1911, after a local vendor ordered. Murphree is the only University of Florida president honored with a statue on the campus, before this, only the summer semester was coeducational, to accommodate women teachers who wanted to further their education during the summer break. Lassie Goodbread-Black from Lake City became the first woman to enroll at the University of Florida, john J. Tigert became the third university president in 1928. By the end of the 1946–47 school year,954 men were enrolled at the Tallahassee Branch, the following semester, the Florida Legislature returned the Florida State College for Women to coeducational status and renamed it Florida State University
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University of Georgia
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Its primary location is a 762-acre campus adjacent to the college town of Athens, Georgia, approximately an hours drive from the global city of Atlanta. The university has been labeled one of the Public Ivies, a publicly funded university considered to provide a quality of education comparable to those of the Ivy League. The university was founded in 1785 as the United States first state-chartered university and its historic North Campus is on the U. S. National Register of Historic Places as a designated historic district. The contiguous campus areas include rolling hills, gardens, and extensive green space including nature walks, fields, shrubbery, and large and varied arboreta. Close to the campus is the universitys 58-acre Health Sciences Campus that also has an extensive landscaped green space, more than 400 trees. The university offers over 140 degree programs in an array of disciplines. Consisting of thirteen separate libraries, the UGA Libraries rank among the nation’s largest and best research libraries containing 5.7 million volumes, the University of Georgia is one of 126 member institutions that comprise the Association of Research Libraries. The university is organized into seventeen schools and colleges, the university has three primary campuses. The largest one is the campus in Athens that has 460 buildings. The university has two campuses located in Atlanta and Lawrenceville, Georgia. The university operates several service and outreach stations spread across the state, the total acreage of the university in 30 Georgia counties is 41,539 acres. Varsity and intramural student athletics are a part of student life. UGA served as a member of the SEC in 1932. In their 121-year history, the varsity sports teams have won 39 national championships and 130 conference championships. The Georgia Redcoat Marching Band, the marching band of the university, plays at sports. The Senatus Academicus was composed of the Board of Visitors and the Board of Trustees with the Georgia Senate presiding over those two boards, the first meeting of the universitys board of trustees was held in Augusta, Georgia on February 13,1786. The meeting installed its first president, Abraham Baldwin, a native of Connecticut, Baldwin was a delegate to the 1787 Constitutional Convention, and one of two Georgia delegates to sign the final document. Many features on the University of Georgia campus resemble the campus of Yale, on July 2,1799, the Senatus Academicus met again in Louisville, Georgia and decided that the time was right to open the university
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Southeastern Conference
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The Southeastern Conference is an American college athletic conference whose member institutions are located primarily in the Southern part of the United States. Its fourteen members include the public universities of ten states. The conference is headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, the SEC participates in the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I in sports competitions, for football, it is part of the Football Bowl Subdivision, formerly known as Division I-A. The SEC was also the first NCAA Division I conference to hold a game for college football and was one of the founding members of the Bowl Championship Series. The current SEC commissioner is Greg Sankey, the conference sponsors team championships in nine mens sports and twelve womens sports. The SEC consists of 14 member institutions located within the borders of 11 contiguous states and these divisional groupings are applied exclusively to football and baseball as well as their scheduling and standings. The other charter members were, The University of the South left the SEC on December 13,1940 and it is currently a member of the Division III Southern Athletic Association. Georgia Institute of Technology left the SEC in 1964, in 1975, it became a founding member of the Metro Conference, one of the predecessors to todays Conference USA. Georgia Tech competed in the Metro Conference in all sports except football, in 1978, Georgia Tech joined another Southern Conference offshoot, the Atlantic Coast Conference, for all sports, where it has remained ever since. Tulane University left the SEC in 1966, along with Georgia Tech, it was a charter member of the Metro Conference. Unlike Tech, however, Tulane remained in the Metro Conference until it merged with the Great Midwest Conference in 1995 to form Conference USA, Tulane remained an independent in football until C-USA began football competition in 1996. Tulane left C-USA in 2014 for the American Athletic Conference, in 1990, the SEC expanded from ten to twelve member universities with the addition of the Arkansas Razorbacks and the South Carolina Gamecocks. The two new members began SEC competition with the 1991–1992 basketball season, at the same time, the SEC organized competition for some sports into two divisions. Initially, the format was used in football, baseball. The divisional format was dropped for mens basketball following the 2011–2012 season, the 1992 and 1993 championship games were held at Legion Field in Birmingham, and all championship games from 1994 onward have been held at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta. On November 6,2011 the SEC commissioner announced that the University of Missouri would also join the SEC on July 1,2012, for football, Texas A&M was scheduled to compete in the Western Division, and Missouri in the Eastern Division. Texas A&M and Missouri both left the Big 12 Conference, the office of Commissioner was created in 1940. Under the leadership of Michael F, the SECU rebranded its mission to better serve as a means through which the collaborative academic endeavors and achievements of Southeastern Conference universities would be promoted and advanced
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Jacksonville, Florida
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Jacksonville is a seaport city and the seat of Duval County, Florida, United States. With an estimated 868,031 residents as of 2015, Jacksonville is the most populous city in both the state of Florida and the southeastern United States. It is estimated to be the 12th most populous city in the United States and is the largest city by area in the contiguous United States. The Jacksonville metropolitan area has a population of 1,603,497 and is the 34th largest in the United States and fourth largest in the state of Florida. The city is situated on the banks of the St. Johns River, in the First Coast region of North Florida, prior to European settlement, the Jacksonville area was inhabited by Native American people known as the Timucua. In 1564, the French established the colony of Fort Caroline at the mouth of the St. Johns River. In 1822, a year after the United States gained Florida from Spain, Jacksonville is the cultural, commercial and financial center of North Florida. A major military and civilian deep-water port, the citys riverine location supports two United States Navy bases and the Port of Jacksonville, Floridas third largest seaport. The two US Navy bases, Blount Island Command and the nearby Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay, Jacksonville is also home to several colleges and universities, including University of North Florida, Jacksonville University and Florida State College at Jacksonville. The area of the city of Jacksonville has been inhabited for thousands of years. In the 16th century, the beginning of the era, the region was inhabited by the Mocama. At the time of contact with Europeans, all Mocama villages in present-day Jacksonville were part of the powerful chiefdom known as the Saturiwa, centered around the mouth of the St. Johns River. One early map shows a village called Ossachite at the site of what is now downtown Jacksonville, French Huguenot explorer Jean Ribault charted the St. Johns River in 1562 calling it the River of May because he discovered it in May. Ribault erected a column near present-day Jacksonville claiming the newly discovered land for France. In 1564, René Goulaine de Laudonnière established the first European settlement, Fort Caroline, philip II of Spain ordered Pedro Menéndez de Avilés to protect the interest of Spain by attacking the French presence at Fort Caroline. On September 20,1565, a Spanish force from the nearby Spanish settlement of St. Augustine attacked Fort Caroline, the Spanish renamed the fort San Mateo, and following the ejection of the French, St. Augustines position as the most important settlement in Florida was solidified. The location of Fort Caroline is subject to debate but a reconstruction of the fort was established on the St. Johns River in 1964. Spain ceded Florida to the British in 1763 after the French and Indian War, the British introduced the cultivation of sugar cane, indigo and fruits as well the export of lumber
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Tailgate party
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A tailgate party is a social event held on and around the open tailgate of a vehicle. Tailgating, which originated in the United States, often involves consuming alcoholic beverages, Tailgate parties occur in the parking lots at stadiums and arenas, before and occasionally after games and concerts. People attending such a party are said to be tailgating, many people participate even if their vehicles do not have tailgates. Tailgate parties also involve people bringing their own beverages, barbecues. Tailgates are intended to be non-commercial events, so selling items to the fans is frowned upon, tailgating typically involves the consumption of alcoholic beverages or soft drinks and the grilling of various meat products. Popular tailgate party foods include picnic staples such as hamburgers, hot dogs, baked beans, some food products were created because of tailgate parties. A brand of cheese, called Palmetto Cheese, got its start at Atlanta Braves tailgate parties. Lawn games such as KanJam, cornhole, Ladder Golf, Polish horseshoes, Louisville Chugger, Jarts and Sholf are very popular during tailgates, Lawn games are associated with tailgating primarily because of the simplicity in the game materials. Lawn games carry the connotation of drinking games because of their presence during tailgates, other games include beer pong, ladder toss, washer pitching and flipcup. It is also common for fans to bring out stereo equipment to tailgate parties to dance, in 2007, the NFL angered many football fans by banning tailgating before the Super Bowl. The NFL cited security risks, though suspected it had more to do with corporate sponsored events than any real threat. In 2008, a petition began circulating to encourage the NFL to lift the no tailgating at the Super Bowl policy. Members of the media also questioned the validity of NFLs claim that security concerns was the real reason for the ban. In the Simpsons episode Any Given Sundance, Homer takes his family to a tailgate party. He makes them get up early in order to be at the hours before the football game, and states that the game is nothing. Season 3 of the Travel Channel original series Man v. Food had a special consisting of various segments from previous episodes that featured food that would make an ultimate tailgate party. A number of commercials, especially those aired during football games, feature tailgating culture, including those for Bud Light beer. Drinking in public Lawn game Reining In Tailgate Parties A Challenge For Colleges - report by NPR
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Macon, Georgia
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Macon /ˈmeɪkən/ is a city located in the state of Georgia, United States. Macon lies near the center of the state, approximately 85 miles south of Atlanta. Settled near the line of the Ocmulgee River, Macon is the county seat of Bibb County and had a 2014 estimated population of 153,691. Macon is the city of the Macon metropolitan area, which had an estimated population of 231,259 in 2014. In a 2012 referendum, voters approved the consolidation of Macon and Bibb County, the two governments officially merged on January 1,2014. Macon is served by three highways, I-16, I-75, and I-475. The city has several institutions of education, as well as numerous museums. The area is served by the Middle Georgia Regional Airport and the Herbert Smart Downtown Airport, the mayor of Macon is Robert Reichert, a former Democratic member of the Georgia House of Representatives. Reichert was elected mayor of the consolidated city of Macon–Bibb. Macon lies on the site of the Ocmulgee Old Fields, where the historic Creek Indians lived in the 18th century and their prehistoric predecessors, the Mississippian culture, built a powerful chiefdom based on an agricultural village and constructed earthwork mounds for ceremonial, burial and religious purposes. The areas along the rivers in the Southeast had been inhabited by varying cultures of indigenous peoples for 13,000 years before Europeans arrived. Macon developed at the site of Fort Benjamin Hawkins, built from 1806–1809 at the line of the Ocmulgee River to protect the new frontier. The fort was named in honor of Benjamin Hawkins, Superintendent of Indian Affairs for the Southeast territory south of the Ohio River for more than two decades and he lived among the Creek and had a Creek wife. This was the most inland point of navigation on the river from the Low Country, president Thomas Jefferson forced the Creek to cede their lands east of the Ocmulgee River and ordered the fort built. A gathering point of the Creek and American cultures for trading, it was also a center of state militia, the fort served as a major military distribution point during the War of 1812 against Great Britain and also during the Creek War of 1813. Afterward, the fort was used as a trading post for years and was garrisoned until 1821. It was decommissioned about 1828 and later burned to the ground, a replica of the southeast blockhouse was built in 1938 and stands today on a hill in east Macon. Part of the site is occupied by the Fort Hawkins Grammar School
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Gainesville, Florida
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Gainesville is the county seat and largest city in Alachua County, Florida, United States, and the principal city of the Gainesville, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population of Gainesville in the 2013 US Census estimates was 127,488, Gainesville is the largest city in the region of North Central Florida. It is also a component of the Gainesville-Lake City Combined Statistical Area, Gainesville is home to the University of Florida, the nations ninth-largest university campus by enrollment, as well as to Santa Fe College. The Gainesville MSA was ranked as the No.1 place to live in North America in the 2007 edition of Cities Ranked and Rated, also in 2007, Gainesville was ranked as one of the best places to live and play in the United States by National Geographic Adventure. About 12,000 years ago Paleo-Indians lived in Florida, although it is not known for certain whether any permanent settlements from that period were in the present city limits of Gainesville, archaeological evidence of human presence exists. Eventually more complex social organization and agricultural practices emerged into what archaeologists classify as the Deptford culture, a Deptford culture campsite has been excavated beneath the subsequent Alachua culture Law School Burial Mound on the grounds of the University of Florida. The UF campus burial mound was built about 1000 A. D. by Alachua culture inhabitants who lived along the shore of Lake Alice. In the recorded period, the region was home to the Potano, the remaining Timucua were converted to Roman Catholicism and organized into missions overseen by Franciscan priests. The Mission San Francisco de Potano, the first doctrina in Florida west of the St. Johns River, was founded in 1606 at the edge of present-day San Felasco Hammock Preserve State Park. Chief Potanos town was relocated in the period to the vicinity of the Devils Millhopper. Spanish colonists began cattle ranching in the Paynes Prairie area using Timucua labor, between 1763 and 1784 what is now Gainesville fell within the jurisdiction of the colony of British East Florida. Gainesville was founded to place the Alachua County seat on the route of the Florida Railroad Companys line stretching from Cedar Key to Fernandina Beach. County residents decided to move the county seat from Newnansville in 1853, a site on Black Oak Ridge where the railroad was expected to cross it was selected in 1854. It is generally accepted that the new settlement was named for General Edmund P. Gaines, the railroad was completed from Fernandina to Gainesville in 1859, passing six blocks south of the courthouse. Hogtown is the village of the adjacent Hogtown Creek, which flows 5.7 miles through Gainesville. Hogtown continued to exist until after Gainesville was founded, as evidenced on a map showing both towns, which was published in 1864 based on surveys from 1855, two residents of Hogtown played a prominent role in establishing Gainesville. William Lewis, who owned a plantation in Hogtown, delivered 20 votes pledged to him to create a new town on the route of the railroad. Tillman Ingram, who owned a plantation and a sawmill in Hogtown
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Lake City, Florida
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Lake City is the county seat of Columbia County, Florida, United States. As of the 2010 census, the population was 12,046. It is the city of the Lake City Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is composed of Columbia County. The citys sesquicentennial was held in 2009, the site of Lake City was a Seminole village named Alpata Telophka or Hvlpvtv Tvlofv, meaning Alligator Village. By 1830, a Euro-American town called Alligator was established, adjacent to the Seminole town, the city was incorporated and changed to its current name in 1859. The name was changed because the wife, who had recently moved to the town. Local bodies of water include Lake DeSoto, Lake Isabella, Alligator Lake, Lake Hamburg, Gwen Lake, Lake Harper, the Civil War Battle of Olustee took place east of Lake City, near Olustee in Baker County, in February 1864. It was the major battle in Florida during the war. Union casualties were 1,861 men killed, wounded or missing, the Confederate dead were buried in Lake City. By the early 20th century, Lake City had become an important railroad junction, served by the Seaboard Air Line, Atlantic Coast Line, Georgia Southern Railroad, and the Florida Railroad. Florida Agricultural College, one of the four schools formed the University of Florida, was originally located in Lake City before consolidation to Gainesville in 1905. By 1950, the population of Lake City was 7,467 people, in 1958, the Columbia Amateur Radio Society was formed. This was a group of radio operators that enjoyed the ability to communicate all over the world. This radio club still exists today, Lake Citys centennial was celebrated in 1959 with parades, fireworks and a 58-page book documenting one hundred years of progress, A Century in the Sun. The citizens of the town dressed in attire, complete with whiskers. A good-natured clash arose between the men with facial hair and the women who did not like it. Lake City has two historic districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior, the Lake City Historic Commercial District is located in the downtown city core and was designated on June 6,1994. The Lake Isabella Historic Residential District is located south of the portion of town and was designated on November 15,1993
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University of Florida Athletic Association
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The UAA is run by a board of directors led by the University of Floridas athletic director. The athletic director also acts as the UAAs chief financial officer, the athletic association was originally incorporated in 1929 with impetus from university president John J. Tigert to oversee the construction of Florida Field. Since then, its mission has grown to include operating and improving all of the athletic programs. The UAA does not depend on the University of Floridas state funding for financial support, jeremy Foley, who spent his entire working career with UFs Athletic Association, was the first University of Florida AD to have never previously been a coach or a scholarship athlete at the school. Foley retired in 2016, and Scott Stricklin, his replacement, history of the University of Florida List of University of Florida Athletic Hall of Fame members
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Florida Legislature
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The Florida Legislature is the two houses that act as the state legislature of the U. S. state of Florida. The Florida Constitution states that The legislative power of the state shall be vested in a legislature of the State of Florida, composed of a Senate, the legislature is seated at the Florida State Capitol in Tallahassee. Both chambers have been under Republican control since 1996, the Legislature is composed of 160 state legislators. Members are term-limited to eight years, however, there is no limit on the total number of terms. The state legislature beginning in March for a period not to exceed 60 calendar days. Special sessions are called as needed and its statutes, called chapter laws or generically as slip laws when printed separately, are compiled into the Laws of Florida and are called session laws. The Florida Statutes are the statutory laws of the state. The Florida Legislature is authorized by the Florida Constitution to create and amend the laws of the U. S. state of Florida, to do so, legislators propose legislation in the forms of bills drafted by a nonpartisan, professional staff. The Legislature also has the power to propose amendments to the Florida Constitution, the rules for the Florida Legislature are laid out within the Constitution of Florida, and is also prescribed the respective chambers when applicable. Florida has had a total of six different state constitutions, signed in 1838,1861,1865,1868,1885, in 2009, legislators filed 2,138 bills for consideration. On average, the Legislature has passed about 300 bills into law annually, earmarks that have not gone through the normal legislative process are known colloquially as turkeys. In 2010, Florida TaxWatch, a government watchdog organization, counted 41 turkeys totaling $61 million, the Florida Constitution mandates a bicameral state legislature with an upper house Florida Senate of no more than 40 members and a lower Florida House of Representatives of no more than 120 members. Due to term limits, state representatives may be elected for up to four terms, former members can be elected again after a two-year break. Both chambers have been under Republican control since 1996, the House of Representatives is headed by the Speaker, while the Senate is headed by the President. The House Speaker and Senate President control the assignment of committees and leadership positions, the two leaders, along with the Governor of Florida, control most of the agenda of state business in Florida. While sessions in odd-numbered years must begin on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in March, legislators start committee activity in September of the year prior to the regular session. This is to promote their bills through committee in time for the official session, on the fourteenth day following each general election, the Legislature meets for an organization session to organize and select officers. Special sessions may be called by the governor, by a joint proclamation of the Senate President and House Speaker, in 2013, the legislature filed about 2000 bills
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Steve Spurrier
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Stephen Orr Spurrier is a former American football player and coach. Spurrier served as the coach of three college and two professional teams. He was also a college football player, and spent a decade playing professionally in the National Football League. Spurrier retired from coaching in 2015 and now serves as an ambassador and he is nicknamed the Head Ball Coach. Spurrier was born in Miami Beach, Florida and grew up in Tennessee and he is a graduate of the University of Florida, where he was the Florida Gators starting quarterback for three seasons. Spurrier won the Heisman Trophy in his season of 1966, was a consensus All-American in both 1965 and 1966, and he was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a player in 1986. Spurrier was drafted in the first round of the 1967 NFL draft by the San Francisco 49ers, in 1976, the expansion Tampa Bay Buccaneers traded for Spurrier, and he was the teams starting quarterback for most of their inaugural season. After retiring as a player, Spurrier returned to the game in 1978 as an offensive assistant at Florida under head coach Doug Dickey. Dickey and his staff were fired after the season, and Spurrier served as the quarterbacks coach at Georgia Tech in 1979 under head coach Pepper Rodgers. At his first two coaching stops, Spurrier had been primarily a position coach without play calling responsibilities, in 1980, Duke University head coach Red Wilson hired Spurrier as his offensive coordinator. When asked in later years how he developed his offense, Spurrier has often stated that he learned it all at Duke University, the Bandits had a successful run, going 35-19 over three seasons, and Spurriers Bandit Ball offense was popular with fans. However, the team folded along with the rest of the USFL after the 1985 season, Spurrier returned to Duke University as the Blue Devils head coach in 1987, and his Fast Break offense broke many of the records set during his tenure as offensive coordinator. Spurriers 1989 Duke squad won the programs first conference championship since 1962, in 1990, Spurrier returned to the University of Florida to become the Gators head coach. For the next seasons, he led Floridas program to unprecedented success, including Floridas first six Southeastern Conference championships. His wide-open offensive scheme continued to produce at Florida, and his squads and individual players set numerous school, in 1996, Spurrier became the first Heisman Trophy winner to coach a Heisman Trophy winner when Florida quarterback Danny Wuerffel won the award. In 2005, he returned to the game as the head coach of the South Carolina Gamecocks. Spurrier retired as the winningest coach in both Florida and South Carolina history, and has the second most coaching wins in the history of the SEC behind only Bear Bryant. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 2017, in July 2016, Spurrier returned to the University of Florida as an ambassador and consultant to the athletic department
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1966 Florida Gators football team
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The 1966 Florida Gators football team represented the University of Florida in the sport of American football during the 1966 college football season. The Gators competed in the University Division of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, in their seventh season under head coach Ray Graves, the Gators compiled a 9–2 overall win-loss record, finished 5–1 and placed third among the SECs ten teams. The Gators were not ranked in the final AP Poll, Spurrier won the 1966 Heisman Trophy and was the unanimous first-team quarterback on the 1966 All-America Team. He completed 179 of 291 passes for 2,012 yards and 16 touchdowns with eight interceptions, tailback Larry Smith was the teams leading rusher with 742 yards and nine touchdowns on 162 carries. Smith was also selected as the most valuable player in the 1967 Orange Bowl after setting two Orange Bowl records with 187 rushing yards and a 94-yard touchdown run, finally, flanker Richard Trapp set a new team record with 63 catches during the 1966 season. In addition to Spurrier, center Bill Carr was the only other first-team All-American, receiving first-team honors from Time magazine. Five Gators received first-team honors from either the Associated Press or United Press International on the 1966 All-SEC football team. Carr, Smith, Spurrier and Trapp were consensus first-team picks by both the AP and UPI, while guard Jim Benson took first-team honors from the UPI, the 1965 Florida team compiled a 7–4 record and finished in third place in the SEC. Quarterback Steve Spurrier returned to the 1966 team, but his two leading receivers, Charles Casey and Barry Brown, were lost to graduation, before the season began, head coach Ray Graves noted, This team has to be a question mark. I dont know what type of football team we have, primary source,2015 Florida Gators Football Media Guide. The Gators opened their 1966 season on September 17, with a 43–7 victory over the Northwestern Wildcats at Florida Field, quarterback Steve Spurrier passed for 219 yards and three touchdowns and kicked two field goals in the game. Receiver Richard Trapp caught two passes and Ealdsen caught another. Back-up quarterback Harmon Wages also scored on a 25-yard run, preston also scored on a 15-yard pass from Kay Stephenson. In all, Florida gained 506 yards of offense,206 rushing and 302 passing. On September 24,1966, Florida won its game of the season by a 28–7 score over Mississippi State. The game was played before a crowd of 49,333 at Florida Field. The first half ended in a 7–7 tie, but the Gators scored three touchdowns in a span in the third quarter. Quarterback Steve Spurrier threw two passes, a 16-yard pass to Jack Coons and a 13-yard pass to end Paul Ewaldsen
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SEC Championship Game
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The SEC Championship Game is an annual American football game that has determined the Southeastern Conferences season champion since 1992. The championship game pits the SEC Western Division regular season champion against the Eastern Division regular season champion and it is typically played on the first Saturday of December. Ten of the fourteen current SEC members have played in the SEC Championship Game, kentucky and Vanderbilt have yet to reach the game from the East, while Ole Miss and Texas A&M have yet to reach the game from the West. The overall series between both divisions is led by the Western Division, 14–11. While ten SEC members have played in the game, only six have won, Florida, Georgia, and Tennessee of the Eastern Division, and Alabama, Auburn, each of these teams has won the championship multiple times. Alabama is the current SEC champion, since 2007, the game is held the first Saturday of December at 4,00 PM Eastern. The SEC was the first NCAA conference in any division to hold a championship game that was exempt from NCAA limits on regular-season contests. Such a game was possible by two separate developments. The format has since adopted by other conferences to decide their football champion. The first two SEC Championship Games were held at Legion Field in Birmingham, Alabama, from 1994 until 2016, the game has been played at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta. With the Georgia Dome scheduled to be demolished after the 2016 season, the game will be played at the new stadium through 2027. And at least one of two teams has qualified for the game in 14 of 25 seasons. The only other matchup in the SEC Championship played more than twice is Georgia and LSU, Alabama has faced Florida in nine of their eleven SEC Championship Game appearances. In addition, the 2009 game marked the second year that the No.1. 2009 was the first time any conference championship game had featured two undefeated teams, Alabama won 32–13 and earned a berth in the 2010 BCS National Championship Game, which it went on to win as well. Auburn and Missouri met in the 2013 SEC Championship Game, Auburn won the game 59–42, breaking the previous record of 56 points for most points scored by a single team in the SEC Championship Game. In recent years, the game has been nicknamed the national semi-final for college football, the 2008,2009, and 2012 games were essentially national semi-final games, as both participating teams were virtually guaranteed a berth in the BCS national championship game with a win. The 2013 game was not thought of as such at the time of the game, between 2006 and 2013 the winner of the SEC Championship Game went on to play in the BCS National Championship Game eight straight years, posting a 6-2 record in the game
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Ben Hill Griffin Stadium
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Ben Hill Griffin Stadium, popularly known as The Swamp, is the football stadium for the University of Florida and the home field of the universitys Florida Gators football team. It is located on the universitys Gainesville, Florida campus, the stadium was originally built in 1930, and has been regularly expanded, renovated and improved since then. It is the 12th largest stadium in American college football, as measured by its seating capacity of 88,548 – though it has often held in excess of 90,000 for the Gators home football games. The stadium is located on the edge of the University of Florida campus near the center of Gainesville. The stadium and its approach are bordered by West University Avenue on the side, Gale Lemerand Drive on the west. Just west of the stadium across Gale Lemerand Drive is the Stephen C, OConnell Center, which is the home arena for the Florida Gators mens basketball, womens basketball, gymnastics, volleyball, and swimming and diving teams. Just beyond the OConnell Center are the teams practice facilities and Alfred A. McKethan Stadium. Prior to the 2015 Season a new practice facility was added just north of the baseball field. However, the surface remained Florida Field, and the facilitys full name was Ben Hill Griffin Stadium at Florida Field from 1990 until 2016. On September 3,2016, the surface was renamed in honor of former Florida quarterback. As UF athletic director Jeremy Foley explained, Coach Spurrier did more than win a Heisman Trophy, a championship. Coach Spurrier changed the culture of Florida athletics, as a result, the facilitys official name is now Steve Spurrier-Florida Field at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium. The facility may be best known as simply The Swamp, a nickname which was coined by Spurrier in the early 1990s, in describing Floridas home-field advantage, Spurrier noted that a swamp is where Gators live. We feel comfortable there, but we hope our opponents feel tentative, a swamp is hot and sticky and can be dangerous. Both the nickname and the only Gators get out alive tagline quickly became popular and have commonly used ever since. The university built a field in the summer of 1911. A grove of trees along University Avenue was cleared and leveled, a single bank of low wooden bleachers were built. Larger bleachers were installed by 1915, when the facility was rechristened Fleming Field in honor of former Florida governor Francis P. Fleming
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Jacksonville Jaguars
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The Jacksonville Jaguars are an American professional football franchise based in Jacksonville, Florida. The Jaguars compete in the National Football League as a club of the American Football Conference South division. The team plays its games at EverBank Field. The Jaguars and the Carolina Panthers joined the NFL as expansion teams for the 1995 season, since their inception, the Jaguars have won division championships in 1998 and 1999 and have qualified for the playoffs six times, most recently in 2007. From their inception until 2011, the Jacksonville Jaguars majority owner was Wayne Weaver, the team was then purchased by Pakistani-born businessman Shahid Khan for an estimated $770 million. In 2015, Forbes estimated the value at $1.48 billion. In 1989, the ownership group Touchdown Jacksonville. The group initially included future Florida Governor Jeb Bush and Jacksonville developer Tom Petway, in 1991, the NFL announced plans to add two expansion teams in 1994, its first expansion since the 1976 addition of the Seattle Seahawks and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Announced its bid for a team, and Jacksonville was ultimately chosen as one of five finalists, along with Charlotte, St. Louis, Baltimore, Jacksonville was considered the least likely expansion candidate for several reasons. The Jacksonville metropolitan area and television market were smaller than those of every team in the league. There were 635,000 people in Jacksonville proper according to the 1990 census, additionally, the Gator Bowl was outdated, and the ownership group struggled to negotiate a lease with the city. The troubled negotiations over the Gator Bowl lease led the group to withdraw from the NFL expansion bidding in July 1993. Charlotte was awarded the first franchise – the Carolina Panthers – in October 1993, surprisingly, the naming of the second expansion city was delayed a month. Most pundits speculated that the delay was made to allow St. Louis to shore up its bid, at the time, St. Louis was considered the favorite for the second franchise, with Baltimores three bids also considered strong. However, in a move, the NFL owners voted 26–2 in favor of awarding the 30th franchise to Jacksonville. After the Gator Bowl game on December 31,1993, the old stadium was demolished and replaced with a reinforced concrete superstructure. All that remained of the old stadium was the west upper concourse, in January 1994 Wayne Weaver chose Tom Coughlin as the first-ever head coach of the Jaguars. While he had previously had success with Boston College, many at the time believed his hiring was a risky move
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Jacksonville Landing
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The Jacksonville Landing is a festival marketplace in Downtown Jacksonville, Florida. It is located at the intersection of Independent Drive and Laura Street and it was built by the Rouse Company at a cost of $37.5 million and opened in 1987. The 126,000 square feet center is comparable to New York Citys South Street Seaport, Bostons Faneuil Hall and Miamis Bayside Marketplace, the Jacksonville Landing was designed and built by the Rouse Company, who developed a number of similar structures in other cities. It opened its doors on June 25,1987, the Jacksonville Landing hosted a week-long celebration featuring a drum and bugle corps, balloon release, community choirs and national acts. The Rouse company partnered with City of Jacksonville, who contributed $20 million toward the construction of a marketplace that would revitalize the citys core. The entire second level of the building was devoted to the Founders Food Hall. The decor featured silhouettes of 17 individuals who had a role in the settlement of North Florida, outside seating included a view of the center courtyard fountain, stage, and the river. However, anticipated foot traffic never reached projected numbers and within four years, the west side of the food court became a video arcade named Ostrich Landing. The Landings first bar was Fat Tuesdays, which offered frozen alcoholic beverages, the business attracted a mostly younger clientele, and the Landing management decided not to renew their 10-year lease when it expired, citing a desire for an older crowd. In 2003, the Rouse Company announced it would sell the Jacksonville Landing to local developer Toney Sleiman for $5.1 million, in 2010, the 23-year obligation was finally resolved. The Jacksonville City Council passed a bill to contribute $3.5 million toward Sleimans purchase of a parking lot across from the Landing. That money included a 20-year parking validation program at a cost of $2.5 million to the city, mayor John Peyton vetoed the bill, but the council voted unanimously to override the veto. The two-level glass-and-steel complex with the roof is located on the north bank of the St. Johns River. The 9-acre complex features 65 stores as well as dining, with full-service restaurants plus a food court, the Landing stages a variety of special events. There is weekly live music on the courtyard stage, most events take place in the open brick courtyard in the center of the horseshoe shaped structure. Just before the Georgia-Florida football game in 2007, the Landing installed a 19x15 foot JumboTron in the courtyard. The Jacksonville Landing has a local base of over 65,000 Downtown office workers. According to various Florida travel sources, it has been an icon for Jacksonville, Downtown Improvement District for Jacksonville claims it is a popular tourist destination
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St. Johns River
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The St. Johns River is the longest river in the U. S. state of Florida and its most significant one for commercial and recreational use. At 310 miles long, it winds through or borders twelve counties, three of which are the states largest. The drop in elevation from headwaters to mouth is less than 30 feet, like most Florida waterways and it is notable among some that the rivers course flows north, a relatively rare characteristic. Numerous lakes are formed by the river or flow into it, the narrowest point is in the headwaters, an unnavigable marsh in Indian River County. The St. Johns drainage basin of 8,840 square miles includes some of Floridas major wetlands and it is separated into three major basins and two associated watersheds for Lake George and the Ocklawaha River, all managed by the St. Johns River Water Management District. It has been the subject of William Bartrams journals, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings books, when attention was turned to the state, however, much of the land was rapidly overdeveloped in a national zeal for progress. The St. Johns, like many Florida rivers, was altered to make way for agricultural and residential centers and it suffered severe pollution and human interference that has diminished the natural order of life in and around the river. In all,3.5 million people live within the watersheds that feed into the St. Johns River. The St. Johns, named one of 14 American Heritage Rivers in 1998, was included on a list of Americas Ten Most Endangered Rivers in 2008. Restoration efforts are under way for the basins around the St. Johns as Florida continues to deal with population increases in the rivers vicinity, starting in Indian River County and meeting the Atlantic Ocean at Duval County, the St. Johns is Floridas primary commercial and recreational waterway. It flows north from its headwaters, originating in the direction of the Lake Wales Ridge, because of this low elevation drop, the river has a long backwater. It ebbs and flows with tides that pass through the barrier islands, uniquely, it shares the same regional terrain as the parallel Kissimmee River, although the Kissimmee flows south. The St. Johns River is separated into three basins and two associated watersheds managed by the St. Johns River Water Management District, because the river flows in a northerly direction, the upper basin is located in the headwaters of the river at its southernmost point. Indian River County is where the river begins as a network of marshes, the St. Johns River is a blackwater stream, meaning that it is fed primarily by swamps and marshes lying beneath it, water seeps through the sandy soil and collects in a slight valley. The upper basin measures approximately 2,000 square miles, the St. Johns transforms into a waterway in Brevard County. The river touches on the borders of Osceola and Orange Counties, the upper basin of the St. Johns was significantly lowered in the 1920s with the establishment of the Melbourne Tillman drainage project. This drained the St. Johns headwaters eastward to the Indian River through canals dug across the Ten-Mile Ridge near Palm Bay, as of 2015, these past diversions are being partially reversed through the first phase of the Canal 1 Rediversion project. The river is at its narrowest and most unpredictable in this basin, channel flows are not apparent and are usually unmarked
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The Florida Times-Union
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The Florida Times-Union is a major daily newspaper in Jacksonville, Florida, USA. Widely known as the oldest newspaper in the state, it began publication as the Florida Union in 1864 and its current incarnation started in 1883, when the Florida Union merged with another Jacksonville paper, the Florida Daily Times. A Southeast Georgia edition, called The Georgia Times-Union, serves the Brunswick area, in 1983, Morris Communications of Augusta, Georgia, purchased Florida Publishing Company. The Times-Union became the largest newspaper of this chain, which owns a number of newspapers around the country, as of 2013, its editor is Frank Denton and the editorial page editor is Michael P. Clark. In 1864 during the American Civil War J. K Stickney, morrill published the first edition of the Florida Union. It was a Northern and Republican paper which at the time was when Jacksonville was occupied by the Union Army, by 1867 Stickney sold the Florida Union to Edward M. Cheney of Boston. Cheney unsuccessfully tried to make the paper into a daily publication but was unable to do so. The Florida Union was later sold to Walton, Fowle & Co. in 1873, stockholder C. F. Mawbey assumed control and was able to turn the Florida Union into a daily publication. Cheney returned to the Florida Union as an editor, in 1876 the Florida Union was in decline and abandoned daily publications. Financially doomed it was sold to H. B, McCallum who then returned it to daily publications as well as converting it from an afternoon to a morning paper. Charles H. Jones wanted to buy the Florida Union but was refused by McCallum, Jones became annoyed at McCallum so he decided to start a rival paper called the Florida Daily Times in November 1881. By 1883 the Florida Daily Times was dominating the Florida Union, McCallum became ill and finally decided to sell the paper to the Florida Daily Times. The acquisition of the Florida Union then combined with the Florida Daily Times to form the Florida Times-Union, the first publication under the name of Florida Times-Union was February 4,1883. The Florida Times-Union was previously owned by Florida Publishing Company which was a subsidiary of Seaboard Coast Line Railroad, in 1983 Morris Communications of Augusta, Georgia acquired the Florida Publishing Company. Since 1983 the Florida Times-Union has been owned by Morris Communications, media in Jacksonville, Florida List of newspapers in Florida Official website
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Goal (sport)
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In sports, a goal is a physical structure or area where an attacking team must send the ball or puck in order to score points. In several sports, a goal is the method of scoring. In other sports, a goal may be one of several scoring methods, the structure of a goal varies from sport to sport. Most often, it is a structure that is placed at each end of the playing field. Each structure usually consists of two posts, called goal posts, supporting a horizontal crossbar. A goal line marked on the surface between the goal posts demarcates the goal area. Thus, the objective is to send the ball or puck between the posts, under or over the crossbar, and across the goal line. Less commonly, as in basketball or netball, goals are ring-shaped, the structure is often accompanied with an auxiliary net, which stops or slows down the ball when a goal is scored. In some sports, the goal is the method of scoring. In these sports the final score is expressed as the number of goals scored by each team, in other sports, a goal is the primary, but not the sole method of scoring. In these sports, the goal is worth a set number of points, in these sports, the score is expressed as the number of goals plus the number of alternate scores and the combined total of points with the winner being decided on total points. For example, in Australian rules football the score may be expressed as follows, Brisbane 9.12 In this example Sydney scored 10 goals and 4 behinds for a total of 64 points. Brisbane scored 9 goals and 12 behinds for a total of 66 points, despite having fewer goals, Brisbane won the game. Other sports may use methods of scoring, with the points earned for each type of score varying. In these sports, the object of the game is to score a number of total points than the opponent. Scores are expressed solely as numbers of points, in many games, at each end of the field of play, there are two vertical posts supporting a horizontal crossbar. The vertical supports are usually called goal posts and the top is usually called the crossbar. A goal in these games normally requires that the ball or puck be sent between the posts, under the crossbar and completely behind the goal line, in Australian rules football, there is no crossbar but four uprights instead
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CBS
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CBS is an American commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of CBS Corporation. The company is headquartered at the CBS Building in New York City with major facilities and operations in New York City. CBS is sometimes referred to as the Eye Network, in reference to the iconic logo. It has also called the Tiffany Network, alluding to the perceived high quality of CBS programming during the tenure of William S. Paley. It can also refer to some of CBSs first demonstrations of color television, the network has its origins in United Independent Broadcasters Inc. a collection of 16 radio stations that was purchased by Paley in 1928 and renamed the Columbia Broadcasting System. Under Paleys guidance, CBS would first become one of the largest radio networks in the United States, in 1974, CBS dropped its former full name and became known simply as CBS, Inc. In 2000, CBS came under the control of Viacom, which was formed as a spin-off of CBS in 1971, CBS Corporation is controlled by Sumner Redstone through National Amusements, which also controls the current Viacom. The television network has more than 240 owned-and-operated and affiliated stations throughout the United States. The origins of CBS date back to January 27,1927, Columbia Phonographic went on the air on September 18,1927, with a presentation by the Howard Barlow Orchestra from flagship station WOR in Newark, New Jersey, and fifteen affiliates. Operational costs were steep, particularly the payments to AT&T for use of its land lines, in early 1928 Judson sold the network to brothers Isaac and Leon Levy, owners of the networks Philadelphia affiliate WCAU, and their partner Jerome Louchenheim. With the record out of the picture, Paley quickly streamlined the corporate name to Columbia Broadcasting System. He believed in the power of advertising since his familys La Palina cigars had doubled their sales after young William convinced his elders to advertise on radio. By September 1928, Paley bought out the Louchenheim share of CBS, during Louchenheims brief regime, Columbia paid $410,000 to A. H. Grebes Atlantic Broadcasting Company for a small Brooklyn station, WABC, which would become the networks flagship station. WABC was quickly upgraded, and the relocated to 860 kHz. The physical plant was relocated also – to Steinway Hall on West 57th Street in Manhattan, by the turn of 1929, the network could boast to sponsors of having 47 affiliates. Paley moved right away to put his network on a financial footing. In the fall of 1928, he entered talks with Adolph Zukor of Paramount Pictures. The deal came to fruition in September 1929, Paramount acquired 49% of CBS in return for a block of its stock worth $3.8 million at the time
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Carlos Alvarez (American football)
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Alvarez was born in Cuba in 1950, the youngest of Licinio and Isola Alvarezs three sons. Alvarezs father Licinio had been a lawyer in Cuba, but his parents fled to the United States to escape Fidel Castros communist revolution in 1960. He was raised in Miami, Florida and attended North Miami Senior High School in North Miami, Florida, Alvarez was the Pioneers star halfback who could run and catch, and was touted by the local newspapers as the best back in Dade County—on offense and defense. On at least two occasions, he played all forty-eight minutes of a school game, playing on both offense and defense. Alvarez graduated from North Miami High School in 1968, during Graves final season as Floridas head coach in 1969, Alvarez was one of several talented second-year Gators known as the Super Sophs who led the team to its then all-time best record of 9–1–1. Alvarez was known for his speed on the field. He was also the Gators leading receiver in 1970 and 1971, Alvarez was also a first-team Academic All-American in 1969 and a second-team Academic All-American in 1970 and 1971, and was chosen for the Academic All-American Hall of Fame in 1991. His 133 yards per-game average in 1969 is still the all-time single-season best among Gators, Alvarez ranks second among Gators receivers with thirteen games for 100 yards or more receiving, one behind career leader Jabar Gaffney. He ranks first among Gators for most 100-yard receiving games in a season, also tied with Gaffney and Travis McGriff, Alvarez achieved this in 1969 when six of those 100-yard games were achieved consecutively—also a team record he shares with two other Gators. Alvarez graduated from the University of Florida with a degree in political science, with honors. The Dallas Cowboys selected him in the round of the 1972 NFL Draft. He received an NCAA Post-Graduate Scholarship Award to attend the Duke University School of Law in Durham, North Carolina, and earned his juris doctor degree summa cum laude in 1975. After graduation, he worked as a law professor at the Southern Methodist University School of Law in Dallas, Texas, following in the family legal tradition of his father and older brothers, Alvarez became a practicing attorney. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Alvarez is an environmental and land use attorney based in Tallahassee, Florida, but his current practice emphasizes mediation, arbitration and alternative dispute resolution. Alvarez was inducted into the University of Florida Athletic Hall of Fame as a Gator Great in 1986, and elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 2011. In one of a series of written in 2006, The Gainesville Sun recognized him as No.7 among the top 100 all-time Gators football players from the first 100 years of the team. An Oral History of Floridas Pursuit of Gridiron Glory, Legends Publishing, LLC, St. Petersburg, hairston, Jack, Tales from the Gator Swamp, A Collection of the Greatest Gator Stories Ever Told, Sports Publishing, LLC, Champaign, Illinois. McCarthy, Kevin M. Fightin Gators, A History of University of Florida Football, Arcadia Publishing, Mount Pleasant, mcEwen, Tom, The Gators, A Story of Florida Football, The Strode Publishers, Huntsville, Alabama
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Kevin Carter (American football)
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Kevin Louis Carter is an American former college and professional football player who was a defensive end in the National Football League for fourteen seasons in the 1990s and 2000s. Carter played college football for the University of Florida, and received All-American honors, a first-round pick in the 1995 NFL Draft, he played professionally for the St. Louis Rams, Tennessee Titans, Miami Dolphins, and Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the NFL. Carter was born in Miami, Florida and he attended Lincoln High School in Tallahassee, Florida, and was a letterman for the Lincoln Trojans high school football and basketball teams. In football, he was a Parade magazine high school All-American, Carter was a saxophone player in the marching band until he started his first season of football as a junior. He was a member of the schools Crime and Drug Prevention Task Force and was named Student-Athlete of the Year as a senior, during his four seasons as a Gator, the team won three Southeastern Conference championships. In his freshman season, Carter played in games and started two, and tallied fourteen tackles.5 sacks, and six tackles for a loss. As a junior in 1993, he made fifty-nine tackles,6.5 sacks, twelve pressures and blocked a field goal, as a senior in 1994, Carter was a first-team All-SEC selection and a consensus first-team All-American. Football News named him one of five finalists for its 1994 Defensive Player of the Year Award and his 42.5 career tackles for a loss and 21.5 quarterback sacks ranked seventh and fifth, respectively, in Gators history. Carters 11.5 sacks in 1994 were then the third-best seasonal total in school history and he started thirty-eight of his last thirty-nine games at defensive end. Carter served as president of the University of Florida chapter of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, in 2000, Carter was voted to the Florida Gator All-Century Team and in 2006 he was voted to the University of Florida Gator 100th Anniversary Team. Carter was inducted into the University of Florida Athletic Hall of Fame as a Gator Great in 2004, at the University of Florida Pro Day, Carter ran a 4.66 40-yard dash at 274 pounds while recording a vertical jump of 36½ inches. The St. Louis Rams selected Carter in the first round of the 1995 NFL Draft, and he signed a contract with the Rams for a reported $10 million over six years. During his rookie year with the Rams, Carter ranked second on the team and second among rookies with six sacks, while posting 50 tackles and he was named the Rams Rookie of the Year. He recorded his first career sack when he dropped Brett Favre for a 10-yard loss in Green Bay and he tallied first career safety when he sacked New York Jets quarterback Boomer Esiason in end zone. In 1998, Carter led the team in sacks with twelve and tied for sixth in the NFC and he was also a Pro Bowl alternate. These efforts earned him a spot on the 1999 Pro Bowl team and he also became the first defensive end to represent the Rams at Pro Bowl since Youngblood in 1979. Carter was a consensus All-Pro selection in 1999, in addition to being named to the All-Madden, the 1999 Rams defense, anchored by Carter at left defensive end, had the No. 1-ranked rushing defense in the NFL and led the NFL in quarterback sacks with fifty-seven, Carter was recognized as the NFC Defensive Player of the Month and earned NFC Defensive Player of the Week honors in Week Eight versus the Carolina Panthers
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Rick Casares
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Casares played college football for the University of Florida, where he was standout fullback and kicker. Casares played professionally for the Chicago Bears and Washington Redskins of the NFL, rick Casares was born in Tampa, Florida in 1931. When he was 7 years old, his father was killed in a shooting, his mother sent him to live with an aunt and uncle in Paterson. At 15, Casares became a Golden Gloves boxing champion in the 160-pound division, when he was offered a professional boxing contract, his mother refused to permit it, and he returned to Tampa. The Jefferson coaches discovered the 190-pound, six-foot-one-inch freshman when he picked up a javelin for the first time, Casares played high school football, basketball, and baseball for the Jefferson Dragons, and he was also a track and field athlete. He was a football and basketball player, and the Dragons won the city football championship in 1948 and 1949. The Tampa Tribune recognized Casares as one the Tampa Bay areas 100 greatest athletes of the century in 1999. Casares quickly became the star rusher of the Gators backfield, in 1953, he was a team captain. Woodruff ranked Casares as the Gators best back and one of their three best kickers of the 1950s, in basketball, he was a third-team All-SEC selection in 1952, as basketball team captain in 1953, he received second-team All-SEC honors. Casares college career was cut short when he was drafted into the U. S. Army after his junior year and he was later inducted into the University of Florida Athletic Hall of Fame as a Gator Great. As part of a series for The Gainesville Sun in 2006. Casares was selected in the round of the 1954 NFL Draft by the Chicago Bears. Instead, he accepted owner George Halass $10,000 offer to become a member of the Chicago Bears, in the fourth game of the 1955 season, against the Baltimore Colts, he ran for an 81-yard touchdown. He finished his season with 672 yards in 12 games. Casares led Chicago in rushing from 1955 through 1960, in 1956, Casares led the NFL in rushing with 235 carries for 1,126 yards. At the time, this was the second most yards gained in a season in the NFL. Behind Casares hard-nosed rushing, the Bears advanced to the 1956 NFL Championship Game, however, the Bears championship game opponents, the New York Giants, completely stifled Casares and crushed the Bears, 47–7. He would, however, win an NFL Championship as a member of the 1963 squad, during the following 1957 season, Casares again led the NFL with 204 rushing attempts, but his 700 yards was later eclipsed by Jim Browns 942 yards on two fewer carries
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Doug Dickey
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Douglas Adair Dickey is an American former college football player and coach and college athletics administrator. Dickey is a South Dakota native who was raised in Florida and graduated from the University of Florida, where he played college football. He is best known as the coach of the University of Tennessee and the University of Florida football teams. Dickey was born in Vermillion, South Dakota in 1932, and grew up in Gainesville, Florida, yonge High School in Gainesville, he attended the University of Florida and played for coach Bob Woodruffs Florida Gators football team from 1951 to 1953. Dickey was a walk-on after being encouraged by assistant coach Dave Fuller, as a quarterback Dickey was not a drop-back passer, but a football-savvy game manager, who Woodruff called one of the brainiest quarterbacks I ever saw. In January 1953, Dickey led the Gators to a 14–13 win over the University of Tulsa in the Gator Bowl, while a student at Florida, he was a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity. He graduated with a degree in physical education in 1954. After graduating from the University of Florida, Dickey served in the U. S. Army, from 1957 to 1963, he worked as an assistant football coach on the staff of Frank Broyles at the University of Arkansas. Dickey was hired as coach at the University of Tennessee in 1964 by athletic director Bob Woodruff. Many supporters of Tennessee Volunteers football credit Dickey with rejuvenating the program, when Dickey was hired the Volunteers had not won more than six games in a season, nor been to a bowl game, since 1957. Dickey was recognized as Southeastern Conference Coach of the Year in 1965 and 1967, in his six seasons as head coach, his overall win-loss record at Tennessee was 46–15–4, and the Volunteers received five consecutive bowl invitations. Dickey is credited with starting three Tennessee football traditions that endure today, undeterred, Dickey recruited wide receiver Lester McClain, who was admitted and became the first black Volunteer football player. In 1969, the Volunteers clinched their second SEC championship and were invited to play Florida in the Gator Bowl, rumors swirled that Dickey was planning to return to his alma mater to replace retiring Ray Graves as head coach. Tennessee lost the game 14–13, and Dickey left for Gainesville, Dickey became the head football coach at the University of Florida in 1970. In his nine seasons as the Florida coach, Dickey led the Gators to four appearances. Notably, Dickey gave the Gators former Heisman-winning quarterback Steve Spurrier his first coaching job, as the Gators quarterbacks coach, in 1978. Dickey did not achieve the level of success at Florida that he had at Tennessee. Dickey ended his coaching career with an overall record of 104–58–6
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Larry Dupree
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Lawrence Wallace Dupree was an American college football player. He played at the halfback and fullback positions for the Florida Gators football team of the University of Florida, in 1964, he became the first Florida Gators running back to be selected as a first-team All-American. He was also the first Florida player to receive first-team All-SEC honors in three seasons, Dupree was born in 1943 to Wallace and Dorothy Thrift Dupree. He graduated from Baker County High School in Glen St. Mary, Dupree enrolled at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, where he played at the halfback and fullback positions for coach Ray Gravess Florida Gators football team from 1962 to 1964. In 1962, he established himself as a star by gaining 111 yards, for the 1962 season, he gained 604 yards on 113 carried, scored seven touchdowns, and was the only sophomore to be named to the All-SEC team. He was also named Playboy magazines All-America team in 1962, as a junior in 1963, Duprees wife delivered the couples first child stillborn two days before the Georgia game. After staying up all night, Dupree received an escort on game day. He gained 74 rushing yards and 34 receiving yards to lead the Gators to a 21-14 victory over Georgia, after his senior year, he was selected by the American Football Coaches Association as a first-team player on its 1964 College Football All-America Team. In April 1965, his town of Macclenny, Florida, held a parade. In brief comments to the crowd, Dupree called it the greatest day of my life, expressed thanks to coach Graves, Dupree was the first Florida running back to receive first-team All-America honors. He was also the first Florida player to receive first-team All-Southeastern Conference honors three times. In a series of written by the sports editors of The Gainesville Sun in 2006. After graduating from the University of Florida, Dupree returned to Baker County, Florida, for many years, he was the manager of an Oldsmobile car dealership in Jacksonville. Dupree was inducted into the University of Florida Athletic Hall of Fame as a Gator Great in 1968, in 2014, after being diagnosed with lung cancer, Dupree died of a heart attack at Ed Fraser Memorial Hospital in Macclenny. 1964 College Football All-America Team Florida Gators football, 1960–69 List of Florida Gators football All-Americans
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Jeremy Foley
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Jeremy N. Foley is an American university sports administrator and former college athlete. Foley was born in Washington, D. C. in 1952 and he graduated from the Holderness School in New Hampshire in 1970. He attended Hobart College in Geneva, New York, where he played football and lacrosse, in 1976, he completed a masters degree in sports administration from Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. When his internship ended, Foley was hired as an employee and was soon promoted to ticket manager. Two years later he was named director of ticket and game operations, after just one additional year, he became an assistant athletic director and spent the next twelve years learning every facet of Gators athletics. From 1981 to 1986, Foley was the athletic director for business affairs. Bill Carr was appointed Floridas athletic director in 1979 at age 33, when Carr left in 1986, Jeremy Foley was named the interim athletic director. The athletic director search committee selected an older, more experienced candidate when it recommended the hiring of Bill Arnsparger in 1987, Foley was disappointed not to have been selected, but accepted the position of senior associate athletic director. Arnsparger resigned in 1992, and at age 39, Foley was named the Florida athletic director, the sports program has finished as the top-ranked overall program in the Southeastern Conference in all but one year under his tenure. University of Florida President Bernie Machen said Jeremys contract is what you would expect for the best athletic director in the nation, Jeremy Foleys tenure as Floridas athletic director has generally been considered successful by Gator alumni and supporters. He is most notably credited for his hiring of Meyer and Donovan who have won championships at Florida in the two most popular intercollegiate sports. Foleys successful hires also include Becky Burleigh and, more recently, though he demonstrates a fierce loyalty to coaches who bring success to Florida, Foley also proved willing to remove unsuccessful coaches when he became convinced a change was necessary. Foley personally attends many athletic competitions for all sports on campus, one of Foleys responsibilities as Florida athletic director is to act as chief financial officer for the University Athletic Association. Jeremy Foley manages a budget of more than $89 million. The national average for student-athlete graduation is around 76 percent, he said, at UF,92 percent of student-athletes graduate. Foley is an ardent runner who has competed in the Boston Marathon, in addition to being a member of the UAA board of directors, Foley also serves on the board of directors for Gator Boosters, Inc. In 1995, Foley was the recipient of the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Sports Administration, the UF Alumni Association Board of Directors named Foley an Honorary Alumnus in October 2000. From 1997-2002, Foley served on the NCAA Division I Management Council, in June 2006, Street & Smith named Foley as its SportsBusiness Journal National Athletics Director of the Year
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Jabar Gaffney
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Derrick Jabar Gaffney is an American former college and professional football player who was a wide receiver in the National Football League for eleven seasons. He played college football for the University of Florida, and was recognized as a consensus All-American. He was drafted by the Houston Texans in the round of the 2002 NFL Draft. Gaffney was born in San Antonio, Texas and he attended William M. Raines High School in Jacksonville, Florida, and was a letterman for the Raines Vikings high school football team. In football, he was a starter as a wide receiver. Gaffney accepted a scholarship to attend the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida. The Gators coaching staff decided to redshirt him as freshman in 1999. Gaffney amassed 1,184 receiving yards and fourteen touchdown receptions in 2000, in 2001, he was one of the three finalists for the Biletnikoff Award, recognizing the best receiver in college football. He finished his college career with 138 receptions for 2,375 yards and twenty-seven touchdowns. He remains the only receiver in Gators history with two seasons of 1,000 yards or more, after Steve Spurrier kicked him off the team in December 1999, he was eventually allowed to earn his way back onto the squad but forfeited his scholarship for a year. During the 2001 season, Gaffney and another athlete forcefully detained a 15-year-old boy who was stealing motor scooters from their apartment, the boys mother later alleged that Gaffney beat, kicked, choked and attempted to drown her son. The police declined to file charges and the state agreed, stating the mothers allegations were inconsistent with the evidence. Gaffney was selected with the 1st pick in the 2nd round of the 2002 NFL Draft by the Houston Texans and his tenure with the team was marred by his often inconsistent play which led to his benching in favor of veteran receivers, in particular Corey Bradford. After his rookie contract was up the Texans chose not to him after he put up less-than stellar stats. On March 16,2006, the Eagles signed Gaffney to a one-year contract, Gaffney signed a two-year deal with the New England Patriots on October 9,2006. 2007 was his first solid season, on March 5,2008, Gaffney re-signed with the Patriots for one year worth $2 million. Jabar Gaffney finished the 2008 season with 44 receptions for 468 yards and his longest reception was 37 yards. His best game came against the Cardinals in week 16, when he had 90 yards receiving, on February 27,2009, Gaffney signed a four-year, $10 million contract with the Denver Broncos
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Ray Graves
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Samuel Ray Graves was an American college and professional football player and college football coach. He was a native of Tennessee and a graduate of the University of Tennessee, Graves was best known as the head coach of the Florida Gators football team of the University of Florida, and served twenty years as the athletic director of the university. Graves was born in Knoxville, Tennessee on December 31,1918 and he was the son of a Methodist minister, and he realized that his best opportunity to attend college would be to earn an athletic scholarship. Tennessee Wesleyan College, a small Methodist-affiliated college located in Athens, Tennessee, recognized his athletic talent, coach Robert Neyland of the University of Tennessee recognized his stand-out play and arranged for Graves to transfer to Tennessee. He would have been accepted only in a grave emergency, Graves married Opal Richardson on November 3,1942, and they had three daughters together. Graves played college football for one year at Tennessee Wesleyan College and he replaced Norbert Ackerman as the starting center in 1941. During his time as a Volunteer, he played in the Sugar Bowl following his junior season, the All-SEC Bob Gude played across from Graves at rival Vanderbilt. The Steagles were formed when the National Football League had to limit rosters, in three NFL seasons, Graves played in 28 games, starting in 15 of them. Graves was retained as a coach at the University of Tennessee in 1943. Graves was hired as an assistant coach for the Volunteers in 1944, following his playing career, Graves was the defensive coach at Georgia Tech under head coach Bobby Dodd. Graves is widely credited with creating what was known as the monster defense—the modern alignment of the free safety. In 1960 Graves was hired as football coach of the University of Florida. He served as the Gators head coach for ten years from 1960 to 1969, among the many highlights of the Graves era was the 1963 Gators 10–6 upset victory over coach Bear Bryants 1963 Alabama Crimson Tide in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. In one of the more interesting footnotes to his football legacy and he told his friend, Kansas City Chiefs head coach Hank Stram of the drinks effectiveness, a move that eventually led to Gatorade becoming the official sports drink of the NFL. Graves saved the best for last and his 1969 Gators posted a 9–1–1 record, upset the Tennessee Volunteers, 14–13, in the Gator Bowl, and were ranked fourteenth in the final AP Poll. Graves remained the winningest coach in Gators football history until his former quarterback, Steve Spurrier, Graves Gators are remembered for their remarkable academic success as much as their athletic success. Ninety-three percent of his players graduated, and more than half of the graduates ultimately earned law or medical degrees. Graves Silver Sixties Gators remain a group, and held an annual reunion with their coach every year from 1970 to 2014
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Rex Grossman
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Rex Daniel Grossman III is a former American football quarterback who played in the National Football League for 12 seasons. Grossman played college football for the University of Florida, as a college quarterback, Grossman led the Florida Gators to the 2000 Southeastern Conference championship, the 2001 Sugar Bowl, the 2002 Orange Bowl and the 2003 Outback Bowl. He was a consensus first-team All-American and was the runner-up for the Heisman Trophy in 2001, Grossman spent most of his first three NFL seasons with the Chicago Bears sidelined with injuries. He completed his first full NFL season in 2006, leading the Bears to a National Football Conference Championship and he lost his starting job three weeks into the 2007 season, and primarily served as the teams backup quarterback afterward. He was also a quarterback for the Cleveland Browns and Atlanta Falcons in 2014 and 2015. Grossman was born in Bloomington, Indiana in 1980, the son of Rex Daniel Grossman II, under the motivation and guidance of his father, he began playing football at an early age in grade school. He originally started his career as a running back. Despite his success running the ball, his mother asked his coach to convert him to a quarterback while he was in the sixth grade, Grossman attended Bloomington High School South, where he played high school football for the Bloomington South Panthers. In three seasons as the Panthers quarterback, he threw for 7518 yards and 97 touchdowns and he threw for 3,080 yards and forty-four touchdowns as a senior in 1998, including a game where he threw six touchdowns. His senior season reached its climax when he led the Panthers to a 35–14 victory over the Homestead High School Spartans in the Indiana Class 5A state championship game. Grossman completed seventeen of twenty-six pass attempts for 216 yards and five touchdowns and he received statewide honors when he was named Indianas Mr. Football later that year. Bloomington High School South retired his jersey in the summer of 2007 to commemorate his success during the Chicago Bears 2006 season. After redshirting his freshman year in 1999, Grossman competed for playing time with returning starter Jesse Palmer and he led the Gators to the SEC championship and was named Most Valuable Player of the SEC Championship Game. For the season, Grossman completed 61.8 percent of his passes for 1,866 yards,21 touchdowns and his passer efficiency rating of 161.8 was the third best in NCAA Division I football. Grossman passed for over 300 yards in nine games during his sophomore season in 2001. He led the nation in passing efficiency, passing completion percentage, at the time, his 55 touchdown passes through his sophomore season were the most in NCAA history. On October 6,2001, Grossman passed for 464 yards, in a 2006 interview with the Chicago Tribune, Grossman cited the victory as his most memorable game as a Gator. He finished second to University of Nebraska quarterback Eric Crouch in one of the closest votes in Heisman Trophy history and he ended his sophomore season with a 56–23 victory over the Maryland Terrapins in the 2002 Orange Bowl
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Galen Hall
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Galen Samuel Hall is a retired American college and professional football coach and player. He is a native of Pennsylvania, and an alumnus of Penn State University and he most recently served as the offensive coordinator at his alma mater, Penn State. Hall was born in Altoona, Pennsylvania in 1940 and grew up in Williamsburg and he was raised by his grandparents, following the death of his father several months before he was born. He attended Penn State University in State College, Pennsylvania, where he was the quarterback for coach Rip Engles Nittany Lions in 1960 and 1961. He led the Nittany Lions to a combined 15–6 record and victories in the 1960 Liberty Bowl and 1961 Gator Bowl, Hall was also a member of Delta Upsilon fraternity while a Penn State student. Hall had a stint as quarterback in the National Football League in 1962. Afterward, he played for the New York Jets of the American Football League in 1963, Hall appeared in thirteen games that season, completing 45 of 118 pass attempts, including his only start, a 48–0 loss late in the season against the Kansas City Chiefs. After a disappointing season in 1983, Oklahoma replaced many assistant coaches while retaining head coach Barry Switzer, Hall was let go, but was quickly hired to be the new offensive coordinator for the Florida Gators to replace Mike Shanahan, who had left Florida for the NFL. Hall installed a conventional I formation offense at Florida under head coach Charley Pell for the 1984 season, however, between the third and fourth games, Pell was fired after an NCAA investigation alleged 107 violations of NCAA rules. Hall, who had not been at Florida when the violations occurred between 1979 and 1983, was made the head coach by athletic director Bill Carr. The Gators won the eight games on their schedule under Hall, including big wins over arch-rivals Georgia, Auburn, and Florida State. By virtue of an undefeated 5–0–1 conference record, Florida won its first-ever Southeastern Conference football championship, the team finished the season ranked No.3 in the AP poll, the teams highest ever ranking up to that time. However, the SEC refused to allow the Gators to play in the Sugar Bowl, two weeks after the end of the season, the NCAA slapped the Gators with two years probation and banned them from bowl games and live television in 1985 and 1986. The most damaging sanction in the run, however, was a limit of 20 new scholarships in 1985 and 1986. Nonetheless, the Gators were crowned champions by several minor polls. Hall was named the Associated Press Coach of the Year and university president Marshall Criser named him the permanent head coach at the end of the season, the decision drew much anger from Criser and Gator players and fans due to its retroactive nature. The 1984 and 1985 seasons are remembered as Best in the SEC years for Florida football, Halls first two recruiting classes only had 25 players. His teams typically featured strong defense and a rushing attack
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Chuck Hunsinger
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Charles Ray Hunsinger was an American college and professional football player who was a running back in the National Football League and the Canadian Football League for six seasons during the 1950s. Hunsinger played college football for the University of Florida, and thereafter, he played professionally for the Chicago Bears of the NFL, Hunsinger was born in Harrisburg, Illinois in 1925. He attended Harrisburg High School, and played for the Harrisburg Bulldogs high school football team, Hunsinger attended the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, where he was a running back for coach Bear Wolfs Florida Gators football team from 1946 to 1949. He rushed for 2,017 yards in his college career, Hunsinger was popular with the Florida student body, and the Humdinger Song was written by a pair of Alabama sports writers and sung by students. Hunsinger had two outstanding games in 1949, rushing for 199 yards versus the Furman Hurricanes and 174 yards and he was a first-team All-Southeastern Conference selection in 1948 and 1949. Hunsinger graduated from the Florida with a degree in 1950. The Chicago Bears selected Hunsinger in the first round of the 1950 NFL Draft and he played thirty-four games in all, rushing for 834 yards and catching twenty-three passes. Hunsinger also returned punts and kickoffs, and was the kick returner in the league in 1950. Hunsinger also played three years with the Montreal Alouettes of the CFL and he compiled his best CFL season statistically in 1954, when he rushed eighty-six times for 516 yards and six touchdowns, and caught twenty-two passes for 421 yards and two more touchdowns. He is most remembered, however, for one play in 1954s 42nd Grey Cup and his Alouettes were leading by five points in the final minutes of the game, and were threatening to add to the lead with the ball on the Edmonton Eskimos ten yard-line. In a 1968 interview with The Toronto Star, Hunsinger recalled, I was right back and their right tackle broke through and I saw I wasnt going anywhere, so I decided to pass. Just as I was about to throw, someone hit me from behind—not hard, somebody was lying across my legs and I was sick when I looked up to see Jackie Parker taking off down the field. Canadian Football Hall of Fame great Parker returned the ball a record ninety yards to score the game-winning touchdown and it was one of the greatest plays in Grey Cup history. Hunsinger recounted picking up his wife at Torontos Royal York Hotel after the game and he also recalled the elation of arriving at his home to find an 800-foot-long Cheer up, Chuck telegram with the signatures of 21,947 Montreal Alouettes fans. An Oral History of Floridas Pursuit of Gridiron Glory, Legends Publishing, LLC, St. Petersburg, hairston, Jack, Tales from the Gator Swamp, A Collection of the Greatest Gator Stories Ever Told, Sports Publishing, LLC, Champaign, Illinois. McCarthy, Kevin M. Fightin Gators, A History of University of Florida Football, Arcadia Publishing, Mount Pleasant, mcEwen, Tom, The Gators, A Story of Florida Football, The Strode Publishers, Huntsville, Alabama. The Gainesville Sun Presents The Greatest Moments in Florida Gators Football, Sports Publishing, Inc
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Lindy Infante
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Infante was born in Miami, Florida in 1940. He attended Miami Senior High School, where he played school football and was the star fullback for the Miami Stingarees. Infante accepted a scholarship to attend the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida. He was also a member of Sigma Nu fraternity while he was an undergraduate, during his undergraduate playing days, he also suffered two severe injuries, a ruptured lung against the LSU Tigers in 1960, and a season-ending broken leg against LSU in 1962. He went on to serve as the coordinator at Memphis State from 1972 to 1974. Infante was the coordinator of the Cincinnati Bengals in the early 1980s under Forrest Gregg. His offense, quarterbacked by Ken Anderson, led the Bengals to the 1981 AFC title, Infante served as the Bulls head coach during their two spring football seasons in 1984 and 1985. After the USFL folded following its second and last season, he became the coordinator of the Bernie Kosar-quarterbacked Cleveland Browns during the 1986 and 1987 NFL fall seasons. Under Infante, the 1987 Browns were the second-highest-scoring offense in the AFC, in 1988, Infante became an NFL head coach for the first time, leaving Cleveland to replace Forrest Gregg as head coach of the Green Bay Packers. That first season, the Packers endured losing streaks of five and seven games, for his efforts, Infante was named the 1989 AP NFL Coach of the Year. In 1990, the Packers started 6–5, only to lose their final five games and finish 6–10 and that five-game losing streak continued into 1991, when the Packers lost six of their first seven games, and finished 4–12. A 27–7 season-ending victory over the Vikings notwithstanding, Infante was fired by the Packers new general manager, Ron Wolf and he was succeeded by Mike Holmgren, then the offensive coordinator of the San Francisco 49ers. A second opportunity to be a coach in the NFL came in 1996, when Infante replaced the retired Ted Marchibroda as head coach of the Indianapolis Colts. The season opened with success, as the Colts started 5–1. Although they qualified for the playoffs as a wild card team, although the Colts led 14–13 at the half, a second half collapse allowed the Steelers to claim a 42–14 victory. It was Infantes only NFL playoff game, Indianapolis lost their first ten games of the 1997 season, Infante was fired shortly after the seasons end. As an NFL head coach, Infante compiled a record of 36–60–0. After his retirement, Infante lived in Crescent Beach, Florida with his wife Stephanie and he died in St. Augustine, Florida on October 8,2015, aged 75
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Jevon Kearse
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Jevon Kearse, nicknamed The Freak, is an American former football player who was a defensive end in the National Football League for eleven seasons during the late 1990s and 2000s. Kearse played college football for the University of Florida, and received All-American honors, a first-round pick in the 1999 NFL Draft, he played professionally for the Tennessee Titans and Philadelphia Eagles of the NFL. Kearse played for the Eagles for four seasons between his two stints with the Titans, during his first five years with the Titans, he was a three-time Pro Bowl selection and AP NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year in 1999. Both his unusual speed of 4.43 forty and 86-inch wingspan, coupled with a 48-inch vertical leap greatly impressed coaches, Kearse was born in Fort Myers, Florida in 1976, the son of Joseph Kearse and Lessie Mae Kearse. He attended North Fort Myers High School in North Fort Myers and he was over six feet tall and extremely agile, and added muscle without a loss of speed and agility. Kearse began attracting college recruiters under his coach Wade Hummel and he played strong safety and tight end, and in his first season in high school, he returned four kicks for touchdowns. Following Kearses senior season in 1994, he was honored as a prep All-American by USA Today, in addition to his demonstrated athletic ability on the playing field, he carried a 3.6 grade point average and was a member in the National Honor Society. Starting college at 6 feet,4 inches tall, and 215 pounds and he accepted an athletic scholarship to attend the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, where he played for coach Steve Spurriers Florida Gators football team from 1995 to 1998. He began his career at safety before shifting to outside linebacker in 1996. Later in his career, he would occasionally line up at defensive end during obvious passing situations to intensify the Gators pass rush. The Gators coaches red-shirted Kearse for the 1995 season, and he watched the Gators run for the 1995 national championship game from the sidelines and he was nicknamed the Freak by Southeastern Conference opponents during the Gators 1996 season. In his debut game against Southwest Louisiana, he accounted for six solo tackles, the Florida Gators would go on to win the national title, defeating Florida State Seminoles 52–20 in the 1997 Sugar Bowl. For his on-field accomplishments, Kearse was named to the All-SEC Freshman team, in a tragic counterpoint, his younger brother Jermaine was killed in a drive-by-shooting following the season. Kearse made the All-SEC team in 1997 for the first time by registering a team high 6.5 sacks during the season as well as 38 tackles. In his 1998 campaign, he again led the team with 7.5 sacks. During his college career, Kearse made 34.5 tackles for a loss and he also compiled 145 total tackles,16.5 quarterback sacks, six forced fumbles, one interception, one recovered fumble, and 19 pass deflections. In an article written for The Gainesville Sun in 2006. Kearse, at 262 pounds, ran a 4.58 second 40-yard dash,4.24 second 20-yard shuttle and had a jump of 37 inches at the 1999 NFL Combine
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Charlie LaPradd
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Charles W. LaPradd was an American football player during the early 1950s. He played college football for the University of Florida and was recognized as an All-American as a defensive lineman and he later served as the president of St. Johns River Community College in northeast Florida. LaPradd was born and raised in St. Augustine, Florida, in a family of nine children and modest means. He attended Ketterlinus High School in St. Augustine, where he lettered in football, baseball and basketball, after serving in the U. S. Army paratroops, he returned to Ketterlinus to finish his remaining high school diploma requirements. LaPradd attended the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, where he played for coach Bob Woodruffs Florida Gators football team from 1950 to 1952 and he had hitch-hiked to Gainesville for a chance to try out for the Florida Gators football team. He initially played for the Gators as a freshman walk-on in 1949, after convincing the coaches to permit him to try out for the squad and he was a third-team All-Southeastern Conference selection as a sophomore in 1950, and a second-team All-SEC pick following his junior season in 1951. He was married and had an infant son during his senior year, at six feet, three inches tall and 215 pounds, he was the lightest tackle on the team as a senior in 1952. Nevertheless, he was described by his teammates as a man among boys, stronger and he was one of two senior team captains and the defensive leader of the Gators. The Gators 1952 season was a season of firsts for the team, afterward, the team received its first-ever NCAA-sanctioned invitation to a bowl game, the 1953 Gator Bowl, in which the Gators defeated the Tulsa Golden Hurricane 14–13 on January 1,1953. The Gators finished their season 8–3, their first eight-win season since 1928, following the season, LaPradd was a first-team All-SEC selection and received first-team All-American honors from the Associated Press and the New York Daily News. He was the Gators only All-America first team member since Dale Van Sickel in 1928, coach Woodruff would later recall LaPradd, the former walk-on who had to plead for a chance to try out for the team, as the Gators greatest lineman of the 1950s. He graduated from the University of Florida with a degree in physical education in 1953. Afterward, he served as an assistant coach for the Seminoles for four seasons from 1957 to 1961, and he later served as the president of the three-campus St. Johns River Community College in Orange Park, Palatka and St. Augustine from 1966 to 1972. After resigning from SJRCC in 1972, he went into private business, LaPradd was a Gator Great member of the University of Florida Athletic Hall of Fame, and was inducted into the Florida-Georgia Hall of Fame in 1998. In 2006, The Gainesville Sun ranked LaPradd twenty-first on its all-time list of the 100 greatest Florida Gators football players from the teams first 100 years of play, LaPradd died February 1,2006, he was 78 years old. He was survived by his son and daughter, after his death, friends, teammates and admirers endowed the Dr. Charles W. LaPradd Ph. D. Fellowship Fund at the University of Florida for the benefit of doctoral candidates in the universitys College of Health, an Oral History of Floridas Pursuit of Gridiron Glory, Legends Publishing, LLC, St. Petersburg, Florida. Hairston, Jack, Tales from the Gator Swamp, A Collection of the Greatest Gator Stories Ever Told, Sports Publishing, LLC, Champaign, mcCarthy, Kevin M. Fightin Gators, A History of University of Florida Football, Arcadia Publishing, Mount Pleasant, South Carolina
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