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Big Ten Conference
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The Big Ten Conference, formerly Western Conference and Big Nine Conference, is the oldest Division I collegiate athletic conference in the United States. The conference includes the public university in each of 11 states stretching from New Jersey to Nebraska. The Big Ten Conference was established in 1895 when Purdue University president James H, in 1905, the conference was officially incorporated as the Intercollegiate Conference Athletic Association. Big Ten member institutions are predominantly major flagship research universities with large financial endowments, large student enrollment is also a hallmark of Big Ten universities, as 12 of the 14 members feature enrollments of 30,000 or more students. Northwestern University, one of just two members with a total enrollment of fewer than 30,000 students, is the lone private university among Big Ten membership. Collectively, Big Ten universities educate more than 520,000 total students and have 5.7 million living alumni, Big Ten universities engage in $9.3 billion in funded research each year. Big Ten universities are members of the Big Ten Academic Alliance. In 2014–2015, members generated more than $10 billion in research expenditures, Johns Hopkins University was invited in 2012 to join the Big Ten as an associate member participating in mens lacrosse only. In 2015, it was accepted as an associate member in womens lacrosse. Notre Dame is scheduled to join the Big Ten in 2017 as a member in mens ice hockey. Notes Notes Notes The University of Chicago was a co-founder of the conference, lake Forest College attended the original 1895 meeting that led to the formation of the conference, but did not join it. Full members Full members Sport Affiliate Other Conference Other Conference The Big Ten Conference sponsors championship competition in 14 mens and 14 womens NCAA sanctioned sports, Notes, * Notre Dame will join the Big Ten in the 2017–18 school year as an affiliate member in mens ice hockey. It continues to field its other sports in the ACC except in football where it will continue to compete as an independent, ° Johns Hopkins joined the Big Ten in 2014 as an affiliate member in mens lacrosse, with womens lacrosse to follow in 2016. Ohio State and Penn State, like most NCAA fencing schools, have coed teams,2, Mens rowing, whether heavyweight or lightweight, is not governed by the NCAA, but instead by the Intercollegiate Rowing Association. Rutgers Mens Rowing was downgraded to Club status in 2008,3, Unlike rifle, pistol is not an NCAA-governed sport. 4, Rifle is technically a mens sport, but mens, womens, Ohio State fields a coed team. The eligibility of student-athletes was one of the topics of discussion. The Intercollegiate Conference of Faculty Representatives was founded at a meeting on February 8,1896
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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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NCAA Division I
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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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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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West Lafayette, Indiana
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West Lafayette is directly across the Wabash River from its sister city, Lafayette. As of the 2010 census, its population was 29,796 and it is the most densely populated city in Indiana and is home to Purdue University. Augustus Wylie laid out a town in 1836 in the Wabash River floodplain south of the present Levee, due to regular flooding of the site, Wylies town was never built. The present city was formed in 1888 by the merger of the adjacent suburban towns of Chauncey, Oakwood, the three towns had been small suburban villages which were directly adjacent to one another. Kingston was laid out in 1855 by Jesse B, Chauncey was platted in 1860 by the Chauncey family of Philadelphia, wealthy land speculators. Chauncey and Kingston formed a government in 1866 which selected the name Chauncey. The new town of Chauncey remained a suburban village until Purdue University opened in 1869. In 1871 Chauncey voted to be annexed by Lafayette because it was unable to provide the infrastructure, Lafayette voted against annexing Chauncey because of the high cost of the many improvements that the village lacked. In May 1888, the town of Chauncey voted to change its name to West Lafayette after a petition signed by 152 electors, by that time, the growth of the university was fueling the growth of the little town. The address of Purdue University was given as Lafayette, Indiana until well into the twentieth century, West Lafayette never gained a railroad depot and lagged several years behind Lafayette in the establishment of municipal infrastructure and services. Today, West Lafayette has established itself as a city, with independent services and unique neighborhoods distinct from those of its sister city. This expansion also included a section of the US Highway 231 corridor that was previously part of unincorporated Tippecanoe County. The city of West Lafayette has its share of non-profits. West Lafayette lies in central Tippecanoe County and overlooks the Wabash River, most of the city lies in eastern Wabash Township, though a small portion on the northeast side extends into Tippecanoe Township. Elevations range from slightly over 500 feet near the river to more than 720 feet in parts of the city near U. S. Route 52. According to the 2010 census, West Lafayette has an area of 7.63 square miles. As of the census of 2010, there were 29,796 people,11,945 households, the population density was 3,884.0 inhabitants per square mile. There were 12,591 housing units at a density of 1,652.4 per square mile
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Indiana
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Indiana /ɪndiˈænə/ is a U. S. state located in the midwestern and Great Lakes regions of North America. Indiana is the 38th largest by area and the 16th most populous of the 50 United States and its capital and largest city is Indianapolis. Indiana was admitted to the United States as the 19th U. S. state on December 11,1816, before becoming a territory, varying cultures of indigenous peoples and historic Native Americans inhabited Indiana for thousands of years. Indiana has an economy with a gross state product of $298 billion in 2012. Indiana has several areas with populations greater than 100,000. The states name means Land of the Indians, or simply Indian Land and it also stems from Indianas territorial history. On May 7,1800, the United States Congress passed legislation to divide the Northwest Territory into two areas and named the section the Indiana Territory. In 1816, when Congress passed an Enabling Act to begin the process of establishing statehood for Indiana, a resident of Indiana is officially known as a Hoosier. The first inhabitants in what is now Indiana were the Paleo-Indians, divided into small groups, the Paleo-Indians were nomads who hunted large game such as mastodons. They created stone tools made out of chert by chipping, knapping and flaking, the Archaic period, which began between 5000 and 4000 BC, covered the next phase of indigenous culture. The people developed new tools as well as techniques to cook food, such new tools included different types of spear points and knives, with various forms of notches. They made ground-stone tools such as axes, woodworking tools. During the latter part of the period, they built mounds and middens. The Archaic period ended at about 1500 BC, although some Archaic people lived until 700 BC, afterward, the Woodland period took place in Indiana, where various new cultural attributes appeared. During this period, the people created ceramics and pottery, an early Woodland period group named the Adena people had elegant burial rituals, featuring log tombs beneath earth mounds. In the middle portion of the Woodland period, the Hopewell people began developing long-range trade of goods, nearing the end of the stage, the people developed highly productive cultivation and adaptation of agriculture, growing such crops as corn and squash. The Woodland period ended around 1000 AD, the Mississippian culture emerged, lasting from 1000 until the 15th century, shortly before the arrival of Europeans. During this stage, the people created large urban settlements designed according to their cosmology, with mounds and plazas defining ceremonial
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Mackey Arena
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Mackey Arena is located in West Lafayette, Indiana. Part of the Purdue University campus, it is home to the basketball teams. The arena opened in 1967 as a replacement for Lambert Fieldhouse, originally named Purdue Arena, it was renamed in 1972 to honor Purdue alumnus and long time athletic director Guy Red Mackey. On December 12,1997, the floor was renamed Keady Court in honor of longtime mens coach Gene Keady. The circular arena, similar to several built in the 1960s, seats 14,846, for a $99.5 million project that extends from the outer edges of the arena north along Northwestern Avenue to Cherry Lane. A three-level structure is planned north of Mackey and currently is being referred to as the Student-Athlete Development Center and its highlights include, A sports medicine facility approximately three and a half to four times larger than the current area in Mackey. A strength and weight training facility approximately four times larger than the existing Intercollegiate Athletic Facility weight room, an oversized basketball practice facility, including Danielle and Brian Cardinal Court and three breakout shooting areas. The Drew and Britney Brees Student Athlete Academic Center, towards which the couple donated $2M in the fall of 2007, in addition, the lower seating sections on the east side will be modified to allow for some premium seats, with club seats and loge seats provided. A limited number of premium courtside seats will be available in the west pit area, accessible seating will increase approximately six times. Two club spaces will be created, one for fans on the west side. Mackey Arena at PurdueSports. com Mackey Arena Profile from the Lafayette Journal & Courier Mackey Arena Renovation Page
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Boilermaker Special
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The Boilermaker Special is the official mascot of Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. It resembles a Victorian-era railroad locomotive and is built on a truck chassis and it is operated and maintained by the student members of the Purdue Reamer Club. Purdue University is a land-grant university created through the Morrill Act of 1862, in the 1890s, Purdue became a leader in the research of railway technology. For many years Purdue operated the Schenectady No,1, and later the Schenectady No. 2, on a dynamometer in a laboratory on the West Lafayette campus. These were 4-4-0 type steam locomotives manufactured by the Baldwin Locomotive Works of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the Schenectady was a classic Victorian-era design similar in construction to the Western and Atlantic Railroad No.3. Purdue even operated its own railroad to connect the campus powerplant to a rail line. In the 1930s the dynamometer was decommissioned and the Schenectady No.2 was retired as the industry in the United States converted from steam to diesel-electric locomotives. For many years Purdue did not have a mascot, in 1939, Purdue student Israel Selkowitz suggested the school adopt an official mascot to represent Purdues engineering heritage. He originally proposed a mechanical man, after much debate, it was decided to build a locomotive on an automobile chassis. This choice allowed the mascot to build on Purdues engineering and railroading heritage, the Boilermaker nickname came about during the early years of Purdue football. There had been rumors the university enrolled burly boilermakers from the Monon Railroad shops in Lafayette, when a railroad operated an extra train independent of the scheduled timetable, it was known as a special. Thus, the trains which carried Purdues sporting teams and their fans to other cities for athletic contests were known as Boilermaker Specials, the Boilermaker Special I was introduced in 1940. The locomotive body was constructed by the Baldwin Locomotive Works and installed on a 1939 Champion automobile chassis donated by the Studebaker Corporation, the chassis had a 6-cylinder in-line gasoline engine and a three-speed manual transmission. The gearshift was on the steering column, the cab contained a single bench seat for the driver and one passenger. Although the coal tender area was not designed for passengers, two passengers could sit on top the wheel fenders, the cab had two sheetmetal doors, one on each side, each of which had a window. Although the cab had a windshield, the back only had an opening with no glass. This meant the wind and weather would enter the cab from the back, the bell and the whistle on the boiler are believed to have been donated by the Monon Railroad shops in Lafayette
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Purdue Pete
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Purdue Pete is a mascot of Purdue University. Despite his visible and constant on-field presence at Purdue sporting events, the official mascot of Purdue is the Boilermaker Special. Purdue Pete was first designed as a logo by the University Bookstore in 1940 and they would put it on their products and portray him dressed up in different clothes for the different majors. He got the Purdue part of his name from Purdue University, the owners of the bookstores gave him the name “Pete”, yet no one officially knows why this was chosen to be his name. He was given an identity in 1956 as he came out. Over the years, the appearance of Purdue Pete has gone under several changes as well as several minor changes. His original head was made of paper-mâché, pasted onto a wire frame. This was very inconvenient for the person who would be underneath because it would limit his movements, yet he was expected to move around. This head was changed to a giant fiberglass head where the person inside would use a harness to support it and this was impractical due to the sheer size of it. In the 1980s, Purdue Pete acquired the appearance he is now associated with, proposals to switch to a soft-sculpture costume were rejected in 2006 and 2011. From 1997 to 2007, Purdue Pete had a sidekick named Rowdy, Rowdy was a ten-foot-tall inflatable mascot who represented a young future Boilermaker. He was the idea of Jan Winger, Purdues administrative assistant of athletic public relations, Purdue Pete’s uniforms are old gold and black, which are Purdue’s school colors. The hammer that Purdue Pete carries is an icon that signifies him as a boilermaker, back in the days of the boilermakers, they would use large mallets to mold the steel into boilers or pipes or even bridges. The hammer is also a symbol of strength, power, Purdue Pete’s hardhat only helps solidify this image in the minds of anyone who sees him. Purdue Pete being identified as a boilermaker helps connect him with his fellow Purdue Boilermakers in the stands, Purdue Pete’s giant head could be something used to draw attention to him, which helps him get the fans pumped up. Purdue Pete could be seen as a symbol and he is recognized as being a Boilermaker. Yet, underneath his big, iconic head, he is just a student and this is symbolic of the fact that we are also Boilermaker on the inside. Since we can’t see who is underneath, it allows the audience to put themselves in his place, the current head utilizes a fiberglass frame, but is much smaller and lighter than previous designs because it is made primarily of a composite
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Hail Purdue!
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Hail Purdue. is the official fight song of Purdue University. The lyrics were written in about 1912 by James Morrison, the completed song was published in 1913, initially titled Purdue War Song, and was dedicated to the Purdue Varsity Glee Club, of which Wotawa was a student member and director. During the rest following the lyric, Thus we raise our song anew, it is popular to raise one fist and shout and this chant was invented by Arnette Tiller early in her husbands time as Purdues head football coach. The Purdue All-American Marching Band interjects, Fire up, at the same point in the song, as they have traditionally done since the mid-1970s. Hail Purdue. and soundclips to other songs performed by the Purdue University Bands
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College athletics in the United States
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College athletics in the United States or college sports in the United States refers primarily to sports and athletic competition organized and funded by institutions of tertiary education. In the United States, college athletics is a two-tiered system, the first tier includes the sports that are sanctioned by one of the collegiate sport governing bodies. The major sanctioning organizations include the National Collegiate Athletic Association, the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics, the second tier includes all intramural and recreational sports clubs, which are available to a larger portion of the student body. College sports originated in ancient Greece, the average university will sponsor at least twenty different sports and offer a wide variety of intramural sports as well. In total, there are approximately 400,000 men and women student-athletes that participate in sanctioned athletics each year, the first organized college sports club was formed in 1843 when Yale University created a boat club. Harvard University then followed in their footsteps, creating a similar boat club a year later, the creation of these organizations set the stage for the first intercollegiate sporting event in the U. S. This event took place in 1852, when the team from Yale competed against the rowing team from Harvard at Lake Winnipesaukee. This marked the beginning of competition and triggered the creation of numerous college athletic organizations. In the late 1850s, bat and ball games had started to become widely known, the first intercollegiate baseball game took place in 1859 between Amherst College and Williams College. The popularity of collegiate baseball increased from this point, and by 1870, in 1879, the first official intercollegiate baseball league was formed. Track and field also grew in popularity during this time, and this competition featured a two-mile race between athletes from Amherst College, Cornell University, and McGill University of Montreal, Canada. The first intercollegiate rugby game took place on May 15,1874, at Cambridge, the first intercollegiate football game between teams from Rutgers College and the College of New Jersey took place on November 6,1869 at College Field in New Brunswick, New Jersey. In addition to the National Collegiate Athletic Association, there are other collegiate multi-sport athletic organizations, during the early 1840s, student-athletes contributed actively to all phases of administration and control. Furthermore, this movement today focuses on the role of sports in the United States rather than the contributions of the student athlete. Academic curricula and requirements affect student athletes, when academic and athletic departments have conflicting aims, problems arise that affect the entire institution. American society values the elitism of academics and athletics in a manner that provokes conflict for participants in both domains, however, the means by which coaches and faculty achieve national reputations can create conflict for student athletes attempting to exist in both environments. Although both aspire to excel, the different measures of excellence for academics and athletics necessitates compromise by those who are placed in both settings and this policy, attempted by a large number of colleges, works for only a few. College administrators have the challenge of balancing university values while maximizing the revenues generated by their athletic department, to maintain financial sustainability, several athletic directors have stated that the elimination of men’s non-revenue programs is the only way to balance their athletic budgets
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Purdue University
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Purdue University is a public research university located in West Lafayette, Indiana and is the main campus of the Purdue University system. The university was founded in 1869 after Lafayette businessman John Purdue donated land and money to establish a college of science, technology, the first classes were held on September 16,1874, with six instructors and 39 students. The main campus in West Lafayette offers more than 200 majors for undergraduates, over 70 master’s and doctoral programs, in addition, Purdue has 18 intercollegiate sports teams and more than 900 student organizations. In 1865, the Indiana General Assembly voted to take advantage of the Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act of 1862, communities throughout the state offered their facilities and money to bid for the location of the new college. Popular proposals included the addition of a department at Indiana State University or at what is now Butler University. By 1869, Tippecanoe County’s offer included $150,000 from Lafayette business leader and philanthropist John Purdue, $50,000 from the county, and 100 acres of land from local residents. On May 6,1869, the General Assembly established the institution in Tippecanoe County as Purdue University, classes began at Purdue on September 16,1874, with six instructors and 39 students. Professor John S. Hougham was Purdue’s first faculty member and served as acting president between the administrations of presidents Shortridge and White, a campus of five buildings was completed by the end of 1874. Purdue issued its first degree, a Bachelor of Science in chemistry, in 1875, emerson E. White, the university’s president from 1876 to 1883, followed a strict interpretation of the Morrill Act. He intended not only to students for industrial work, but also to prepare them to be good citizens. Part of White’s plan to distinguish Purdue from classical universities included an attempt to ban fraternities. This ban was overturned by the Indiana Supreme Court and led to White’s resignation. The next president, James H. Smart, is remembered for his call in 1894 to rebuild the original Heavilon Hall one brick higher after it had destroyed by a fire. Purdue’s engineering laboratories included testing facilities for a locomotive and a Corliss steam engine, one of the most efficient engines of the time. The School of Agriculture was sharing its research with farmers throughout the state with its cooperative extension services, programs in education and home economics were soon established, as well as a short-lived school of medicine. By 1925 Purdue had the largest undergraduate engineering enrollment in the country, President Edward C. Elliott oversaw a campus building program between the world wars. Inventor, alumnus, and trustee David E. Ross coordinated several fundraisers, donated lands to the university, ross’s gifts and fundraisers supported such projects as Ross–Ade Stadium, the Memorial Union, a civil engineering surveying camp, and Purdue University Airport. Purdue Airport was the country’s first university-owned airport and the site of the country’s first college-credit flight training courses, amelia Earhart joined the Purdue faculty in 1935 as a consultant for these flight courses and as a counselor on women’s careers
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Wabash College
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Wabash College is a small, private, liberal arts college for men, located in Crawfordsville, Indiana, United States. Founded in 1832 by several Dartmouth College graduates and Midwestern leaders, Wabash is one of the countrys three remaining male-only liberal arts colleges. The college was initially named The Wabash Teachers Seminary and Manual Labor College, many of the founders were Presbyterian ministers, yet nevertheless believed that Wabash should be independent and non-sectarian. Among these ministers was Caleb Mills, who became Wabash Colleges first faculty member, dedicated to education in the then-primitive Mississippi Valley area, he would come to be known as the father of the Indiana public education system. Elihu Baldwin, the first president of the college, served from 1835 until 1840 and he came from a church in New York City and accepted the presidency even though he knew that Wabash was at that time threatened with bankruptcy. After his death, he was succeeded by Charles White, a graduate of Dartmouth College and the brother-in-law of Edmund O. Hovey, a professor at the college. Joseph F. Tuttle, who became president of Wabash College in 1862 and served for 30 years, Gronert described him an eloquent preacher, a sound administrator and an astute handler of public relations. He is the namesake of Tuttle Grade School in Crawfordsville and Tuttle Junior High School, gregory D. Hess became the 16th President of Wabash College July 1,2013. Prior to coming to Wabash, Dr. Hess had been Dean of the Faculty and Vice President of Academic Affairs at Claremont McKenna College at Claremont, California. During World War II, Wabash College was one of 131 colleges and universities offered students a path to a Navy commission as part of the V-12 Navy College Training Program. In the early 1900s, the College closed its Preparatory School, in 1996, Wabash became the first college in America to stage Tony Kushners Angels in America. Wabash Colleges curriculum is divided into three, Division I, Division II, and Division III representing the sciences, humanities and arts. Wabash offers 24 major programs and several additional minors, seniors at Wabash College take a comprehensive exam in their major subject. Over three days, there are two days of exams and one day of oral exams. The two days of written exams differ by major, but the exams are relatively uniform. A senior meets with three professors, one from his major, another from his minor and a professor who represents the rest of his academic career. Over the course of an hour a senior answers questions from the professors which can relate to anything during his studies at Wabash, a senior must pass the examinations in order to be eligible for a degree. Rhyneship was an orientation program that took first semester freshmen, rhynes
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Crawfordsville, Indiana
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Crawfordsville is a city in Union Township, Montgomery County, Indiana, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 15,915, the city is the county seat of Montgomery County. It is home to Wabash College, which was ranked by Forbes as #12 in the United States for undergraduate studies in 2008, as of 2016, Crawfordsville has twelve properties listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Three of the properties are currently museums, Gen. Lew Wallace Study, Henry S. Lane House, two of the properties are historic districts, Crawfordsville Commercial Historic District, and Elston Grove Historic District. Two listings are active churches, Bethel AME Church of Crawfordsville and they returned a decade later to find at least one cabin built. In 1821, William and Jennie Offield had built a cabin on a creek, later to be known as Offield Creek. Major Whitlock laid out the town in March 1823, Crawfordsville was named in honor of Colonel William H. Crawford, a native Virginian who was the cabinet officer who had issued Whitlocks commission as Receiver of Public Lands. According to a diary of Sanford C, cox, one of the first schoolmasters in the area, in 1824, Crawfordsville is the only town between Terre Haute and Fort Wayne. Maj. Ristine keeps tavern in a log house and Jonathan Powers has a little grocery. There are two stores, Smiths near the office, and Issac C. It was successfully incorporated as a town in 1834, following a failed three years earlier. In November 1832, Wabash College was founded in Crawfordsville as The Wabash Teachers Seminary, on December 18,1833, the Crawfordsville Record carried a paid announcement of the opening of this school. Today, it is one of three remaining all-male liberal arts colleges in the country, and has a student body of around 900. Crawfordsville grew in size and amenities, adding such necessities as a bank and it gained status as a city in 1865, when Indiana granted its charters. In 1862, Joseph F. Tuttle, after whom Tuttle Grade School was named in 1906 and Tuttle Junior High School was named in 1960, became President of Wabash College and he was an eloquent preacher, a sound administrator and an astute handler of public relations. Joseph Tuttle, together with his administrators, worked to improve relations in Crawfordsville between Town and Gown, several future and past Civil War generals lived in Crawfordsville at different times. Generals Lew Wallace and Mahlon D. Manson spent most their lives in the town, generals Edward Canby and John P. Hawkins spent some of their youth in Crawfordsville. Carrington lived in the town after the war, and taught science at Wabash College
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Monon Railroad
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The Monon Railroad, also known as the Chicago, Indianapolis, and Louisville Railway from 1897 to 1956, was an American railroad that operated almost entirely within the state of Indiana. The Monon was merged into the Louisville and Nashville Railroad in 1971, in 1970 it operated 540 miles of road on 792 miles of track, that year it reported 1320 million ton-miles of revenue freight and zero passenger-miles. 1847, The New Albany and Salem Railroad is organized with James Brooks as president,1854, The NA&S trackage stretches from the Ohio River to the Great Lakes. 1859, The overextended and struggling NA&S is renamed the Louisville, New Albany, april 30,1865, The LNA&C becomes one of twenty railroads to haul Abraham Lincolns funeral train, from Lafayette, Indiana to Michigan City, Indiana. 1873, The LNA&C Railroad is reorganized as the Louisville, New Albany,1881, The LNA&C consolidates with the Chicago and Indianapolis Air Line Railway, and the trackage of the new division is soon extended to reach into its namesake cities. July 1,1897, The LNA&C is reorganized as the Chicago, Indianapolis,1932, The 300 pound Monon Bell is first presented as the trophy of the annual football matchup between DePauw University and Wabash College. 1946, John W. Barriger III becomes President of the Monon, june 29,1949, Final day of steam locomotive service, as the Monon becomes one of the first Class I railroads to fully convert to diesel motive power. January 11,1956, The CI&L officially adopts its longtime nickname, Monon,1959, The Monons passenger service between Chicago, Illinois and Indianapolis, Indiana is discontinued. By 1965, only the Thoroughbred remained, with its single daily roundtrip from Chicago to Louisville, september 30,1967, Final day of regularly scheduled passenger train service on the Monon. July 31,1971, The Monon is merged into the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, josephs College in Rensselaer, Indiana The university traffic was important enough to the Monon that the railroad used the schools colors on its rolling stock. From Monon, the mainlines reached out to Chicago, Louisville, Indianapolis, in Chicago the Monons passenger trains served Dearborn Station. Branches connected the Louisville mainline to Victoria, Indiana and French Lick, the Monons main line ran down the middle of streets in several cities, notably Lafayette, New Albany, and Bedford. It also installed a home grown warning signal at many grade crossings. A sign below or to the side of the signal read, beginning in the north, Section One was from the Indiana line to Lafayette, passing through the Monon switch in Monon. As a primary route, it connected to Section Four running between Lafayette and Bloomington. This route reached the Ohio River over Section Five from Bloomington to New Albany, from this southern route, Sections Six and Seven were spurs to the west. Section Six served the coal fields between Midland and Clay City, connecting to the line at Wallace Junction, just south of Cloverdale. Section Seven provided passenger service to the hotels in West Baden and French Lick
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Purdue Boilermakers baseball
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The Purdue Boilermakers baseball team is the varsity intercollegiate baseball program of Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, United States. The programs first season was in 1888, and it has been a member of the NCAA Division I Big Ten Conference since the start of the 1906 season and its home venue is Alexander Field, located on Purdues campus. Mark Wasikowski is the head coach starting in the 2017 season. The program has appeared in 2 NCAA Tournaments and it has won one conference tournament championship and 2 regular season conference titles. As of the start of the 2017 Major League Baseball season,23 former Boilermakers have appeared in Major League Baseball. The programs first season of play was 1888, and the team played without a coach until 1892. Also in 1892, the program playing at newly dedicated home venue Stuart Field. The first game at Stuart was against Butler on April 16,1892, after Phillips two-year tenure as head coach, the program played without a head coach until 1900, when W. H. Fox assumed the position for two seasons. The program then had different head coaches until Hugh Nicol began a nine-year tenure in 1906. Nicols first season was also the programs first as a member of the Big Nine Conference, in 1909, Purdue won its first Big Ten Championship. Future Major League Baseball player Walt Tragesser played on the 1909 team, Nicol left the head coaching position following the 1914 season, and B. P. Pattison coached the team for the next two seasons. In 1916, Pattisons final season, Purdue had an 8–4 record in Big Ten games, however, Purdue had generally struggled in Big Ten games since joining the conference and continued to do so. The Boilermakers had a conference record only 11 times from 1917–1978. In that span, the team opened two new home venues, on April 6,1940, the team defeated Wabash College 7–4 in its first game at Ross–Ade Field, later renamed Lambert Field. On April 14,1965, the Boilermakers lost 4–2 to Notre Dame in the teams first game at the modern Lambert Field, both Old Lambert Field and the modern Lambert Field were named for Ward Lambert, head coach of the program for 19 seasons. In 1978, Dave Alexander became the head coach. When the Big Ten split into two, five-team divisions in 1981, the team finished 2nd behind Michigan, Purdues best conference finish since 1928. As a result of the finish, the team qualified for the inaugural Big Ten Tournament
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Purdue Boilermakers women's basketball
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The Purdue Boilermakers womens basketball team is a college basketball program that competes in NCAA Division I and the Big Ten Conference. Purdue is rich in tradition and history, holding the record for Big Ten Championships, the Boilermakers have appeared in the NCAA Final Four three times, and won the NCAA National Championship in 1999. The Boilermakers share a rivalry with the Indiana Hoosiers, of which Purdue owns a 52-27 series lead. In 1975, womens basketball became a sport at Purdue University. In 1982, the sport was elevated to status, which meant more money was available. Under Coach Lin Dunn, Purdue qualified for its first NCAA Tournament game in 1989, Ten years later, Purdue won its first national championship by beating Duke University in the title game. Sharon Versyp, a former Purdue standout, was introduced as the coach at the start of the 2006 season
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Purdue Boilermakers men's basketball
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The Purdue Boilermakers basketball team is a college basketball program that competes in NCAA Division I and is a member of the Big Ten Conference. Purdue basketball has the most Big Ten Championships with 23, the Boilermakers have reached two NCAA Tournament Final Fours. The 1931–32 team was named the national champion by the Helms Athletic Foundation. Purdue has sent more than 30 players to the NBA, including two overall No.1 picks in the NBA draft, Purdue shares a traditional rivalry with in-state foe Indiana University, and holds a 117–89 all-time series lead. The history of Purdue basketball dates back to 1896 with their first game against the Lafayette YMCA, in the 1902–03 season, head coach C. I. Freeman, in his season, led them to an undefeated 8–0 record. Upon conclusion of the season, the university recognized the popularity of the sport, the Boilermakers began play in the Big Ten Conference three years later, with its first championship coming in 1911 under the direction of Ralph Jones. In 1917, Ward Piggy Lambert, a basketball player at Wabash College, was named head coach of the Boilermakers. What followed was one of the most dominant eras of Purdue Basketball on the conference, under Lambert, Purdue became a front-runner in the development of the fast-paced game as it is today. Lambert compiled a record of 371–152, a.709 winning percentage. His 228 wins in Big Ten play have been bested by only Indianas Bob Knight, Lambert won an unprecedented 11 Big Ten Championships, which Bobby Knight later tied for most in conference history. In 1943, the Helms Athletic Foundation retroactively recognized Purdue as its champion for 1932. The Premo-Porretta Power Poll later recognized the Boilermakers as the 1932 national champion as well, Ward Lambert announced his resignation on January 23,1946. That same year and the following under new head coach Mel Taube. Center Paul Hoffman became the only Boiler to be named a First Team-All Big Ten selection four times in 1947, after Mel Taubes four and a half seasons, Ray Eddy, a former player and teammate of John Wooden under Lambert, took over as head coach. In 1955, his team played one of the longest games in basketball history. Schaus led the Boilermakers to the 1974 NIT Championship, becoming the first Big Ten team to capture the NIT title, in the 1978–79 season, new head coach Lee Rose introduced Purdue basketball to a new approach with a slowed-down, controlled style of play. With All-American center Joe Barry Carroll, he led them to the 1979 NIT Finals, in 1980, Gene Keady, the head coach of Western Kentucky and former assistant to Eddie Sutton with the Arkansas Razorbacks, was named the new head coach of the Boilermakers
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Purdue Boilermakers football
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The Purdue Boilermakers football team represents Purdue University in the NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision of college football. Purdue plays its games at Ross–Ade Stadium on the campus of Purdue University in West Lafayette. The head coach of Purdue is Jeff Brohm, the 36th head coach in program history, the Boilermakers compete in the Big Ten Conference as a member of the West Division. Purdue had most recently been a part of the Leaders Division of the Big Ten, with a 598–545–48 record at the conclusion of the 2015 season, Purdue has the 47th-most victories among NCAA FBS programs. Purdue was originally classified as a Major College school in the 1937 season until 1972, Purdue received Division I classification in 1973, becoming a Division I-A program from 1978 to 2006 and an FBS program from 2006 to the present. Of those successful campaigns, Purdue has produced five seasons in its history, going 4–0 in 1891, 8–0 in 1892, 8–0 in 1929, 7–0–1 in 1932. The Boilermakers have won a total of 12 conference championships in their history, eight Big Ten Conference titles, the Purdue University football team traces its origin back to October 29,1887, when its team fell to Butler College by a score of 48-6 in Indianapolis, Indiana. A group of students at Purdue University formed the schools first football team in 1887, albert Berg was hired as the coach. Despite being deaf, Berg was reportedly the only man in the territory with any knowledge of the game, Berg was 23 years old when he became Purdues football coacher. He was paid $1 for each lesson he gave to the newly organized football team and had one week to prepare the team for its first game. The 1887 Purdue team played its game on October 29,1887. Butler soundly defeated Bergs squad by a score of 48–6, after the loss to Butler, Purdue did not field a football team again until 1889. In 1890, Clinton L. Hare became the head football coach at Purdue. He coached the team season to a record of 3–3. Purdue won each of its two games in convincing fashion, shutting out Wabash, 54–0, on October 24 and Illinois, 62–0. They also shut out DePauw in Greencastle, Indiana, 32–0, Purdue suffered its worst loss of the season on November 1 in Ann Arbor, falling to Michigan by a score of 34 to six. With their wins over DePauw and Wabash and their loss to Butler, hares team finished second place in the Indiana Intercollegiate Athletic Association to Butler, who beat all three of their in-state foes and was awarded the state championship. In 1891, Knowlton Ames became the coach for Purdue
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Purdue Boilermakers men's golf
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The Purdue Boilermakers mens golf team represents the Purdue University in the sport of golf. The Boilermakers compete in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association and they are currently led by head coach Rob Bradley. The Purdue Boilermakers mens golf program has won 12 Big Ten Conference championships, the first year of golf at Purdue was in 1921
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Rose Bowl Game
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The Rose Bowl Game is an annual American college football bowl game, usually played on January 1 at the Rose Bowl stadium in Pasadena, California. When New Years Day falls on a Sunday, the game is played on Monday, the Rose Bowl is nicknamed The Granddaddy of Them All because it is the oldest bowl game. It was first played in 1902, and has played annually since 1916. Since 1945, it has been the highest attended college football bowl game and it is a part of the Pasadena Tournament of Roses Associations Americas New Year Celebration, which also includes the historic Rose Parade. Beginning with the 2015 game, the name for sponsorship reasons is the Rose Bowl Game presented by Northwestern Mutual. Vizio was the sponsor from 2012, prior sponsors included AT&T, Sony. In 2015, the game was officially known as the College Football Playoff semifinal at the Rose Bowl Game presented by Northwestern Mutual. In 2002 and 2006, under the Bowl Championship Series system, the Rose Bowl was designated as its championship game, beginning in 2015, the Rose Bowl has been part of the College Football Playoff system and hosts one of its semi-final games every three years. During non-Playoff years, the Rose Bowl reverts to a Pac-12/Big Ten matchup, originally titled the Tournament East–West football game, the first Rose Bowl was played on January 1,1902, starting the tradition of New Years Day bowl games. The football game was added in 1902 to help fund the cost of the Rose Parade, the inaugural game featured Fielding H. Michigan finished the season 11–0 and was crowned the national champion, yost had been Stanfords coach the previous year. The game was so lopsided that for the next 13 years, the Tournament of Roses officials ran chariot races, ostrich races, and other various events instead of football. But, on New Years Day 1916 football returned to stay as The State College of Washington defeated Brown University in the first annual Rose Bowl with that explicit name. Tournament Park was determined to be unsuitable for the larger and larger crowds gathering to watch the game, the Rose Bowl stadium, designed after the Yale Bowl in New Haven, then hosted the first Rose Bowl game in 1923. The name of the stadium was alternatively Tournament of Roses Stadium or Tournament of Roses Bowl, the stadium seating has been reconfigured several times since its original construction in 1922. For many years, the Rose Bowl stadium had the largest football stadium capacity in the United States, the maximum stated seating capacity was 104,594 from 1972 to 1997. Capacity was lowered following the 1998 Rose Bowl, the 2006 Rose Bowl game, which was also the BCS championship game, had a crowd of 93,986, and a crowd of 94,118 saw the 2011 Rose Bowl game between TCU and Wisconsin. The Rose Bowl is also the only BCS bowl game that is held in a non-NFL stadium. S, during the last two years of World War I, teams from military bases met in the Rose Bowl
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National Football League
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The National Football League is a professional American football league consisting of 32 teams, divided equally between the National Football Conference and the American Football Conference. The NFL is one of the four professional sports leagues in North America. The NFLs 17-week regular season runs from the week after Labor Day to the week after Christmas, with each team playing 16 games, the NFL was formed in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association before renaming itself the National Football League for the 1922 season. The NFL agreed to merge with the American Football League in 1966, and the first Super Bowl was held at the end of that season, the merger was completed in 1970. Today, the NFL has the highest average attendance of any sports league in the world and is the most popular sports league in the United States. S. The NFLs executive officer is the commissioner, who has authority in governing the league. The team with the most NFL championships is the Green Bay Packers with thirteen, the current NFL champions are the New England Patriots, who defeated the Atlanta Falcons 34–28 in Super Bowl LI. Another meeting held on September 17,1920 resulted in the renaming of the league to the American Professional Football Association, the league hired Jim Thorpe as its first president, and consisted of 14 teams. Only two of these teams, the Decatur Staleys and the Chicago Cardinals, remain, the first event occurred on September 26,1920 when the Rock Island Independents defeated the non-league St. Paul Ideals 48–0 at Douglas Park. On October 3,1920, the first full week of league play occurred, the following season resulted in the Chicago Staleys controversially winning the title over the Buffalo All-Americans. In 1922, the APFA changed its name to the National Football League, in 1932, the season ended with the Chicago Bears and the Portsmouth Spartans tied for first in the league standings. This method had used since the leagues creation in 1920. The league quickly determined that a game between Chicago and Portsmouth was needed to decide the leagues champion. Playing with altered rules to accommodate the playing field, the Bears won the game 9–0. Fan interest in the de facto championship game led the NFL, beginning in 1933, the 1934 season also marked the first of 12 seasons in which African Americans were absent from the league. The de facto ban was rescinded in 1946, following public pressure, the NFL was always the foremost professional football league in the United States, it nevertheless faced a large number of rival professional leagues through the 1930s and 1940s. Rival leagues included at least three separate American Football Leagues and the All-America Football Conference, on top of regional leagues of varying caliber. Three NFL teams trace their histories to these leagues, including the Los Angeles Rams
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Bob Griese
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Robert Allen Griese is a former American football quarterback who earned All-American honors with the Purdue Boilermakers before being drafted in 1967 by the American Football Leagues Miami Dolphins. Griese led the Dolphins to three consecutive Super Bowl appearances, including two Super Bowl victories, Griese was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame and the Indiana Football Hall of Fame in 1984 and the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1990. He later worked as a commentator for college football on ESPN on ABC. Griese was born in Evansville, Indiana to Ida and Sylverious Slick Griese, Slick owned a plumbing company in Evansville and died in 1955 when Bob was ten years old. Bob played baseball primarily, and excelled as a pitcher and he also starred in basketball and football at Evansvilles Rex Mundi High School. He earned 12 varsity letters for the Monarchs and he led the basketball team to the No.1 ranking in Indiana during the 1962–63 season and a record of 19–3. He scored 900 points in his school career and while being named All-Sectional. The Monarchs were 15–5 during his Junior and Senior seasons, as he was named 1st Team All-City for three seasons, after being recruited by several colleges for football, Bob chose Purdue, where he majored in business management and became a three-sport star. In 1984, Bob was inducted into the Indiana Football Hall of Fame, while at Purdue, Bob became a member of Sigma Chi Fraternity. In college Griese pitched for the team, going 12-1 one season, played guard on the basketball team, and played quarterback, kicker. There were many games where Griese scored every one of Purdues points, as of the beginning of the 2016 season, he ranks #10 in all-time scoring at Purdue, #5 in scoring among non-kickers and #4 among kickers. Griese’s passing skills greatly improved under the tutelage of head coach Jack Mollenkopf, in his junior year at game against the top-ranked Notre Dame, Griese completed 19 of 22 passes as he led the Boilermakers to an upset win. Griese was a two-time All-American at Purdue, finishing at #8 in the 1965 Heisman Trophy race and was the runner-up to Steve Spurrier for the 1966 Heisman Trophy. Purdue finished second in the Big Ten in 1966, and he led the schools first appearance in the Rose Bowl and he was inducted into the Rose Bowl Hall of Fame in 1992. He was also awarded the Big Ten Medal of Honor for excellence in athletics and academics and his sterling college career earned him induction into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1984. Purdue did not have a practice of retiring numbers and instead, on December 11,2014, the Big Ten Network included Griese on The Mount Rushmore of Purdue Football, as chosen by online fan voting. Griese was joined in the honor by Drew Brees, Rod Woodson, Griese was the fourth player selected in the 1967 Common Draft. He was selected by the AFLs Miami Dolphins, Griese recorded 2,005 yards and 15 touchdowns in his rookie year in Miami
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University of Southern California
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The University of Southern California is a private research university founded in 1880 with its main campus in Los Angeles, California. As Californias oldest private university, USC has historically educated a large number of the regions business leaders. In recent decades, the university has also leveraged its location in Los Angeles to establish relationships with research and cultural institutions throughout Asia, an engine for economic activity, USC contributes $8 billion annually to the economy of the Los Angeles metropolitan area and California. For the 2014–15 academic year, there were 18,740 students enrolled in undergraduate programs. USC also has 23,729 graduate and professional students in a number of different programs, including business, law, engineering, social work, and medicine. The university is one of the top fundraising institutions in the world, consistently ranking among the top 3 in external contributions, multiple academic rankings list the University of Southern California as being among the top 25 universities in the United States. With an acceptance rate of 16 percent, USC is also among the most selective academic institutions in the nation. USC maintains a tradition of innovation and entrepreneurship, with alumni having founded companies such as Lucasfilm, Myspace, Salesforce. com, Intuit, Qualcomm, Box, Tinder. As of 2014, the university has produced the fourth largest number of billionaire alumni out of all institutions in the world. USC is home to the world’s most powerful computer, which is presently housed in a super-cooled. The only other commercially available quantum computing system is operated jointly by NASA, USC was also one of the earliest nodes on ARPANET and is the birthplace of the Domain Name System. Other technologies invented at USC include DNA computing, dynamic programming, image compression, VoIP, USC sponsors a variety of intercollegiate sports and competes in the National Collegiate Athletic Association as a member of the Pac-12 Conference. Members of the teams, the Trojans, have won 102 NCAA team championships, ranking them third in the nation. Trojan athletes have won 288 medals at the Olympic games, more than any university in the United States. If USC were a country, its athletes would have received the 12th-most Olympic gold medals in history. In 1969, it joined the Association of American Universities, the University of Southern California was founded following the efforts of Judge Robert M. Hellman. The three donated 308 lots of land to establish the campus and provided the seed money for the construction of the first buildings. Originally operated in affiliation with the Methodist Church, the school mandated from the start that no student would be denied admission because of race, the university is no longer affiliated with any church, having severed formal ties in 1952
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University of Washington
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The University of Washington, commonly referred to as simply Washington, UW, or informally U-Dub, is a public flagship research university in Seattle, Washington, United States. Founded in 1861, Washington is one of the oldest universities on the West Coast, the university has three campuses, the oldest and largest in the University District of Seattle and two others in Tacoma and Bothell. Washington is a member of the Association of American Universities and is ranked among the top 15 universities in the world by a variety of international publications. In athletics, the university competes in the NCAA Division I Pac-12 Conference and its athletic teams are called the Huskies. Seattle was one of several settlements in the mid to late 19th century vying for primacy in the new Washington Territory, in 1854, territorial governor Isaac Stevens recommended the establishment of a university in Washington. Several prominent Seattle-area residents, chief among them Methodist preacher Daniel Bagley and they convinced early founder of Seattle and member of the territorial legislature Arthur A. Denny of the importance of Seattle winning the school. When no site emerged, the legislature, encouraged by Denny, in 1861, scouting began for an appropriate 10 acres site in Seattle to serve as the campus for a new university. Arthur and Mary Denny donated eight acres, and fellow pioneers Edward Lander and Charlie and this tract was bounded by 4th and 6th Avenues on the west and east and Union and Seneca Streets on the north and south. UW opened on November 4,1861, as the Territorial University of Washington, the following year, the legislature passed articles incorporating the University and establishing a Board of Regents. The school struggled initially, closing three times, in 1863 for lack of students, and again in 1867 and 1876 due to shortage of funds. However, Clara Antoinette McCarty Wilt became the first graduate of UW in 1876 when she graduated from UW with a degree in science. By the time Washington entered the Union in 1889, both Seattle and the University had grown substantially, enrollment increased from 30 students to nearly 300, and the relative isolation of the campus had given way to encroaching development. A special legislative committee headed by UW graduate Edmond Meany was created to find a new campus able to serve the growing student population. The committee selected a site on Union Bay northeast of downtown, the university relocated from downtown to the new campus in 1895, moving into the newly built Denny Hall. The regents tried and failed to sell the old campus, the University still owns what is now called the Metropolitan Tract. In the heart of the city, it is among the most valuable pieces of estate in Seattle. The original Territorial University building was torn down in 1908 and its former site houses the Fairmont Olympic Hotel. The sole surviving remnants of UWs first building are four 24-foot, white, hand-fluted cedar and they were salvaged by Edmond S. Meany—one of the Universitys first graduates and the former head of the history department
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University of Arizona
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The University of Arizona is a public research university in Tucson, Arizona, United States. Founded in 1885, the UA was the first university in the Arizona Territory, the university operates two medical schools and is affiliated with the regions only academic medical centers. The university is home to the James E. Rogers College of Law and numerous other nationally ranked graduate. During the 2015-2016 academic year, there was an enrollment of 43,088 students. The University of Arizona is governed by the Arizona Board of Regents, the University of Arizona is one of the elected members of the Association of American Universities and is the only representative from the state of Arizona to this group. Known as the Arizona Wildcats, the teams are members of the Pac-12 Conference of the NCAA. UA athletes have won titles in several sports, most notably mens basketball, baseball. The official colors of the university and its teams are UA Red. After the passage of the Morrill Land-Grant Act of 1862, the push for a university in Arizona grew, the University of Arizona was approved by the Arizona Territorys Thieving Thirteenth Legislature in 1885, which also selected the city of Tucson to receive the appropriation to build the university. Tucson had hoped to receive the appropriation for the mental hospital. Tucson was largely disappointed with receiving what was viewed as an inferior prize. Construction of Old Main, the first building on campus, began on October 27,1887, and classes met for the first time in 1891 with 32 students in Old Main, which is still in use today. Because there were no schools in Arizona Territory, the university maintained separate preparatory classes for the first 23 years of operation. The University of Arizona offers 334 fields of study leading to bachelors, masters, doctoral, academic departments and programs are organized into colleges and schools. Currently, grades are given on a strict 4-point scale with A worth 4, B worth 3, C worth 2, D worth 1 and E worth zero points. In 2004, there were discussions with students and faculty that may lead the UA towards eventual usage of the grading system in future years. As of December 2015, the university uses the 4-points scale. The Center for World University Rankings in 2015 ranked Arizona 68th in the world, the 2015–16 Times Higher Education World University Rankings rated University of Arizona 163rd in the world and the 2016/17 QS World University Rankings ranked it 233rd
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Foster Farms Bowl
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The Foster Farms Bowl is a post-season college football bowl game certified by the NCAA that has been played annually since 2002. The game is sponsored by the Foster Farms poultry company. From 2002 to 2013, the game was played at 40, 800-seat AT&T Park, home of the San Francisco Giants, in San Francisco. Starting in 2014, it has played at Levis Stadium, home of the San Francisco 49ers, in Santa Clara. In 2010, Kraft Foods became the sponsor of the bowl and announced the new name, according to Sports Illustrated, the executive director of the bowl, Gary Cavalli, was paid a $377,475 salary in 2009. Mondelēz International continued to support the game and the program related with Feeding America in 2013, as of August 2014, the bowls official website listed the games name as the San Francisco Bowl once again. Because AT&T Park was not normally used for football, the arrangement of the field required both teams to be on the same sideline, separated by a barrier at the 50-yard line. The Fight Hunger Bowl had a contract to host the Pac-12s sixth-place team during the 2010 through 2013 seasons, there were multiple contracts that determined the opponent. In 2011, the Pac-12 teams opponent was Illinois, replacing Army, which did not achieve bowl eligibility, in 2012, it was Navy, and in 2013, it was BYU. Had these teams not qualified for bowl eligibility, they would have been replaced by teams from the Atlantic Coast Conference or the Mid-American Conference, beginning with the 2014 season, teams come from the Pac-12 and Big Ten conferences. List of college bowl games List of Foster Farms Bowl broadcasters Notes Official website
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Cecil Isbell
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Cecil Frank Isbell was an American football player and coach. He played five years in the National Football League with the Green Bay Packers and he retired after the 1942 season to become an assistant coach at his alma mater, Purdue University, and the following year became its head coach for three seasons. Isbell was the coach of the Baltimore Colts of the All-America Football Conference from 1947 to 1949. He then became an assistant under head coach Curly Lambeau. When Lambeau resigned late in the 1951 season, Isbell was the head coach for the final two games, which they split. Isbells pro head coaching record was 10–23–1 and he was hired as an assistant coach with the Dallas Texans if the NFL in 1952. Isbell was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a player in 1967, born in Houston, Texas, Isbell was the second son of Adger and Sarah Isbell. Isbell attended Sam Houston High School in Houston, then went to Purdue and he was voted the Boilermakers most valuable player for the 1937 season. In the summer of 1938, he led the College All-Stars to victory over the defending NFL champion Washington Redskins at Soldier Field in Chicago, Isbell was named the games MVP as the All-Stars prevailed, 28–16. Isbell was selected in the first round of the 1938 NFL draft by the Green Bay Packers, when he arrived in Green Bay, the Packers already had an All-Pro tailback, Arnie Herber. Who had led the Packers to the NFL championship in 1936, coach Curly Lambeau alternated Isbell and Herber and occasionally used them in the same backfield, with Isbell at halfback. This platooning allowed Isbell to learn Lambeaus offense, the Notre Dame Box, Isbell was a very accurate passer and a good runner and he led the Packers in rushing and passing in his rookie year. The Packers came in first in the West and faced the New York Giants in the game at the Polo Grounds. Isbell rushed 11 times for 20 yards and was 3 of 5 passing for 91 yards, in 1939, the Packers used the same attack and again Isbell led the team in rushing while catching 9 passes as well. The Packers again won the Western division and faced New York in a rematch from the year before and this time the game was played in Milwaukee and Green Bay crushed the Giants, 27–0, with Isbell throwing a 27-yard touchdown pass. From 1940 to 1942, the Packers finished second in the West to the Chicago Bears each year, Isbell became a more accomplished passer during this time, connecting regularly with Don Hutson in record-setting frequency. In 1941, Isbell set an NFL record for passing with 1,479 and led the league in completion percentage. The Packers finished the season tied with Chicago, but lost to the Bears in a divisional tiebreaker playoff, in 1942, Isbell surpassed his own record with 2021 yards passing and set a new record with 24 touchdown passes
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Dale Samuels
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Dale Allen Samuels is a former American football quarterback who played one season with the Chicago Cardinals of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Cardinals in the round of the 1953 NFL Draft. He played college football at Purdue University and attended Robert Lindblom Math & Science Academy in Chicago, Samuels played for the Purdue Boilermakers from 1950 to 1952. He was the first Boilermaker to record 1,000 passing yards in a season when he threw for 1,076 yards in 1950. In his second game for the Boilermakers on October 7,1950, he helped Purdue defeat the Notre Dame Fighting Irish, the Boilermakers won the Big Ten co-championship his senior year in 1952. He was inducted into the Purdue Intercollegiate Athletics Hall of Fame in 2001, Samuels was selected by the Chicago Cardinals with the 28th pick in the 1953 NFL draft. He played in one game for the Cardinals during the 1953 season
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Bob DeMoss
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Robert Alonzo Bob DeMoss is a former American football player, coach, and college athletics administrator. He served as the football coach at Purdue University from 1970 to 1972. DeMoss played football as a quarterback at Purdue from 1945 to 1948 and he was then selected in the second round of the 1949 NFL Draft by the New York Bulldogs, from whom he played in 1949. DeMoss was selected again in the 22nd round of the 1950 NFL Draft by the New York Giants, DeMoss was promoted to head coach in 1970. DeMoss inherited a Purdue squad who was loaded at the back position with Stan Brown, and Otis Armstrong. DeMoss resigned following the 1972 season, citing his desire to be with his family more as his reason for stepping down, DeMoss compiled a career college football record of 13–18. After his stint as Purdues head football coach, DeMoss remained an assistant athletics director as the university until 1992. <ref name=Purdue>Bob DeMoss at the College Football Data Warehouse Bob DeMoss at Pro-Football-Reference. com
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Super Bowl
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The Super Bowl is the annual championship game of the National Football League. The game is the culmination to a season that begins in the late summer of the previous calendar year. Normally, Roman numerals are used to each game, rather than the year in which it is held. For example, Super Bowl I was played on January 15,1967, the single exception to this rule is Super Bowl 50, which was played on February 7,2016, following the 2015 regular season. The next game, Super Bowl LII, scheduled for February 4,2018, the game was created as part of a merger agreement between the NFL and its then-rival league, the American Football League. It was agreed that the two champion teams would play in the AFL–NFL World Championship Game until the merger was to officially begin in 1970. After the merger, each league was redesignated as a conference, currently, the National Football Conference leads the league with 26 wins to 25 wins for the American Football Conference. The Pittsburgh Steelers have the most Super Bowl championship titles, with six, the New England Patriots have the most Super Bowl appearances, with nine. The day on which the Super Bowl is played, now considered by some as an unofficial American national holiday, is called Super Bowl Sunday and it is the second-largest day for U. S. food consumption, after Thanksgiving Day. In addition, the Super Bowl has frequently been the most-watched American television broadcast of the year, in 2015, Super Bowl XLIX became the most-watched American television program in history with an average audience of 114. The NFL restricts the use of its Super Bowl trademark, it is called the Big Game or other generic terms by non-sponsoring corporations. As a result, watching and discussing the broadcasts commercials has become a significant aspect of the event, for four decades after its 1920 inception, the NFL successfully fended off several rival leagues. However, in 1960, it encountered its most serious competitor when the American Football League was formed. The AFL vied heavily with the NFL for both players and fans, but by the middle of the decade the strain of competition led to merger talks between the two leagues. Prior to the 1966 season, the NFL and AFL reached an agreement that was to take effect for the 1970 season. As part of the merger, the champions of the two agreed to meet in a world championship game for professional American football until the merger was effected. A bowl game is a college football game. Exploiting the Rose Bowl Games popularity, post-season college football contests were created for Miami, New Orleans, and El Paso, Texas in 1935, by the time the first Super Bowl was played, the term bowl for any major American football game was well established
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Len Dawson
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Leonard Ray Dawson is a former American football quarterback and a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame. He played 19 seasons for three teams, the last 14 seasons with the Dallas Texans/Kansas City Chiefs, and played college football at Purdue University. Dawson led the Texans/Chiefs to three American Football League Championships, and a victory in Super Bowl IV, for which he won the games MVP award, Dawson retired from professional football after the 1975 season, and was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1987. He is sports director at KMBC-TV in Kansas City and color analyst for the Chiefs Radio Network, Dawson was the ninth of 11 children of Ohio native James and England-born Annie Dawson. He attended Alliance High School in Alliance, Ohio and he was MVP of the football team and was named outstanding Ohio back of the year by the International News Service. A three-sport athlete, Dawson set school records in football and in basketball, during the recruiting process, Dawson had to choose between Ohio State University in Columbus and Purdue University in Indiana. During three seasons with the Boilermakers, Dawson threw for over 3,000 yards, leading the Big Ten Conference in that category during each campaign, while at Purdue, Dawson was initiated into the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity. As a sophomore in 1954, Dawson put together an outstanding first season as the NCAAs leader in pass efficiency, while playing defense. Despite his status as a first round pick in the 1957 NFL draft, following his rookie campaign, his status in the Steel City became even more tenuous when the Steelers acquired future Hall of Famer Bobby Layne early in the 1958 season. Failing to dislodge the colorful signal caller, Dawson was then traded after the 1959 season to the Cleveland Browns on December 31. After encountering similar problems in battling Browns quarterback Milt Plum, Dawson was released, having completed only 21 passes for 204 yards, however, he soon found his calling when he signed with the American Football Leagues Dallas Texans on June 30,1962. The move reunited him with Stram, who was beginning his third year as the Texans head coach, in that first season,1962, Dawson led the league in touchdowns and yards per attempt, and was The Sporting News selection as the AFL MVP. He also led Dallas to the first of three titles in a thrilling double-overtime victory over the two-time defending champion Oilers in Houston. Dawson ran an offense in the 20-17 win, and tossed a 28-yard touchdown pass to halfback Abner Haynes. The team then moved north to Kansas City and were renamed The Chiefs in 1963, Dawson was also selected by his peers as a Sporting News 1966 AFL All-League player. A pinpoint passer, Dawsons mobility helped him flourish in Strams moving pocket offense and he would win four AFL passing titles and was selected as a league All-Star six times, ending the 10-year run of the league as its highest-rated career passer. From 1962 to 1969, Dawson threw more passes than any other professional football quarterback during that time. The NFL champion Green Bay Packers won easily, 35-10, but Dawson had a good performance in the game, completing 16 of 27 passes for 210 yards
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Mike Phipps
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Michael Elston Phipps is a former American college and professional football player who was a quarterback in the National Football league for twelve seasons during the 1970s and 1980s. Phipps played college football for Purdue University, and was recognized as an All-American and he was the third overall pick in the 1970 NFL Draft, and played professionally for the Cleveland Browns and Chicago Bears of the NFL. Phipps was born in Shelbyville, Indiana and he attended Columbus High School in Columbus, Indiana, and played for the Columbus Bulldogs high school football team. Phipps attended Purdue University, where he played for the Purdue Boilermakers football team and he began his college career replacing All-American Boilermakers quarterback Bob Griese. His first major victory was a 28-21 upset of defending national champion Notre Dame Fighting Irish on September 30,1967. Combining strong passing skills with excellent mobility helped Phipps establish a new school record for total offense. The Boilermakers were the team in the country until the Ohio State Buckeyes upset them 13-0 on October 12. He finished second in the voting for the Heisman Trophy to Oklahoma Sooners running back Steve Owens and he was awarded the 1969 Sammy Baugh Trophy, he declined the a Rhodes Scholarship to concentrate on a professional football career. Phipps was picked third in the 1970 NFL Draft by the Miami Dolphins, Phipps saw limited action during his first two seasons. In the teams third game of the 1970 NFL season, Phipps came off the bench to lead a 15-7 comeback victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers. However, his lone start of the year would be a 14-10 loss to the Cincinnati Bengals on November 15,1970, the following year, Phipps threw for only 179 yards and started just one contest, a 13-7 defeat to the Kansas City Chiefs on November 14. In 1972, Phipps again began the season on the sidelines and he threw for 13 touchdowns and nearly 2,000 yards, helping the Browns reach the NFL playoffs. In the November 13 game against the San Diego Chargers, he led a drive to win the 21-17 contest. The following year, he threw for nine touchdowns, but was intercepted 20 times, despite these struggles, he engineered two late-season comebacks in a win over the Steelers and a tie against the Kansas City Chiefs. However, the Browns missed the playoffs with a 7-5-2 record, in 1974, the team collapsed with a 4-10 record, and Phipps was briefly replaced by Brian Sipe at mid-season. The 1975 season was more disastrous as the Browns dropped their first nine games. The teams first victory came in a 35-23 of the Cincinnati Bengals on November 23 as Phipps threw for a high of 298 yards. Two other victories helped give hope for a turnaround the following season, in the teams 1976 opener against the New York Jets, Phipps started the game, but suffered a separated shoulder after being tackled by the Jets Shafer Suggs
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Kyle Orton
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Kyle Raymond Orton is a former American football quarterback. He played college football for Purdue, where he started four straight bowl games and he was drafted by the Chicago Bears in the fourth round of the 2005 NFL Draft. Orton did not play at all in 2006, and sparingly in 2007, Orton regained his starting job from Grossman in 2008, but the team finished a disappointing 9–7 and out of the playoffs. In the offseason of that year, he was traded to the Denver Broncos, Orton started his Broncos career by winning his first six games in the 2009 season, but injuries hobbled him in the second half of the season. Though Orton threw 21 touchdowns and only 12 interceptions, the team finished 8–8, Orton started 2010 season as the starting quarterback, though the team was not competitive most of the season, finishing 4–12. In 2011, he began the season as a starter. His contract expired and the Dallas Cowboys signed him on March 14,2012 off of free agency, after the 2013 NFL Season, the Cowboys released Orton as he would not show up for training camp. He signed with the Buffalo Bills just prior to the 2014 season, on September 29,2014, Bills head coach Doug Marrone named Orton starting quarterback of the then 2–2 Bills. Orton led the Buffalo Bills to a 9–7 record in 2014, Orton attended Southeast Polk High School in Pleasant Hill, Iowa, where he was a four-sport star in football, basketball, tennis, and track & field. At the end of his school career, Orton was the No.2 ranked quarterback in the nation by SuperPrep. His career passing statistics were 208 for 450,3,176 yards with 24 touchdowns and he earned honorable mention all-state and first team all-conference his senior year, after completing 95 of 192 attempts,1,366 yards with 12 touchdowns, and 5 interceptions. Orton wore uniform No.18 in honor of former Nebraska Cornhuskers quarterback Brook Berringer who died in a crash in 1996. Orton grew up a Husker fan, but chose to attend a program with a passing attack. He committed to Purdue, but considered attending Colorado before ultimately deciding on the former, Orton tied former Purdue quarterback Drew Brees record for number of passing yards in a game, and is the only Purdue quarterback to start four consecutive bowl games. Orton started in the 2001,02 and 04 Sun Bowl, during his undergrad years at Purdue, Orton was a member of the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity. In 2004, Orton was the preseason third-team All-American quarterback, behind USCs Matt Leinart, Orton had a nice start to the season, having led Purdue to a 5–0 start with 18 touchdowns and no interceptions. Later that season, he received injuries, in consecutive games against Michigan. Brandon Kirsch then replaced him during that time, Orton makes a cameo in NCAA Football 2006, where he says, EA Sports, its in the game, along with Derek Anderson in the games introduction
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Drew Brees
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Drew Christopher Brees is an American football quarterback for the New Orleans Saints of the National Football League. After a prolific college football career at Purdue University, he was chosen by the San Diego Chargers with the first pick in the round of the 2001 NFL Draft. He left college as one of the players in Purdue and Big Ten Conference history. As of 2016, he remains the Big Ten record-holder in virtually every passing category, including completions, yards, Brees started his professional career with the San Diego Chargers, earning the starting job in 2002 and making the Pro Bowl in 2004. Nine months after suffering a bad dislocation in his shoulder joint and he met immediate success in New Orleans, earning nine trips to the Pro Bowl and leading the Saints to their first Super Bowl in Super Bowl XLIV against the Indianapolis Colts. Since joining the Saints in 2006, he has led all NFL quarterbacks in touchdowns, passing yards, Brees has passed for over 5,000 yards in a season five times—no other NFL quarterback has done so more than once. He has led the NFL in passing touchdowns four times, and he was the NFLs Comeback Player of the Year in 2004, the Offensive Player of the Year in 2008 and 2011, and the MVP of Super Bowl XLIV. Sports Illustrated named Brees its 2010 Sportsman of the Year, Brees was born to Eugene Wilson Chip Brees II, a prominent trial lawyer, and Mina Ruth, an attorney. A Sports Illustrated article stated he was named for Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Drew Pearson and he has a younger brother, Reid. When Brees was seven, his parents divorced and shared custody of the boys, Today, Brees admits that it was a very tough and challenging life after the divorce, however, Brees and his younger brother, Reid, supported each other and became very close. They have a younger half-sister, Audrey, from their fathers remarriage to Amy Hightower, daughter of the late U. S, both of Breess parents had athletic backgrounds. His father played basketball for the Texas A&M Aggies mens basketball team and his younger brother, Reid, was an outfielder for the Baylor Bears baseball team, which made the 2005 College World Series and now resides in Colorado, where he works in sales. Brees did not play football until high school and was on the flag football team at St. Andrews Episcopal School, where his teammates included actor Benjamin McKenzie. In high school, he was a varsity letterman in baseball, basketball and football and was considering playing college baseball rather than football, College recruiters quickly ran after Brees blew out his knee in the 11th grade. As a high school player, Brees completed 314 of 490 passes for 5,461 yards with 50 touchdowns including. Westlake went 28–0–1 when Brees started for two seasons and beat a Dominic Rhodes-led Abilene Cooper 55–15 in the 1996 title game, Brees was given honorable mention in the state high school all-star football team and the USA Today All-USA high school football team. Brees only received offers from Purdue and Kentucky, ultimately choosing the former due to its highly rated academics and he graduated in 2001 with a degree in industrial management, and is a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity. He had the option to make available for the 2000 NFL Draft
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New Orleans Saints
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The New Orleans Saints are a professional American football team based in New Orleans, Louisiana. The Saints currently compete in the National Football League as a member of the leagues National Football Conference South division, the team was founded by John W. Mecom Jr. David Dixon and the city of New Orleans. The Saints began play in Tulane Stadium in 1967, the franchise was founded on November 1,1966. The teams primary colors are old gold and black, their logo is a simplified fleur-de-lis and they played their home games in Tulane Stadium through the 1974 NFL season. The following year, they moved to the new Louisiana Superdome, for most of their first 20 years, the Saints were barely competitive, only getting to.500 twice. In 1987, they finished 12–3—their first-ever winning season—and qualified for the NFL playoffs for the first time in franchise history, the next season of 1988 ended with a 10–6 record. In the year 2000, the Saints defeated the St. Louis Rams 31–28 to notch their first-ever playoff win, in 2005, Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans and much of the Gulf Coast region. The Superdome was used as a temporary shelter for displaced residents. The stadium suffered damage from the hurricane, and from lack of available facilities, ultimately, however, the Superdome was repaired and renovated in time for the 2006 season at an estimated cost of US$185 million. The New Orleans Saints first post-Katrina home game was an emotionally charged Monday Night Football game versus their division rival, the Atlanta Falcons. The Saints, under head coach Sean Payton and new quarterback Drew Brees, defeated the Falcons 23–3. The 2009 season was a one for the Saints. Winning a franchise-record 13 games, they qualified for Super Bowl XLIV, over the course of 49 seasons, the Saints have compiled an overall record of 331–418–5, with a regular-season record of 324–409–5 and a playoff record of 7–9. First the brainchild of local sports entrepreneur Dave Dixon, who founded the Louisiana Superdome and the USFL. Senator Russell Long, and then–NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle, the NFL needed congressional approval of the proposed AFL–NFL merger. Dixon and a civic group had been seeking an NFL franchise for over five years and had hosted record crowds for NFL exhibition games. To seal the merger, Rozelle arrived in New Orleans within a week, and announced on November 1,1966, when the deal was reached a week earlier, Dixon strongly suggested to Rozelle that the announcement be delayed until then. Dixon told an interviewer that he cleared the name with New Orleans Archbishop Philip M. Hannan
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Denver Broncos
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The Denver Broncos are an American football team based in Denver, Colorado. The Broncos compete in the National Football League as a club of the leagues American Football Conference West division. The team began play in 1960 as a member of the American Football League. The Broncos are owned by the Pat Bowlen trust, the Broncos have played at Sports Authority Field at Mile High since 2001, after previously playing at Mile High Stadium from 1960 to 2000. The Broncos were barely competitive during their 10-year run in the AFL and they did not complete a winning season until 1973. In 1977, four years later, they qualified for the playoffs for the first time in franchise history, since 1975, the Broncos have become one of the NFLs more successful teams, having suffered only six losing seasons. However, the Broncos have the NFL record for most Super Bowl losses and they have five players in the Pro Football Hall of Fame, John Elway, Floyd Little, Gary Zimmerman, Shannon Sharpe, and the most recently elected member, Terrell Davis. The Denver Broncos were founded on August 14,1959, when Minor League Baseball owner Bob Howsam was awarded an American Football League charter franchise, the Broncos won the first-ever AFL game over the Boston Patriots 13–10, on September 9,1960. On August 5,1967, they became the first-ever AFL team to defeat an NFL team, however, the Broncos were not successful in the 1960s, compiling a record of 39–97–4 in the league. Denver came close to losing its franchise in 1965, until an ownership group took control. The teams first superstar, Franchise Floyd Little, was instrumental in keeping the team in Denver, due to his signing in 1967 as well as his Pro Bowl efforts on, in 1972, the Broncos hired former Stanford University coach John Ralston as their head coach. In 1973, he was the UPIs AFC Coach of the Year, in five seasons with the Broncos, Ralston guided the team to winning seasons three times. Though Ralston finished the 1976 season with a 9–5 record, the team, as was the case in Ralstons previous winning seasons, following the season, several prominent players publicly voiced their discontent with Ralston, which soon led to his resignation. Dan Reeves became the youngest head coach in the NFL when he joined the Broncos in 1981 as vice president, quarterback John Elway, who played college football at Stanford, arrived in 1983 via a trade. Prior to Elway, the Broncos had over 24 different starting quarterbacks in its 23 seasons to that point, Reeves and Elway guided the Broncos to six post-season appearances, five AFC West divisional titles, three AFC championships and three Super Bowl appearances during their 12-year span together. Reeves was fired after the 1992 season and replaced by his protégé and friend Wade Phillips, Phillips was fired after a mediocre 1994 season, in which management felt he lost control of the team. In 1995, Mike Shanahan, who had served under Reeves as the Broncos offensive coordinator. Shanahan drafted rookie running back Terrell Davis, in 1996, the Broncos were the top seed in the AFC with a 13–3 record, dominating most of the teams that year
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Curtis Painter
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Curtis Jeffrey Painter is a former American football quarterback. He was drafted by the Indianapolis Colts in the round of the 2009 NFL Draft. He played college football for the Purdue Boilermakers, curtis Painter was born in Watseka, Illinois. During his freshman year, Painter moved to Vincennes, Indiana, during his high school football career, Painter had a three-year record of 28–7 with 4,946 passing yards,49 passing touchdowns, and 17 rushing touchdowns. He ended his school career a finalist on the Mr. Football ballot and led his team to an 11–2 record and a conference championship. Painter was a 3-star rated Pro-Style Quarterback ranked by rivals. com before committing to play for Purdue University and he also played baseball and basketball for the Alices. Painter committed to Purdue University on October 8,2003, Painter was not heavily recruited as he only received FBS scholarship offers from Purdue, Ball State and Indiana. Painter committed to play for Purdue University on July 28,2003 under head coach Joe Tiller, on the season, Painter completed 89 of 170 passes, for 932 yards, with 3 touchdowns and 5 interceptions. Painter became the Boilers starting quarterback indefinitely after Kirsch left an early of eligibility. Painter started in 14 games in his season, where he threw for 22 touchdowns. He set the Big Ten Conference record in passing yards. His 284.6 passing yards per game ranked seventh in the nation and he led the Boilermakers to the Champs Sports Bowl, resulting in a 24–7 loss to Maryland. Starting in every game in his season, Painter threw 29 touchdown passes. He averaged 295.9 yards per game, which was 12th most in the nation and he threw for six touchdowns, completing 38 of 49 attempts with 348 total yards against Eastern Illinois. He hurt his throwing shoulder resulting in a 4–8 overall record and only appeared in 10 games with nine starts, while reserve quarterbacks, Justin Siller and Joey Elliot, stepped in his place. His top game on the season came against Indiana in his last collegiate game and he started in 41 of the 46 games in which he appeared and went 987 of 1,648 with a total of 11,163 passing yards and threw for 67 touchdowns with 46 interceptions. He was co-captain along with Ryan Baker and Jermaine Guynn for the 2008 football season and he holds a degree in computer graphics technology. Source, Painters 3,985 passing yards in 2006 are the most in a season in Purdue history
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Indianapolis Colts
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The Indianapolis Colts are an American football team based in Indianapolis. The Colts compete in the National Football League as a club of the leagues American Football Conference South division. Since the 2008 season, the Colts have played their games in Lucas Oil Stadium, previously, the team had played for over two decades at the RCA Dome. Since 1986, the Colts have been the host team for the NFL Scouting Combine, the Colts have been a member club of the NFL since their founding in 1953 in Baltimore. The Colts were one of three NFL teams to join the teams of the American Football League to form the AFC following the 1970 merger. While in Baltimore, the team advanced to the playoffs 10 times, the Colts played in two Super Bowl games while it was based in Baltimore, losing to the New York Jets in Super Bowl III, while defeating the Dallas Cowboys in Super Bowl V. The Colts relocated to Indianapolis in 1984 and have appeared in the playoffs 16 times. Following World War II, a professional football league was organized known as the All America Football Conference which began play in the 1946 season. These Colts played for the three seasons in the old AAFC. With the organization in 1920 of the original American Professional Football Conference, the NFL considers the Texans and Colts to be separate teams, although many of the earlier teams shared the same colors of blue and white. Thus, the Indianapolis Colts are legally considered to be a 1953 expansion team, the third version of the Colts football team played their first season in Baltimore in 1953, where the team compiled a 3–9 record under first year head coach Keith Molesworth. The franchise struggled during the first few years in Baltimore, with the team not achieving their first winning record until the 1957 season. The Colts faced the New York Giants in the 1958 NFL Championship Game in what is considered to be among the greatest contests in professional football history. The Colts defeated the Giants 23–17 in the first game ever to utilize the overtime rule, a game seen by 45 million people. Following the two championships in 1958 and 1959, the Colts did not return to the NFL Championship for four seasons, in Shulas second season the Colts compiled a 12–2 record, but lost to the Cleveland Browns in the NFL Championship. However, in 1968 the Colts returned with the leadership of Unitas and Shula and went on to win the Colts third NFL Championship. The Colts, however, were stunned by the Jets, who won the game 16–7 in the first Super Bowl victory for the young AFL. The Colts immediately went on a rampage in the new league, as new head coach Don McCafferty led the 1970 team to an 11–2–1 regular season record, winning the AFC East title
