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Faurot Field
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Faurot Field /fɔːˈroʊ/, /fəˈroʊ/ at Memorial Stadium is a stadium in Columbia, Missouri, United States, on the campus of the University of Missouri. It is primarily used for football and serves as the field for the Missouri Tigers football program. In 1972, Memorial Stadiums playing surface was named Faurot Field in honor of longtime coach Don Faurot, during the offseason, soccer goals are set up in the end zones and it is used for intramural matches. This tradition stopped when Missouri joined the Southeastern Conference and conference scheduling made hosting the more difficult. Faurot Field was also home to the Missouri State High School Activities Association football championships for many years. It is the second-largest sports facility by seating capacity in the state of Missouri, the stadium is an early 20th century horseshoe-shaped stadium, with seating added on in the open end zone. The original horseshoe is completed by a berm in the curved end. The berm is famous for the giant block M made of painted white stones located behind the end zone, a paved path encircles the west, north and east sides of the field taking the place of the track, removed in 1994. Fundraising began in 1921 for a Memorial Union and a Memorial Stadium to be constructed at the University, the names of the two projects were a tribute to Mizzou alumni who lost their lives during World War I. Ground was broken on the site of the stadium in December 1925. The site was a natural valley that lay between twin bluffs south of the campus. Original plans called for the stadium to seat 25,000, according to legend, a rock crusher and truck were buried during initial blasting, which still remain buried under the field. Memorial Stadium was dedicated on October 2,1926, to the memory of 112 alumni, the 25, 000-seat stadium—the lower half of the current facility—was built with a 440-yard track that circled the playing field. That first October game against Tulane was marred by rainstorms that washed out a bridge into Columbia coming from the side of Missouri. While the game out, the field could not be sodded due to the wet conditions. Therefore, a surface of sawdust and tree bark was used, grass would be installed thenafter until the 1980s. The highly recognizable rock M of the end zone debuted on October 1,1927. The monument was built by members of the class using leftover rocks from the original stadium construction
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FieldTurf
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FieldTurf is a brand of artificial turf playing surface. It is manufactured and installed by FieldTurf Tarkett, a division of French company Tarkett Inc. headquartered in Calhoun, Georgia, in the late 1990s, the artificial surface changed the industry with a design intended to replicate real grass. The new system quickly began taking market share from AstroTurf, and is now the leader in the industry, the surface is composed of monofilament polyethylene blend fibers tufted into a polypropylene backing. The infill is composed of a layer of silica sand, a middle layer which is a mixture of sand and cryogenic rubber. The fibers are meant to replicate blades of grass, while the acts as a cushion. This cushion is intended to improve safety when compared to earlier artificial surfaces and allows players to plant, each square foot of turf contains approximately 3 kg of sand and 1.5 kg of cryogenic rubber. FieldTurf does not use shock absorbency pads below its infill, the backing of the turf is a combination of woven and non-woven polypropylene. These materials are permeable and allow water to drain through the backing itself, jean Prévost bought the patent of the FieldTurf product in 1988 and originally named his Montreal-based company SynTenni Co. a name which would eventually be dropped in favor of FieldTurf Inc. In 1995, John Gilman, a former Canadian Football League player and coach, in 1997, FieldTurf made its first major installation for a professional team, at the training facility for the English Premierships Middlesbrough F. C. As of 2012, FieldTurf has installed over 7000 athletic fields, in 2005, French flooring manufacturer and minority shareholder Tarkett increased its share in FieldTurf, which led to the integration of the two companies. FieldTurf is now a part of the Tarkett Sports division, part of the holding company Tarkett SA, the FieldTurf head corporate office is located in Calhoun, Georgia. In May 2010, FieldTurf acquired EasyTurf of San Diego, California, by late 2016, press reports were describing the companys product as defective. A number of agencies in New Jersey had joined together to file a lawsuit against the firm. The suits allege that the DuraSpine product it sold was inferior, internal company documents showed the company knew its sales claims were false. There is evidence showing higher player injury on artificial turf, in a study performed by the National Football League Injury and Safety Panel, published in the October 2012 issue of the American Journal of Sports Medicine, Elliott B. Hershman et al. reviewed injury data from NFL games played between 2000 and 2009. the injury rate of knee sprains as a whole was 22% higher on FieldTurf than on natural grass. While MCL sprains did not occur at a significantly higher than on grass. There are conflicting studies of the safety of FieldTurf, a five-year study funded by FieldTurf and published in the American Journal of Sports Medicine found that injury rates for high school sports were similar on natural grass and synthetic turf
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Columbia, Missouri
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Columbia /kəˈlʌmbiə/ is a city in the U. S. state of Missouri and the county seat of Boone County. Founded in 1818, it is home to the University of Missouri and is the city of the Columbia Metropolitan Area. It is Missouris fourth most-populous city, with a population of 119,108 in 2015. As a midwestern town, the city has a reputation for progressive politics, public art. At the center of Downtown is 8th Street, also known as the Avenue of the Columns, which connects Francis Quadrangle and Jesse Hall to the Boone County Courthouse, originally an agricultural town, the cultivation of the mind is Columbias chief economic concern today. Never a major center of manufacturing, the city depends on healthcare, insurance. Several companies, such as Shelter Insurance, Carfax, and Slackers CDs, cultural institutions include the State Historical Society of Missouri, the Museum of Art and Archaeology, and the annual True/False Film Festival. The Missouri Tigers, the only major college athletic program, play football at Faurot Field. The city is built upon the hills and rolling prairies of Mid-Missouri, near the Missouri River valley. Limestone forms bluffs and glades while rain carves caves and springs which water the Hinkson, Roche Perche, surrounding the city, Rock Bridge Memorial State Park, Mark Twain National Forest, and Big Muddy National Fish and Wildlife Refuge all form a greenbelt preserving sensitive and rare environments. The first humans were hunters who entered the area at least twelve thousand years ago. Later, woodland tribes lived in villages along waterways and built mounds in high places, the Osage and Missouria nations were expelled by the exploration of French traders and the rapid settlement of American pioneers. German, Irish, and other European immigrants soon joined, the modern populace is unusually diverse, over eight percent foreign-born. While White and Black remain the largest ethnicities, Asians are now the third-largest group, todays Columbians are remarkably highly educated and culturally midwestern, though traces of their Southern past remain. The city has called the Athens of Missouri for its classic beauty and educational emphasis. The Columbia area was part of the Mississippian culture and home to the Mound Builders. When European explorers arrived, the area was populated by the Osage, in 1678, La Salle claimed all of Missouri for France. The Lewis and Clark Expedition passed by the area on the Missouri River in early June 1804, in 1806, two sons of Daniel Boone established a salt lick 40 miles northwest of Columbia
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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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Big Eight Conference
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The Big Eight Conference was a National Collegiate Athletic Association -affiliated Division I-A college athletic association that sponsored football. Additionally, the University of Iowa was an member of the MVIAA. The conference was dissolved in 1996, the Big Eight kept its headquarters in Kansas City, Missouri. In February 1995, the Big Eight and the Southwest Conference announced that the two leagues had reached an agreement to form a new conference. The eight members of the Big Eight joined with SWC schools Texas, Texas A&M, Baylor, and Texas Tech to form the Big 12 Conference the following year. A vote was conducted on whether to keep the new headquarters in Kansas City. The two Oklahoma schools, all four Texas schools, and Colorado voted for the move while both Kansas schools, Nebraska, Missouri, and Iowa State voted for Kansas City. The University of Iowa who was also a member of the Western Conference was also a joint member of the conference, Iowa only participated in football and outdoor mens track and field. In 1908, Drake University and Iowa Agricultural College joined the MVIAA, Iowa who was a joint member departed in 1911 to only compete in the Western Conference, but Kansas State University joined the conference in 1913. Nebraska left in 1918 to play as an independent for two seasons before returning in 1920, in 1919, the University of Oklahoma and Saint Louis University applied for membership, but were disapproved due to deficient management of their athletic programs. The conference then added Grinnell College in 1919, with the University of Oklahoma applying again, Oklahoma A&M University joined in 1925, bringing conference membership to ten, an all-time high. At a meeting in Lincoln, Nebraska, on May 19,1928, Six of the seven state schools formed a conference that was initially known as the Big Six Conference. Just before the start of practice, the six schools announced they would retain the MVIAA name for formal purposes. However, fans and media continued to call it the Big Six, the three private schools – Drake, Grinnell, and Washington University – joined with Oklahoma A&M, becoming known as the Missouri Valley Conference. For the remainder of the Big Eights run, both conferences claimed 1907 as their date, as well as the same history through 1927. To this day, it has never been established which conference was the original. Conference membership grew with the addition of the University of Colorado on December 1,1947, later that month, Reaves E. Peters was hired as Commissioner of Officials and Assistant Secretary and set up the first conference offices in Kansas City, Missouri. With the addition of Colorado, the unofficial name became the Big Seven Conference, coincidentally
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Big 12 Conference
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The Big 12 Conference is a ten-school collegiate athletic conference headquartered in Irving, Texas. Its ten members, located in Iowa, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, additionally, the Big 12 has ten affiliate members, six for the sport of wrestling, one for womens gymnastics, and 3 for womens rowing. The Big 12 Conference is a 501 nonprofit organization incorporated in Delaware, the Big 12 was formerly composed of 12 schools, hence its name, it was formed in 1996 when four schools from the collapsing Southwest Conference joined with the pre-existing Big Eight Conference. Oklahoma and Oklahoma State were grouped with the four newcomers in the Big 12 South, TCU and West Virginia joined from the Mountain West and Big East Conferences respectively to offset two of the departing schools, bringing the conference to its current strength. Attempts to rename the Big 12 to reflect its current strength would lead to confusion with the current Big Ten Conference, the Big 12 Conference commissioner is Bob Bowlsby. Full members Assoc. member Other Conference The Big 12 Conference sponsors championship competition in ten mens, nonetheless, it is an open coed sport in NCAA college athletics, with mens, womens, and coed teams in all NCAA divisions competing against each other. TCU and West Virginia both field coed teams, through 2017, West Virginia with 19 national titles and TCU with two, together have won over half of the NCAA titles awarded since the inaugural NCAA championship in 1980. West Virginia also won four national titles. The Big 12 began athletic play in the fall of 1996, from its formation until 2011, its 12 members competed in two divisions. Between 2011 and 2012 four charter members left the conference while two joined in 2013. The Big 12 is unique among the current Power Five conferences in that it only has 10 members, despite the name, causing some confusion. From 1987 to 2015,12 or more members were required for a championship game. Former Texas Athletic Director DeLoss Dodds and former football coach Mack Brown, along with Oklahoma football coach Bob Stoops, critics argued it was a competitive advantage over other contract conferences. Conferences with a game have their division champions typically play one of their toughest games of the year in the last week of the regular season. Unlike the other Power 5 conferences in which a team plays a portion of the other teams in the conference each season. This theoretically allows for the declaration of a de facto champion without the need for a rematch between the top two teams in the conference. On June 3,2016, the conference announced it would reinstate the football game in the 2017 season. This followed the passage of a new NCAA rule allowing all FBS conferences to hold football championship games regardless of their membership numbers, the Big 12 population base is centered on the states of Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, West Virginia and Iowa
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Arkansas Razorbacks football
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The Arkansas Razorbacks football program represents the University of Arkansas, located in Fayetteville, Arkansas, in the sport of American football. The Razorbacks compete in the Football Bowl Subdivision of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, the program has 13 conference championships,45 All-Americans, and an all-time record of 700–475–40. The Razorbacks are the 23rd-most successful team in football history by number of wins. Home games are played at locations near the two largest campuses of the University of Arkansas System, Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium in Fayetteville, the Arkansas Razorbacks have 84 active NFL players currently in the 2015 NFL Season. The first University of Arkansas football team was formed in 1894 and coached by John Futrall and that team played three games, two against Fort Smith High School and one against Texas. Before the 1909 season, the teams was called the Arkansas Cardinals, the name and mascot changed following the 1909 season when the football team, coached by Hugo Bezdek, finished 7–0. Arkansas prevailed over powerhouses Oklahoma, LSU and Washington of St. Louis in 1909 and it was with the help of Steve Creekmore that this was accomplished. Creekmore became perhaps the first Razorback star, a quarterback from Van Buren who initially played only intramurals, Bezdek used Creekmore to install a very early edition of the hurry-up offense, as the team never huddled and chased the ball after every play. Creekmore was also known for fast and slippery running, blocking, there are differing stories about the origins of the Razorbacks mascot, however. The Texarkana Arkansas High School mascot and athletic emblem is the Razorback with red, the Razorback mascot was selected in 1910 to replace the Cardinal as the University of Arkansas mascot. In exchange for its use, the university provided used athletic gear to Texarkana Arkansas High, this practice is no longer used. With the new name and mascot, the Hogs defeated LSU 51–0 and gave Texas A&M their only loss in 1910, in 1913, Arkansas quarterback J. L. Carter and the Razorbacks lost to Ole Miss, and took a fateful train to Arkadelphia to play Ouachita Baptist. While Carter was eating, he was invited to a meeting of Ouachita boosters and he transferred and defeated Arkansas 15–9 in 1914. The Hogs would be contacted by L. Theo Bellmont in 1913 in his attempt to create a conference to regulate use of ringers. Hugo Bezdek, since replaced by E. T. Pickering, had recommended that the Hogs join a conference before he left to coach at Oregon, the Razorbacks joined the Southwest Conference as charter members in 1915. The conference also included teams from Texas and Oklahoma, southwestern would also join, but leave the following year. The 1916,1917, and 1919 teams were led at quarterback by Arkansas greatest athlete Gene Davidson, the Razorbacks didnt have a winning conference record until 1920, and didnt win the conference championship until 1936. Arkansas had the best record during the 1933 season, but had to forfeit the SWC Championship because Ulysses Heine Schleuter, Schleuter had told coach Fred Thomsen that he was eligible, but he was recognized by an SMU player during the game as a former Cornhusker
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Kansas Jayhawks football
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The Kansas Jayhawks football program is the intercollegiate football program of the University of Kansas. The program is classified in the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I Bowl Subdivision, the head coach is David Beaty, who began his tenure in 2015. The programs first season was 1890, making it one of the football programs established in the United States. The teams home field is Memorial Stadium, which opened in 1921 and is the seventh-oldest college football stadium in the nation, until 2014, Memorial Stadium was one of the few football stadiums in Division I that had a track encircling the field. KUs all-time record is 581–620–58, as of the conclusion of the 2016 season, Kansas has appeared in twelve bowl games, including three trips to the Orange Bowl. Kansas played in the first NCAA-contracted nationally televised regular season football game on September 20,1952. The Big Eight was folded into the Big 12 in 1996, the most successful era for KU football was 1890 to 1932, when the program recorded two undefeated seasons and posted an overall.643 winning percentage.477. From 1969 through the 2016 season KUs winning percentage slipped further to.387, during the 2012 season, the programs all-time winning percentage fell below.500 for the first time since KU finished 1–2 in 1890. Nevertheless, even during these years, the team has had some successful seasons, winning the Orange Bowl in 2008. The University of Kansas fielded its first football team in 1890, Kansas traveled to nearby Baker University to play the first college football game in Kansas to start that season. After playing an abbreviated season in 1890, KU played its first full schedule in 1891 and immediately found success. In 1899, Hall-of-Famer Fielding H. Yost served one season as KUs football coach, posting the first perfect season in school history. After the turn of the century, Hall-of-Famer John Outland, who played at KU in 1895–1896, returned to Kansas to serve as head coach, the 1902 season featured the programs first game of its rivalry against Kansas State, a 16–0 Jayhawk win. The program had ten head coaches in its first 14 seasons, kennedys overall coaching record at Kansas was 52–9–4. This still ranks as the most wins for any Kansas head coach, KU has not had another undefeated season since 1908. Kennedys long tenure was followed by period of rapid turnover in coaches. The most successful of these was Herman Olcott, who had a tenure as head coach from 1915 to 1917. Basketball coach Phog Allen also served one year as head coach during this era
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Illinois Fighting Illini football
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The Illinois Fighting Illini is a college football program, representing the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. They compete in NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision and the Big Ten Conference, the University of Illinois fielded its first football team in 1890, under the direction of Scott Williams, the teams starting quarterback who also served as the teams head coach. The team finished with a record of 1–2, Robert Lackey took over the reins for the programs second season in 1891, and the team finished undefeated with a mark of 6–0. He announced at the time that he would spend the working as a waiter at a hotel in Old Orchard Beach, Maine. He was the head football coach at Illinois, held that position for the 1892 and 1893 seasons. His 1892 team compiled a 9–4–1 record, played the first games in the rivalries with Northwestern and Chicago. George Huff was the head coach in Illini football history. Huff led the Illini into the Big Ten Conference, which formed in 1896, after back-to-back 4–2–1 seasons in 1895 and 1896, the Illini posted a 6–2 record in 1897. That proved to be the point of Huffs tenure, as Illinois slipped to 4–5 in 1898 and 3–5–1 in 1899. Arthur Hall served as Illinois head football coach from 1907-1912, compiling a 36–12–4 record, Hall led the Illini to an undefeated 7–0 mark in 1910. For 29 seasons, Robert Zuppke served as Illinois head football coach, during his tenure, Illinois fan attendance at home games skyrocketed from an average of 4,500 to 60,000. Zuppke led Under Zuppkes leadership, the Fighting Illini posted undefeated seasons in 1914,1915,1923 and 1927, in 1914, the Fighting Illini compiled a 7–0 record, claim a national championship, and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 224 to 22. The team was selected as the national champion for 1914 by the Billingsley Report. End Perry Graves and guard Ralph Chapman were consensus All-Americans, in 1915, the Illini compiled a 5–0–2 record and finished as co-champions of the Western Conference. Center John W. Watson was the team captain, in 1923, the Fighting Illini compiled an 8–0 record and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 136 to 20. Guard Jim McMillen and halfback Red Grange were consensus All-Americans, McMillen was also the team captain. In 1927, the Fighting Illini compiled a 7–0–1 record and outscored their opponents by a total of 152 to 24. The team was selected as the 1927 national champion by the Billingsley Report, Dickinson System, Helms Athletic Foundation, National Championship Foundation, and Parke H. Davis
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Iowa State Cyclones football
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The Iowa State Cyclones football is the football team at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa. The team is coached by Matt Campbell, the Cyclones compete in the Big 12 Conference, and are currently a Division I Football Bowl Subdivision member of the NCAA. The Cyclones play their games at Jack Trice Stadium, with a capacity of 61,500. Football first made its way onto the Iowa State campus in 1878 as a recreational sport, in 1894, college president William M. Beardshear spearheaded the foundation of an athletic association to officially sanction Iowa State football teams. The 1894 team finished with a 6–1 mark, including a 16–8 victory over what is now the University of Iowa, one of the pioneers of football, Pop Warner, spent time at Iowa State early in his career. Soon after Warner left for Georgia, Iowa State had its first game of the season, Iowa State came into Evanston as the underdog Iowa State then defeated Northwestern 36–0. A Chicago sportswriter called the team cornfed giants from Iowa while the Chicago Tribunes headline read, since then, Iowa State teams have been known as the Cyclones. Overall, the team had three wins and three losses and, like Georgia, Iowa State retained Warner for the next season, in 1896 the team had eight wins and two losses. Despite leaving Cornell in 1898, Warner remained as the coach of Iowa State for another year. During his last three years at Iowa State the team had a season but Warner was unable to match his 1896 triumph. After playing at Iowa and then serving as an assistant coach for two years, Clyde Williams came to Ames as an assistant coach for ISU, Williams served as the Cyclones head football coach for six seasons from 1907 to 1912. During that time, he had a record of 32–15–2. This ranks him fifth at Iowa State in total wins and fourth at Iowa State in winning percentage, in addition, he led Iowa State to two Missouri Valley Conference football titles in 1911 and 1912, which are currently the only two conference football championships in school history. In addition to his football contributions Williams was the schools first mens basketball coach from 1908 to 1911 and he also served as Iowa States baseball coach, and was their athletic director from 1914 to 1919. In 1914 Iowa State completed construction of their new football field, Williams was inducted into the State of Iowa Hall of Fame in 1956. He is also one of the few people inducted into both the University of Iowa Athletics Hall of Fame and the Iowa State athletics Hall of Fame, the success Iowa State found in the inception of their football program was not replicated for most of the mid-20th century. In 1922 after having two different head coaches in as many years, ISU hired up-and-comer Sam Willaman away from East Technical HS in Cleveland, when Willaman came to Iowa state, he brought with him six of his former East Tech players, including an African-American, Jack Trice. Trice was the first African-American player at Iowa State, and one of the first to play football in the mid-west, Trice suffered a severe malicious injury during a game at the Minnesota in 1923, and died from complications
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Nebraska Cornhuskers football
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The Nebraska Cornhuskers football team represents the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Among the 128 Division I-A teams, Nebraska is one of ten programs to win 800 or more games. Nebraska has more victories against Power Five opponents than any program, as well as the third most victories all-time, behind only Michigan. Nebraska also has the most wins and the highest winning percentage of any program over the last 50 years, ESPN ranks two undefeated Nebraska squads, the 1971 team and the 1995 team, among the top three teams in college football history. Nebraska claims 46 conference championships and five championships,1970,1971,1994,1995. The titles in the 1990s marked the first time that a team won three championships in four seasons since the Notre Dame Fighting Irish in 1946–1949. Also, the 2011–2012 Alabama Crimson Tide, the 1994–1995 Nebraska Cornhuskers, Nebraska also has had five undefeated seasons in which they were not the national champions,1902,1903,1913,1914, and 1915. Between 1912 and 1916, a 34-game unbeaten streak was recorded by head coach Ewald O. Stiehm, famous Cornhuskers include Heisman Trophy winners Johnny Rodgers, Mike Rozier, and Eric Crouch. Rodgers was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame and for the new millennium he was voted the teams Player of the Century, Rozier was likewise inducted into the hall in 2006. Bible, Bob Devaney, Biff Jones, Tom Osborne, Eddie Robbie Robinson, on June 11,2010, Nebraska ended the universitys affiliation with the Big 12 Conference and joined the Big Ten Conference beginning in the 2011 season. The Huskers team began its history as the Old Gold Knights, the name Cornhuskers first appeared in the school newspaper as We Have Met The Cornhuskers And They Are Ours referring to a 20–18 upset victory over Iowa in 1893. The term Cornhuskers was referring to Iowa in that instance, in 1899, Cy Sherman was the first person to refer to the Nebraska football team as the Cornhuskers and the team has used that name since 1900. Nebraska football began play in 1890 with a 10–0 victory over the Omaha YMCA on Thanksgiving Day, the football program started strong and experienced success from the very beginning, going twenty-eight years straight with only a single losing season. Until the 1–7–1 losing season in 1899 in coach A. Edwin Branchs only year at the helm, george Flippin was the first African-American athlete at Nebraska and only the fifth black athlete at a predominantly white university. Because of Flippins presence on the roster, Missouri refused to play a game with Nebraska at Omaha in 1892. The result was a 1–0 forfeit, Nebraskas 4th coach, Frank Crawford was the first paid head football coach at Nebraska. Eddie Robbie Robinson and Fielding H. Yost, the sixth and seventh head coaches, were the earliest Nebraska coaches to eventually be inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame. Booth was the programs 9th leader, and had the second-best career record spanning more than a year during this era and his 1902 team went undefeated, untied and unscored upon
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Oklahoma Sooners football
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The Oklahoma Sooners football program is a college football team that represents the University of Oklahoma. The team is currently a member of the Big 12 Conference, the program began in 1895 and is one of the most successful programs since World War II with the most wins and the highest winning percentage since 1945. The program has 7 national championships,45 conference championships,154 All-Americans, Oklahoma is also the only program that has had four coaches with 100+ wins, including current head coach Bob Stoops. They became the sixth NCAA FBS team to win 850 games when they defeated the Kansas Jayhawks on November 22,2014, the Sooners play their home games at Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium in Norman, Oklahoma. Football at Oklahoma made its start in September 1895,12 years before statehood, the team was organized by John A. Harts, a student from Winfield, Kansas who had played the game in his home state. That first team was composed of mostly non-students, including a local fireman and that first season saw the team go 0–1, being blanked 0–34 by a more experienced Oklahoma City Town Team. The first game was played on a field of low prairie grass just northwest of the current site of Holmberg Hall. Several members of the Oklahoma team were injured, including Coach Harts, and by the end of the game, after that year, Harts left Oklahoma to prospect for gold in the Arctic. The team got its first real coach in 1897 when the new modern language professor, Parrington played some football at Harvard and was more exposed to football coming from the East coast. In his four years as coach, Parringtons teams racked up nine wins, one loss. After the 1900 season, football began interfering with Parringtons teaching and he stepped down as head coach shortly thereafter and went on to win the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1928 at the University of Washington. The Sooners had three more coaches over the four seasons. Fred Roberts led the Sooners to a 3–2 season in 1901, the most notable event of those four years came in 1904 when Oklahoma had its first match against its instate rival, Oklahoma A&M. The game was played on November 6,1904 at Mineral Wells Park in Guthrie, the Oklahoma team soundly defeated the Oklahoma Aggies 75–0, but it was an unusual touchdown that is remembered most of that game. Bedlam football, the rivalry between the University of Oklahoma and Oklahoma State University, was born that day. After ten years of football, the program began to get serious and they found Bennie Owen, a former quarterback of the undefeated Kansas team of 1899 led by famous coach Fielding H. Yost. Owens previous team beat Oklahoma twice in 1903 and 1904, so the Sooners were familiar with his ability, Owens first two years at Oklahoma were spent between Norman and Arkansas City as Oklahoma did not have a big enough budget to keep him there all year. The early years of Owens tenure were tough because of budget issues, due to a low travel budget, his teams would regularly have to play as many as three games in one trek
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Truman the Tiger
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Truman the Tiger is the official mascot of the athletic teams of the University of Missouri Tigers. Truman is named after U. S. President Harry S. Truman, the mascot was named on September 12,1986, though the use of a Bengal tiger as Missouris mascot is traced to the 1890s. Truman has been awarded best mascot in the several times. The mascot makes hundreds of appearances statewide at university functions, sporting events and at private parties, the day of the 2011 Independence Bowl featuring Missouri and North Carolina, Truman accidentally broke the crystal bowl that was part of the trophy to be awarded to the victorious team. In 1864, while in the midst of the American Civil War and it was during this time that the residents of Columbia formed a home guard unit that became notoriously known as the Fighting Tigers of Columbia. This name was given because of the groups steadfast readiness to fight against Confederate bushwhackers, hoping to plunder the city and university, under the command of Bloody Bill Anderson. Later, in 1890, an alumnus suggested the universitys newly formed football team be called the Tigers out of respect for those who fought to defend Columbia, the Tiger was the official mascot of the University of Missouri before Truman took his place in 1986. Trumans predecessor was a plain grey tiger with black stripes that was known as The Tiger. The Tiger was officially replaced by the more family-friendly Truman The Tiger before the 1986 football season, history of the University of Missouri Missouris Mascot and Colors
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Marching Mizzou
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Marching Mizzou, M2, or The Big M of the Midwest is the performing marching band for the University of Missouri, founded in 1885 as a college military band. Originally consisting of only 12 members, it is now the largest student organization on the MU campus, Marching Mizzous signature drill Flip Tigers has been a well-known tradition of its pre-game show since 1960. Marching Mizzou began as the University of Missouri Cadet Band in 1885, initially, membership was limited to members of the schools Corps of Cadets. The Corps obliged, and applications for membership grew quickly, being a military band, the group performed at both Cadet Corps events and school events, playing music from composers like Beethoven and Wagner. Under George Venable, director from 1910 to 1946, the band moved away from military marching. The big M formation debuted in 1934, and the band won highest honors in the Big 6 Conference that same year. Following the dissolution of the Corps of Cadets in 1944, membership was opened every male in the university, the bands first annual High School Band Day was held in 1945, inviting high schools to participate in a massed performance during half-time. In 1956, The University of Missouri Cadet Band split into a band, a university band. Charles Emmons became director in 1957, and under his direction women were allowed to join the band in 1958, by 1966, over 50 bands and 4,000 students were participating in Band Day, requiring two sub-conductors to relay cues to the entire group. In 1957, director Charles Emmons added a group of baton-twirling majorettes, the group became known as the Golden Girls after purchasing now-iconic gold sequined uniforms in 1965. When Alexander Pickard became director in 1966, he began adding dancing to the Golden Girls routines, for the next decade, the majorettes evolved into a dance team as their popularity across the campus grew. By the time they ceased carrying their batons in 1976, the group almost entirely was performing as dancers, the Golden Girls gradually became a separate entity from the band, while the few feature twirlers remained a part of Marching Mizzou. The Golden Girls were invited to perform at the Japan Classic after winning the 1991 NCA Collegiate Cheer and they went on to win the same competition again in 1992 and 2003. Marching Mizzou was invited by President Truman to lead his Inaugural Parade in 1949, however, as a consolation, the legislature allowed the band to march at the governors inauguration in Jefferson City. M2 performed at Wembley Stadium in England in 1975 to 100,000 spectators, in January 2001, Marching Mizzou succeeded in traveling to Washington D. C. to perform in the inaugural parade for President George W. Bush. In March 2012, and then again in 2016, Marching Mizzou traveled to Dublin and Limerick, Ireland to perform in the St. Patricks Day Parade and an International Marching Competition, respectively. Marching Mizzou today has near 300 band members, including a color guard, a few feature twirlers. These drum majors serve as the top student leaders in M2, assisting in practices, the Golden Girls, under the coaching of Shannon Fry, work closely with the bands leaders and attend two weekly practices with Marching Mizzou
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University of Missouri
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The University of Missouri is a public land-grant research university located in Columbia, Missouri, U. S. It was founded in 1839 as the first public institution of higher education west of the Mississippi River, as the largest university in the state, it enrolled 32,777 students in 2016, offering over 300 degree programs in 19 academic colleges in the 2014–2015 school year. It is the campus of the University of Missouri System, which also maintains campuses in Kansas City, Rolla. MU is one of the nations top-tier R1 institutions and one of the 34 public universities to be members of the Association of American Universities, there are more than 300,000 MU alumni living worldwide with over one half continuing to reside in Missouri. The university was ranked 103rd among national universities in the 2016 U. S. News & World Report rankings, starting in December 1953, it boasts the countrys only university-owned TV network affiliate, operated by the Missouri School of Journalism. In 1908, the worlds first school of journalism was founded by Walter Williams as the Missouri School of Journalism, the University of Missouri Research Reactor Center is the worlds most powerful university research reactor. MU is one of six public universities in the United States with a school of medicine, veterinary medicine, engineering, agriculture. The university also owns the University of Missouri Health Care system, the only athletic program that operates a NCAA Division I FBS football team in Missouri is known as the Missouri Tigers and competes as a member of the Southeastern Conference. The schools mascot, Truman the Tiger, is named after Missourian, according to the NCAA, the American tradition of homecoming was established at the university in 1911, the tradition has since been adopted nationwide. In 1839, the Missouri Legislature passed the Geyer Act to establish funds for a state university and it would be the first public university west of the Mississippi River. To secure the university, the citizens of Columbia and Boone County pledged $117,921 in cash, the land on which the university was eventually constructed was just south of Columbias downtown and owned by James S. Rollins. He was later called the Father of the University, as the first public university in the Louisiana Purchase, the school was shaped by Thomas Jeffersons ideas about public education. In 1862 the American Civil War forced the university to close for much of the year, residents of Columbia formed a home guard militia that became known as the Fighting Tigers of Columbia. They were given the name for their readiness to protect the city and university, in 1890, the universitys newly formed football team took the name the Tigers after the Civil War militia. In 1870 the institution was granted land-grant college status under the Morrill Act of 1862, the act led to the founding of the Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy as an offshoot of the main campus in Columbia. It developed as the present-day Missouri University of Science and Technology, in 1888 the Missouri Agricultural Experiment Station opened. This grew to encompass ten centers and research farms around Missouri, by 1890 the university encompassed a normal college, engineering college, arts and science college, school of agriculture and mechanical arts. School of medicine, and school of law, on January 9,1892, Academic Hall, the institutions main building, burned in a fire that completely gutted the building, leaving little more standing than six stone Ionic columns
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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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NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision
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Division I is the highest level of intercollegiate athletics sanctioned by the National Collegiate Athletic Association in the United States. This level was called the University Division of the NCAA, in contrast to the lower level College Division. For football only, Division I was further subdivided in 1978 into Division I-A, Division I-AA, in 2006, Division I-A and I-AA were renamed Football Bowl Subdivision and Football Championship Subdivision, respectively. FCS teams are allowed to award scholarships, a practice technically allowed. FBS teams also have to meet attendance requirements, while FCS teams do not need to meet minimum attendance requirements. Another difference is post season play, starting with the 2014 postseason, a four-team playoff called the College Football Playoff, replaced the previous one game championship format. Even so, Division I FBS football is still the only NCAA sport in which a champion is not determined by an NCAA-sanctioned championship event. All D-I schools must field teams in at least seven sports for men and seven for women or six for men and eight for women, with at least two team sports for each gender. Division I schools must meet minimum financial aid awards for their athletics program, Several other NCAA sanctioned minimums and differences that distinguish Division I from Divisions II and III. Each playing season has to be represented by each gender as well, there are contest and participant minimums for each sport, as well as scheduling criteria. Mens and womens teams have to play all but two games against Division I teams, for men, they must play one-third of all their contests in the home arena. The NCAA has limits on the financial aid each Division I member may award in each sport that the school sponsors. Equivalency sports, in which the NCAA limits the total financial aid that a school can offer in a sport to the equivalent of a set number of full scholarships. Roster limitations may or may not apply, depending on the sport, the term counter is also key to this concept. The NCAA defines a counter as an individual who is receiving financial aid that is countable against the aid limitations in a sport. The number of scholarships that Division I members may award in sport is listed below. In this table, scholarship numbers for head-count sports are indicated without a point, for equivalency sports, they are listed with a decimal point. An exception exists for players at non-scholarship FCS programs who receive aid in another sport, participants in basketball are counted in that sport, unless they also play football
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National Collegiate Athletic Association
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The National Collegiate Athletic Association is a non-profit association which regulates athletes of 1,281 institutions, conferences, organizations, and individuals. It also organizes the programs of many colleges and universities in the United States and Canada. The organization is headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, in 2014, the NCAA generated almost a billion dollars in revenue. 80 to 90% of this revenue was due to the Division I Mens Basketball Tournament and this revenue is then distributed back into various organizations and institutions across the United States. In August 1973, the current three-division setup of Division I, Division II, under NCAA rules, Division I and Division II schools can offer scholarships to athletes for playing a sport. Division III schools may not offer any athletic scholarships, generally, larger schools compete in Division I and smaller schools in II and III. Division I football was divided into I-A and I-AA in 1978. Subsequently, the term Division I-AAA was briefly added to delineate Division I schools which do not field a football program at all, in 2006, Divisions I-A and I-AA were respectively renamed the Football Bowl Subdivision and Football Championship Subdivision. Inter-collegiate sports began in the US in 1852 when crews from Harvard University, as other sports emerged, notably football and basketball, many of these same concepts and standards were adopted. Football, in particular, began to emerge as a marquee sport, the IAAUS was officially established on March 31,1906, and took its present name, the NCAA, in 1910. For several years, the NCAA was a group and rules-making body, but in 1921, the first NCAA national championship was conducted. Gradually, more rules committees were formed and more championships were created, a series of crises brought the NCAA to a crossroads after World War II. The Sanity Code – adopted to establish guidelines for recruiting and financial aid – failed to curb abuses, postseason football games were multiplying with little control, and member schools were increasingly concerned about how the new medium of television would affect football attendance. The complexity of problems and the growth in membership and championships demonstrated the need for full-time professional leadership. Walter Byers, previously an executive assistant, was named executive director in 1951. Byers wasted no time placing his stamp on the Association, as college athletics grew, the scope of the nations athletics programs diverged, forcing the NCAA to create a structure that recognized varying levels of emphasis. In 1973, the Associations membership was divided into three legislative and competitive divisions – I, II, and III, five years later in 1978, Division I members voted to create subdivisions I-A and I-AA in football. Until the 1980s, the association did not offer womens athletics, instead, the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women, with nearly 1000 member schools, governed womens collegiate sports in the United States
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Orange Bowl
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The Orange Bowl is an annual American college football bowl game played at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida. This bowl game is sponsored by Capital One and part of the College Football Playoff and it has been played annually since January 1,1935. The Orange Bowl, along with the Sugar Bowl and the Sun Bowl, is the second-oldest bowl game in the country, behind the Rose Bowl. In its early years, the Orange Bowl had no defined conference tie-ins, from the 1950s until the mid-1990s, the Orange Bowl had a strong relationship with the Big 8 Conference. The champion was invited to the game in most years during this time. Opponents of the Big 8 varied, but were often major independents, runners-up in the Southeastern Conference, in the 1990s, the Orange Bowl was a member of the Bowl Coalition, but kept its Big 8 tie-in. It was later a member of the Bowl Alliance, from 1998 to 2013, The Orange Bowl was a member of the now-defunct Bowl Championship Series. The Orange Bowl served as the BCS National Championship Game in 2001 and 2005, however, beginning with the 2006 season, the BCS National Championship Game became a stand-alone event, hosted by the local bowl organization about one week following the New Years Day bowl games. Under that format the Orange Bowl Committee hosted two games in both 2009 and in 2013, all at Sun Life Stadium. The BCS ended after the 2013 season, being replaced by the current College Football Playoff, since 2007, the Orange Bowl has been host to the Atlantic Coast Conference champion unless they are involved in the national championship game and has used the brand Home of the ACC Champion. The 2013 match-up ended with the Florida State Seminoles, who won the ACC championship and this was the first time a non-AQ team that had suffered a loss previously in the season made it to the Orange Bowl. In 1890, Pasadena, California held its first Tournament of Roses Parade to showcase the citys mild weather compared to the winters in northern cities. As one of the said, In New York, people are buried in snow. Here, our flowers are blooming and our oranges are about to bear, lets hold a festival to tell the world about our paradise. In 1902, the festival was enhanced by adding an American football game. In 1926, leaders in Miami, Florida, decided to do the same with a Fiesta of the American Tropics that was centered around a New Years Day football game. Although a second Fiesta was never held, Miami leaders- Earnest E Seiler, later revived the idea with the Palm Festival, in 1932, George E. Hussey, official greeter of Miami, organized the first Festival of Palms Bowl, a predecessor of the Orange Bowl. With Miami suffering from both the Great Depression and the preceding Florida land bust, Hussey and other Miamians sought to help its economy by organizing a similar to Pasadenas Rose Bowl
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Cotton Bowl Classic
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The Cotton Bowl Classic is an American college football bowl game that has been held annually since January 1,1937. Between 1937 and 2009, the game was played at its stadium in Dallas, in 2010. Following the dissolution of the SWC in 1996, the game hosted a runner-up from the Big 12 Conference, on January 2,2017, Wisconsin beat Western Michigan in the 81st edition of the game by a score of 24–16. The Cotton Bowl Classic was founded in Dallas in 1937 at the Texas State Fair Grounds, TCU of Fort Worth took on Marquette, winning 16–6, but the game lost money even though some 17,000 attended. Nonetheless, Sanford persevered, and in 1938 the game made a profit as Rice of Houston defeated Colorado 28–14 in front of a crowd of 37,000. Some 40,000 attended the 1939 match between Saint Marys College of California and Texas Tech, with the Gaels upsetting the undefeated Red Raiders 20–13. In 1940, an underdog Clemson team surprised the Boston College Eagles 6–3, in the first, attendance at this game was given as 20,000. Later that year, a group of prominent Dallas citizens took over the staging of the game as the Cotton Bowl Athletic Association, a few months later, the CBAA became an agency of the Southwest Conference. From 1941 to 1994, the SWCs champion hosted the Cotton Bowl Classic, in 1943, The Texas Longhorns represented the SWC in their first ever bowl game against a highly ranked Georgia Tech team at the time. Prior to the game, sportswriters boasted that Texas did not belong in the league as Georgia Tech. Texas proved the public wrong by defeating the Yellow Jackets 14–7 in what was mostly a defensive battle and this Cotton Bowl was the first bowl appearance for Texas as the Longhorns would go on to appear in a record 22 Cotton Bowls, the most of any team. In 1947 LSU and Arkansas played in front of 38,000 people to a 0–0 tie in what would become known as the Ice Bowl. LSU got the better of Arkansas most of the game, in 1948 Penn State, in a bowl game for the first time in 25 years, played Dallas SMU to a 13–13 tie. This was the first interracial game played at the Cotton Bowl, the 1953 Cotton Bowl would be a rematch of the 1951 bowl game as Texas and Tennessee played for the second time. Texas defensive stars shut out the Vols 16–0 as the Longhorns avenged the previous meeting when Tennessee beat Texas 20–14, the 1954 Cotton Bowl Classic featured one of the most famous plays in college football history. Rices Dickey Moegle began a run around end from his teams 5-yard line, alabamas Tommy Lewis jumped off the bench and tackled Moegle. The referee, Cliff Shaw, saw what happened and signaled touchdown even though Moegle was tackled at the 42-yard line, the 1957 Classic matched the TCU Horned Frogs against the Jim Brown-led Syracuse Orangemen. Brown rushed for 135 yards, scored three touchdowns and kicked three points but a fourth-quarter blocked extra point by TCUs Chico Mendoza proved the margin of victory as TCU won
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Sugar Bowl
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The Sugar Bowl is an annual American college football bowl game played in the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana. The Sugar Bowl has been played annually since January 1,1935, the Sugar Bowl, along with the Orange Bowl and Sun Bowl, are the second-oldest bowl games in the country, behind the Rose Bowl Game. The Sugar Bowl is also a member of the College Football Playoff, presently, its official title is the Allstate Sugar Bowl after its current sponsor, the Allstate insurance company. The Sugar Bowl has had a longstanding — albeit not exclusive — relationship with the Southeastern Conference, from 1950 to 1995, only once did the Sugar Bowl not feature an SEC team. The SECs opponent varied from year to year, but was often the runner-up of the Big 8 or SWC, or a major independent. Since 2015, The Sugar Bowl, along with the Rose, Orange, Cotton, Peach and it hosted a playoff semifinal following the 2014 season, and will next host one following the 2017 season. As a member of the Bowl Championship Series, the Sugar Bowl hosted the BCS National Championship Game twice. However, from the 2006 season to the 2013 season, the BCS National Championship Game had been a stand-alone event, the payout for the 2006 game was $14–17 million per participating team. According to Sports Illustrated, the 2007 salary for Sugar Bowl CEO Paul Hoolahan was $607,500, in 1890, Pasadena, California held its first Tournament of Roses Parade to showcase the citys mild weather compared to the harsh winters in northern cities. As one of the said, In New York, people are buried in snow. Here, our flowers are blooming and our oranges are about to bear, lets hold a festival to tell the world about our paradise. In 1902, the festival was enhanced by adding a football game. In 1926, leaders in Miami, Florida decided to do the same with a Fiesta of the American Tropics that was centered around a New Years Day football game, although a second Fiesta was never held, Miami leaders later revived the idea with the Palm Festival. The football game and associated festivities of the Palm Festival were soon named the Orange Bowl. In New Orleans, Louisiana, the idea of a New Years Day football game was first presented in 1927 by Colonel James M. Thomson, publisher of the New Orleans Item, and Sports Editor Fred Digby. Every year thereafter, Digby repeated calls for action, and even came up with the name Sugar Bowl for his football game. By 1935, enough support had been garnered for the first Sugar Bowl, the game was played in Tulane Stadium, which had been built in 1926 on Tulane Universitys campus. Warren V. Miller, the first president of the New Orleans Mid-Winter Sports Association, much controversy preceded the 1956 Sugar Bowl, when Bobby Griers Pitt Panthers met the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets
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Fiesta Bowl
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The Fiesta Bowl is an American college football bowl game played annually at the University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Arizona. Between its origination in 1971 and 2006, the game was hosted in Tempe, as of November 2016, it is sponsored by PlayStation. From 1996 through the January 2014 game, Frito-Lay was the title sponsor through its Tostitos tortilla chip brand. Other previous sponsors include Sunkist and IBM, in 1998, the Fiesta Bowl became part of the Bowl Championship Series, and before 2006 every four years was the designee for the national championship game. The Fiesta Bowl was born from the Western Athletic Conferences frustrated attempts to obtain bowl invitations for its champions, in 1968 and 1969 respectively, champions Wyoming and Arizona State failed to secure any bowl selection. The next year, undefeated Arizona State was bypassed by the bowls and had to settle for an appearance in the less prestigious Peach Bowl. The Fiesta Bowl therefore initially provided a berth for the WAC champion. In its first decade of existence, the Fiesta Bowl was played in the last week of December, the 1971 inaugural game featured another top-ten Arizona State squad against top-twenty opponent Florida State. The 1974 game featured WAC champ BYU and their new coach, BYU was in control until BYUs first All-American quarterback Gary Sheide went down with a leg injury and eventually lost 16–6. By 1975, the game was able to attract Big Eight co-champion Nebraska to play undefeated Arizona State in a matchup of top-five teams. In 1977, the game was able to attract a top-five opponent in Penn State, despite WAC champion #16 BYU refusing to play in the bowl due to its being held on Sunday. In 1978, Arizona and Arizona State both joined the Pac-10 Conference and the Fiesta Bowls tie-in with the WAC ended. The game continued to attract high quality matchups, so beginning with the 1981 game the Fiesta Bowl shifted to New Years Day alongside the major bowl games—the Cotton, Orange, Sugar, and Rose. The Fiesta Bowl was the first bowl game to acquire a title sponsor when it became the Sunkist Fiesta Bowl starting with the 1986 game. A major breakthrough occurred after the 1986 season when the top two teams in the country, Miami and Penn State, agreed to play for the de facto national championship in the Fiesta Bowl. At the time, the four major bowl games granted automatic bids to their conference champions. Both Miami and Penn State were independents at that time, and were free to choose a bowl. The Fiesta Bowl won the bidding and the game was set to be played on January 2, Penn State won 14–10 over Miami, and the game drew the largest television audience in the history of college football at the time
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Gary Pinkel
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Gary Robin Pinkel is a former college football coach who most recently was the head coach for the University of Missouri Tigers football team. From 1991 to 2000, he coached at the University of Toledo and he is the most winning coach in Toledos history. He is also the most winning coach in the history of Missouri, before becoming a head coach, Gary Pinkel served as an assistant at the University of Washington under Don James from 1979 through 1990, the last six of those years as an offensive coordinator. Born in Akron, Ohio, Pinkel graduated from Kenmore High School and attended Kent State University, Pinkel received his bachelors degree in education in 1973 and began his coaching career as a graduate at Kent State under James, who left after the 1974 season for Washington. Pinkel joined him in Seattle for a season in 1976, spent two years at Bowling Green, then returned to Washington for 12 seasons, Pinkel and Alabama head coach Nick Saban were college teammates. Pinkel took over the coaching job at Toledo in 1991 when Saban left to become defensive coordinator for the Cleveland Browns. His roommate at Kent State was Jack Lambert, who would have a Hall of Fame career as middle linebacker for the legendary Pittsburgh Steelers teams of the 1970s. Pinkel did post-graduate studies at Kent State and Bowling Green State University, Pinkel posted a record of 73-37-3 in 10 seasons at Toledo, including a 53-23-3 record in conference. He compiled three West Division titles and the championship in 1995. In 1995, Pinkels Rockets finished 11-0-1, won the Vegas Bowl and they were one of only three teams in the nation to finish the regular season undefeated. The others were Nebraska and Florida, who played for the national championship, in 2000, Toledo went to Penn State and defeated Joe Paternos Nittany Lions 24-6. Pinkel guided Toledo to a 10-1 record that season, 6-1 in conference play, arriving at Missouri after the 2000 season, Pinkel led the Tigers to ten bowl games in fifteen years, winning six. The first was in 2003, a 27–14 loss to Arkansas, Missouri then lost to Oregon State, 39–38, in the Brut Sun Bowl. In 2007, a year for the Mizzou program, Pinkel led his team to a No.1 AP ranking at the end of the regular season after finishing 11–1. They fell to Oklahoma in the Big 12 Championship game, the Tigers throttled the Razorbacks, strolling to an easy 38–7 victory and a final season ranking of No.4 in the AP Poll. Pinkels other accomplishments while at Mizzou include ending the Tigers 24-year losing streak to Nebraska in 2003 with a 41–24 win in Columbia. Since this win, the two schools have had a rivalry, with Missouri falling short in the series only 3–4. In 2006, Pinkel led the Tigers to a 6–0 start, during the 2007 season, Pinkel guided the Tigers to a 12–2 season with an average of 40 points per game, a Big 12 North Championship, and a 38–7 Cotton Bowl Classic victory over Arkansas
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Dan Devine
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Daniel John Devine was an American football player and coach. Devine was also the coach of the National Football Leagues Green Bay Packers from 1971 to 1974. His 1977 Notre Dame team won a championship after beating Texas in the Cotton Bowl. Devine was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1985, born in Augusta, Wisconsin, Devine later went to live with an aunt and uncle in Proctor, Minnesota. As a star at Proctor High School, Devine started at quarterback as a freshman and later known as The Proctor Flash. He also competed in three sports during his four years at the school, and graduated in 1942. Devine then enrolled at the Duluth State Teachers College, and was captain of both the basketball and football teams, playing as a 170 lb. quarterback. His time at the school was interrupted after his enlistment in the Army Air Corps during World War II and he graduated from college in 1948 with a bachelors degree in history. Devine earned his first coaching job as coach at East Jordan High School in Michigan, reaching his interview by a combination of bus travel. Following two undefeated seasons at the school, he accepted an assistant position at Michigan State in 1950 under legendary coach Clarence Biggie Munn, for the next five seasons, he helped the Spartans achieve success, including winning a national championship in 1952. On February 5,1955, Devine accepted the coaching position at Arizona State College, now Arizona State University, in Tempe. Joining him as an assistant was Frank Kush, who would have greater success at the school after Devines departure. During his three years with the Sun Devils, Devine compiled a record of 27–3–1, including a spotless 10–0 mark during his final campaign. In that last season, Devines team led the nation in total offense and his success at Arizona State resulted in an offer from the University of Missouri, which he accepted on December 18,1957. At first, Devine was reluctant to accept the position, his flight to Missouri had developed engine trouble, in addition, Devine had hot chocolate spilled on him by a stewardess during the flight, which arrived six hours late. Over the next 13 years, Devine would turn the once-dormant program into a competitive school that finished with a Top 20 ranking nine times. His record of 93–37–7 included four bowl victories, with his winning percentage passing that of Don Faurot. He left Mizzou as the second winningest coach in school history and he is now third after Gary Pinkel passed him in 2013
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2007 Missouri Tigers football team
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The 2007 Missouri Tigers football team represented the University of Missouri in the 2007 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The team was coached by Gary Pinkel and played their games at Faurot Field at Memorial Stadium. The team was led by junior quarterback Chase Daniel, a Heisman Trophy candidate who finished fourth in voting behind Tim Tebow, Darren McFadden, in the preseason, the Tigers were picked by some to win the Big 12 North. On November 24, Missouri won their 11th game of the season by beating their arch-rival Kansas Jayhawks 36–28, the game sealed Mizzous first Big 12 North division title and earned them an inaugural trip to the Big 12 Championship Game against the Oklahoma Sooners on December 1. Until the Big 12 Championship game, the Tigers were the team in college football to have scored at least 30 points in every game. The Tigers won over 9 games in a season for the first time since 1969 and this ranking lead to the Tigers first ever appearance on the cover of Sports Illustrated magazine. The Tigers also achieved their highest BCS ranking in history, at No.1 after the Border Showdown, five Tiger starters were named to the Associated Press All-American teams. Senior Center Adam Spieker was a team selection. Coaching staff from, Missouri Tigers –2007 Roster, Statistics from, Missouri Tigers – Cumulative Season Statistics. Archived from the original on December 12,2007
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C. D. Bliss
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Clifford Douglas Pop Bliss was an American football player and coach. He served as the football coach at Stanford University, Haverford College. Bliss played football at Yale University as a halfback alongside his brother, Laurie Bliss, Bliss was born in New York City and attended Yale University, where he played halfback. With his brother, Laurie Bliss, in the backfield, he led Yale to back-to-back national championships. Coached by Walter Camp, Yale did not allow opposing teams to score a point in those two seasons. In 1893, Bliss was named head coach at Stanford University. Bliss, who had graduated from Yale the year before, was filling in for Walter Camp who was the schools first coach in 1892, Bliss team was undefeated with one tie. In 1894, Bliss coached Haverford College but the team did not win a single game, in 1895, Bliss became the fifth head coach for the University of Missouri–Columbia Tigers located in Columbia, Missouri where his team record was 7 wins,1 losses, and 0 ties. This ranks him 19th at Missouri in total wins and second at Missouri in winning percentage, Bliss at the College Football Data Warehouse
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Bill Roper (American football)
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William Winston Bill Roper was an American football, basketball, and baseball player and coach. Ropers Princeton Tigers football teams of 1906,1911,1920 and his 89 wins are the most of any coach in the history of the program. Roper was also the basketball coach at Princeton for one season in 1902–03. Roper played football as an end, basketball, and baseball as an outfielder at Princeton and he was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1951. Roper served on the NCAA Football Rules Committee, Roper was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on August 22,1880. He attended the William Penn Charter School where he played football, basketball and he continued all three sports in college at Princeton University. Roper was the head football coach for the Virginia Military Institute Keydets located in Lexington, Virginia. His coaching record at VMI was 5–6, Roper had planned to study medicine, but was unable to, for health reasons. While a coach at Virginia, he studied law, and later in life he became qualified as an attorney, in 1906, Roper was the head coach at Princeton and held that position through the 1908 season. During his first stint as the coach at Princeton, he compiled a 21–4–4 record. Roper coached football at the University of Missouri for the 1909 season and his second stint at Princeton lasted from 1910 to 1911. During that tenure, he compiled a 15–1–2 record, in 1915 and 1916, Roper coached at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania. In his two seasons at Swarthmore, the compiled a record of 11–4–1. In is final stint at Princeton, Roper held his longest-tenured coaching position and his term lasted from 1919 to 1930, but ended due to an illness. He continues to hold the record for most wins by a Princeton coach, Princeton Universitys highest honor to a male athlete, the William Winston Roper Trophy, is named in his honor and awarded annually. In 1912, United States President Woodrow Wilson appointed Roper as the appraiser of merchandise at the Port of Philadelphia and he was later a member of the Philadelphia City Council and the local manager of the Prudential Insurance Company. As a politician he worked successfully to repeal prohibition, though he himself was a teetotaller, and to change Pennsylvanias blue laws, list of college football head coaches with non-consecutive tenure Bill Roper at the College Football Hall of Fame Bill Roper at the College Football Data Warehouse
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Chester Brewer
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Chester Leland Brewer was an American football, basketball, baseball, and track and field coach and athletic director. From 1903 to 1910, and in 1917 and 1919, Brewer coached football at Michigan Agricultural College, from 1911 to 1913, he coached football at the University of Missouri, where he compiled a 14–8–2 record. During his years at the Missouri, Brewer fulfilled many roles and he was hired as athletic director in 1910 and wasted little time in leaving his mark at the university, as he was one of the founding members of the M Mens Club. He founded the club on the eve of the 1911 football game against Kansas, Brewer was also the coach of the 1911 baseball team, which had an 8–3 record. He assumed the leadership of the team a second time from 1914–1917. He remained at the Missouri until 1917 and at different periods also coached basketball, Brewer is also credited with beginning the homecoming tradition at the University of Missouri and the entire nation with the 1911 Kansas vs. Missouri football game. Brewer left Missouri at the end of the 1917 school year to serve in World War I and he spent the next year directing training camp activities at universities around the country. He returned to Michigan Agricultural College after the war, in 1922, he coached football at the University Farm in Davis, California, where he compiled a 3–4–2 record. Brewer returned to Missouri in 1923 and was named athletic director and his second tenure as athletic director lasted until 1935. During these twelve years of leadership, he helped oversee the construction of Brewer Fieldhouse, Brewer also coached the Missouri Tigers baseball team one final time from 1933–1934 and finished with a 12–17 record. His final record as Missouris baseball coach was 69–32–3, Brewer remained with the university as a professor until his death. He died on April 16,1953 at the age of 77 in Columbia, list of college football head coaches with non-consecutive tenure Chester Brewer at the College Football Data Warehouse Chester Brewer at College Basketball at Sports-Reference. com
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Gwinn Henry
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Gwinn Henry was an American football player, track athlete, coach, and college athletics administrator. Henry was also the coach of the St. Louis Gunners. Henry was the first head coach at the Howard Payne University in Brownwood, Texas. His coaching record at Howard Payne was 5–7–3, Henry was head coach of the University of Missouri from 1923 to 1931. During his tenure, he compiled a 40–28–9 record, on December 25,1924, he led Missouri against USC at the Los Angeles Christmas Festival, losing by a score of 20–7. Henry also coached at the University of Kansas, University of New Mexico, Henry moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1943 and entered the real estate business. He died there on May 17,1955 at the age of 87, Henry is the grandfather of collegiate track and field coach Pat Henry. Kansas Sports Hall of Fame profile Gwinn Henry at the College Football Data Warehouse
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Don Faurot
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Donald Burrows Faurot was an American football and basketball player, coach, and college athletics administrator best known for his eight-decade association with the University of Missouri. During World War II, Faurot coached the Iowa Pre-Flight Seahawks in 1943 and he was also the head basketball coach at Kirksville State from 1925 to 1934, tallying a mark of 92–74. Faurot was the director at Missouri from 1935 to 1942. He lettered in three sports at Missouri in the early 1920s, in football, as a halfback, basketball and baseball, Faurot is credited with inventing the split-T formation. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1961, the playing surface as Missouris Memorial Stadium was named Faurot Field in his honor in 1972. Faurot was born in Mountain Grove, Missouri on June 23,1902 to parents Frederick W. Faurot and he lost two fingers on his right hand in a boyhood farming accident, yet still became an accomplished multi-sport athlete. Faurots association with the University of Missouri started when he was a boy who would sneak into Rollins Field to watch the Tigers play. He was the eldest of four brothers to win a letter at Missouri. Faurot was a three-sport letterman from 1922 to 1924, a lightweight 145-pound fullback in football, he also captained the basketball team and was an infielder in baseball. He was a member of FarmHouse Fraternity while attending the University of Missouri, after college, Faurot was appointed head coach at Kirksville State Teachers College, where he spent nine years, from 1926 through 1934, with a record of 63 wins,13 losses and 3 ties. From 1932 to 1934, his teams had a 26-0 record, during the run the team was the MIAA champion in 1927,1928,1929,1930,1932,1933 and 1934. He also coached the team to the 1927 MIAA championship. In 1933, he led KSTC to a 26-6 win against Missouri in Columbia and this win, along with his MIAA conference titles in 1933 and 1934 led to the offering of the head coaching position at Missouri following the 1934 season. Even while coaching at Kirksville State, Faurot remained close to Mizzou, as a graduate student in agriculture in 1926, Faurot helped lay the sod for Missouris new Memorial Stadium in 1926. In 1935, Faurot returned to his alma mater as coach and athletic director. At Missouri, he took over a team that had won two games in three years and with the athletic program over $500,000 in debt. His major contributions were two-fold, retiring the $500,000 debt through scheduling Ohio State over 9 of 11 years, more than 60 years later, it is still in vogue today at all levels of football. Several of footballs most notable formations—the Wishbone, Wingbone, Veer or I-attack, in 19 years as the Tiger football coach, Faurots record was 101 wins,79 losses and 10 ties, a record that remained unmatched until current coach Gary Pinkel passed him in 2013
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Chauncey Simpson
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Chauncey Simpson was the interim head football coach at Missouri from 1943 to 1945 while Don Faurot, the standing head coach, served in the Navy during World War II. He compiled a 12–14–2 record including a 40–27 loss to Texas in the 1946 Cotton Bowl Classic, during that time, he also served as the schools track coach. He himself, was a player at Missouri. With Faurots return in 1946 Simpson reverted to his position as an assistant football coach. He was also the institutions long-time golf coach before retiring in the 1960s and he was the younger brother of hurdler and track coach Robert Simpson
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2007 Oklahoma Sooners football team
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The 2007 Oklahoma Sooners football team represented the University of Oklahoma in the 2007 NCAA Division I FBS football season, the 113th season of Sooner football. The team was led by two-time Walter Camp Coach of the Year Award winner, Bob Stoops and they played their homes games at Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium in Norman, Oklahoma. They were a member of the Big 12 Conference. The Sooners finished the season with an 11–2 record while winning their fifth Big 12 title. They received a berth to the Fiesta Bowl, where they lost to the West Virginia Mountaineers. Following the season, Malcolm Kelly and Curtis Lofton were drafted in the 2nd round of the 2008 NFL Draft, Reggie Smith was selected in the 3rd, on July 19, a preseason poll voted on by members of the media that cover the Big 12 was released. The Sooners were chosen to second in the Big 12 South behind Texas. They finished nine votes behind the Longhorns but 44 points above Texas A&M and this poll was released in anticipation of the Big 12 media day which began on July 23,2007. Most publications had the Sooners ranked between five and ten in the preseason, on August 2,2007, Coach Bob Stoops announced at a rally that the names of players would be put back on the teams jerseys. They had been removed in a re-design before the 2006 season, the 2006 season was the last for quarterback Paul Thompson. With his departure came the race for the quarterback of the Oklahoma Sooners. The three players in contention for the coveted spot included true freshman Keith Nichol, redshirt freshman Sam Bradford and they competed throughout the summer and well into fall practice. On August 21,2007, it was announced that Bradford would start the first game of the season. In 2006, the team and the fanbase were stunned when the starting quarterback. Quarterback-turned-wide receiver Paul Thompson was converted back to quarterback and led the Sooners to an 11–3 season capturing the Big 12 Championship, however, the fallout of the Bomar scandal began to affect the team in 2007. The Sooners won the appeal to get back their wins from the 2005 season, National Signing Day was on February 7,2007, and Oklahoma was set to sign many talented high school athletes from around the country. It ended up being a smaller class than usual due to the loss of only a few seniors, in addition to the seniors leaving, running back Adrian Peterson left early for the NFL Draft and three other players were set to be on medical redshirt for the upcoming season. There was some separation in Oklahomas recruiting ranking by the two major recruiting websites, scout. com ranked the Oklahoma recruiting class as the 30th best in the nation, while Rivals. com ranked Oklahoma as the 14th best
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2008 Missouri Tigers football team
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The 2008 Missouri Tigers football team represented the University of Missouri in the 2008 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The team was coached by Gary Pinkel, who returned in his season with Mizzou. Quarterback Chase Daniel returned for his year of eligibility and led the Tigers to a second appearance in the Big 12 Championship Game. The Tigers will have 16 returning starters,10 on defense, redshirt freshman DE John Stull was removed from the team on January 11,2008, after being arrested on drug charges. Following their Cotton Bowl Classic victory, Mizzou landed a number of previously committed recruits from the state of Missouri. QB Blaine Gabbert from Ballwin, MO is the No.1 rated prep player in the state of Missouri, and the Tigers landed him after he had previously committed to Nebraska. According to Rivals rankings, the Tigers also landed WR Wes Kemp, TE Andrew Jones, DE Alden Smith and RB Drew Temple, from out of state, the Tigers landed OT Dan Hoch, who like Gabbert previously committed to Nebraska. Missouri Tigers schedule In a close contest where Missouri held a big lead for most of the game, Illinois cuts it to within 10 near the end but gets no closer. Missouri takes a commanding 42-0 lead over their FCS competition in their best defensive performance of the year, the second half was a mere formality as Missouris backups played the entire second half. Derrick Washington, Jeremy Maclin, and Jeff Wolfert scored for Missouri, Chase Daniel passed to Jared Perry for 27 yards for a 2nd-quarter touchdown. Brett Jaekle kicked a goal for Nevada, followed by Washingtons 2-yard touchdown for Missouri. Maclin caught a pass from Daniel for Missouri, followed by a Kaepernick pass to Marko Mitchell for a Nevada touchdown, Daniel passed to Maclin for a 49-yard touchdown, Tommy Saunders passed to Chase Coffman for a 32-yard touchdown and then Chase Paton rushed for a 3-yard touchdown. Jeff Wolfert kicked a 24-yard field goal for Missouri, Missouri looked a bi flat at times against Buffalo but still won in commanding fashion. Chase Daniel threw three passes, Derrick Washington ran for 139 yards and scored three times, as Missouri mopped up Nebraska for their first road win against the Cornhuskers in 30 years. The Tigers never had to punt all game, the 35-point defeat was the Huskers most lopsided home loss in 53 years. The two players combined for 582 yards total offense, both Young and Smith led their respective team in rushing yards. Young had 108 rushing yards while Smith had 57, Young had 236 passing yards compared to Smiths 181. Texas won the game 51–20 to extend its series lead over Missouri to 15–5, the two teams did not face each other in 2006 or 2007
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2008 Oklahoma Sooners football team
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The 2008 Oklahoma Sooners football team represented the University of Oklahoma in the 2008 NCAA Division I FBS football season, the 114th season of Sooner football. The team was led by two-time Walter Camp Coach of the Year Award winner, Bob Stoops and they played their homes games at Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium in Norman, Oklahoma. The Sooners finished the season with a 12-1 record while winning their sixth Big 12 title. They were invited to the BCS National Championship Game, where they lost to the Florida Gators, Oklahoma scored 716 points during the course of their entire season, setting an NCAA Division I record for most points scored in a single season. Jarboe could have faced expulsion under school policy for these felony charges, already on thin ice for the weapons possession, he was kicked off the team in June for making a violent rap video on YouTube that described him carrying and using a gun. Prior to the season, several changes were made to the Oklahoma coaching staff, co-offensive coordinator Kevin Sumlin took the head coaching position at the University of Houston. Defensive coordinator Brent Venables was mentioned as a candidate for the opening at the University of Arkansas before it went to Bobby Petrino. Offensive Coordinator Kevin Wilson interviewed and was considered a finalist for the opening at the University of Southern Mississippi and that opening ended up going to Wilsons counterpart at Oklahoma State University, Larry Fedora. Oklahoma came into the season ranked #4 in both the Coaches and AP Poll, in the first game between Chattanooga and Oklahoma, Sam Bradford threw for 183 yards and two touchdowns, and RB Chris Brown ran for three scores. Only an hour-long rainstorm could slow down the Sooners in a 57–2 victory against Chattanooga, the Sooners converted their first seven possessions into touchdowns and led 50–0 before a thunderstorm caused a lightning delay that extended halftime by 1 hour and 12 minutes. UTC, which would go on to only one win in the entire season. Chattanooga was held to just two first downs the entire game, redshirt freshman wide receiver Ryan Broyles, playing his first game as a Sooner, had the most productive receiver debut in school history, with seven catches for 141 yards and a touchdown. Oklahoma gave up a return for a touchdown in the third quarter that brought the Bearcats within eight. On Oklahomas first drive, QB Sam Bradford threw a 13-yard touchdown pass to Juaquin Iglesias, Washington scored only twice in the game, losing 55–14. Bradford went 18 of 21 while throwing for 304 yards, five touchdowns, Oklahoma never turned the ball over while Washington fumbled it three times, Oklahoma recovering all three times. TCU had beaten Oklahoma the last two times they had met, the most recent being in 2005, where a #7 ranked Oklahoma was upset by an unranked TCU in the season opener, 10–17. The game started with Sam Bradford throwing two passes in the first quarter, one to Juaquin Iglesias and the other Manuel Johnson. Johnson ended the game with three touchdowns and 206 receiving yards on just five receptions, becoming the first Oklahoma player to have 200+ receiving yards in a game
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2010 Missouri Tigers football team
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The 2010 Missouri Tigers football team represented the University of Missouri in the 2010 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The team was coached by Gary Pinkel, who returned for his season with Mizzou. The team began the season fresh off their fifth straight bowl appearance, the team hired a new public address announcer, Randy Moehlman. Michael Egnew, was named to the 1st-Team All-American list and he became the third MU tight end to win that honor in the last four years. The previous two were Martin Rucker and Chase Coffman, the Tigers finished the regular season with a 10-2 record and faced the Iowa Hawkeyes in the Insight Bowl, which they lost by a score of 27–24. In early August 2010, the team voted their star running back Derrick Washington team captain, Washington had led the team in all rushing categories in each of the previous two seasons. He dropped out of school shortly afterwards, and was convicted of sexual assault a year later. All 23 signed on February 3, 2010-11 Schedule The October 23 game against Oklahoma played host to ESPNs College GameDay, a first for the program, and drew a new record crowd of 18,000 for the show. Coaching staff from,2010 Mizzou Football Roster - Coaches, gahn McGaffie was named the special teams player-of-the-week. Gabbert finished 30 of 42 for 308 yards and a score, in the fourth quarter, he completed 8-of-9 passes for 95 yards and one touchdown. McGaffie returned the opening kickoff 86 yards for a touchdown and it was the first kickoff return for a touchdown for Mizzou since Jeremy Maclin did it in 2008. Its the first time Mizzou has returned the kickoff for a touchdown since Roger Wehrli went 96 yards for a score against Iowa State in 1967. Its the first time Gabbert has been named player-of-the-week this season and this is the first time Missouri has started 7-0 since 1960. Roy Helu Jr. rushes for a school-record 307 yards, Nebraska QB Taylor Martinez hobbled Blaine Gabbert struggles as No, Missouri has never played better defensively in a Big 12 game—and now the Tigers might never play another Big 12 game. In a 35-7 victory over Kansas on Saturday, the Tigers held their archrivals to 141 yards, in the 119th meeting between these programs, Missouri evened the all-time series at 55-55-9. The Tigers have won four of the last five, Missouri wrapped up a 10-win season for the fourth time in school history and third under coach Gary Pinkel. @ Tempe, AZ Marcus Coker runs for 219, Micah Hyde returns INT to fuel Iowa rally Statistics from, archived from the original on January 1,2011. Missouri Tigers football under Gary Pinkel
