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Garland, Texas
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Garland is a city in the U. S. state of Texas. It is a city northeast of Dallas and is a part of the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. It is located almost entirely within Dallas County, except a portion located in Collin. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 226,876, making it the 87th-most populous city in the United States of America and the 12th-most populous city in the state of Texas. Garland is second only to the City of Dallas in Dallas County by population and has access to downtown Dallas via public transportation including two Dart Blue line stations and buses. In 2008, Garland was ranked #67 on CNN and Money magazines list of the Top 100 Places to Live, as of 2014 the city was considered the 6th Best City for Working Parents. In 2014 Garland was ranked the 7th best city for saving money and this ranked Garland 2nd best in Texas. In 2015, Garland was listed #17 overall and #5 best mid-sized city to purchase a home for First-Time Home Buyers, in 2015, Garland was labeled the 8th Best Run City in America. In 2016 Move. org rated Garland as the 8th Best City in America to Raise a Family, wallethub ranked Garland as the 17th Best in the Country for a Job in 2017. This placed Garland as the 2nd Best in Texas, immigrants began arriving in the Peters colony area around 1850, but a community was not created until 1874. Two communities sprang up in the area, Embree, named for the physician K. H. Embree, a rivalry between the two towns ensued as the area began to grow around the Santa Fe Railroad depot. The move was completed in 1887, the new location was named Garland after U. S. Attorney General Augustus Hill Garland. Soon after, the towns of Embree and Duck Creek were combined, by 1904, the town had a population of 819 people. In 1920, local businessmen financed a new electrical generator plant for the town and this later led to the formation of Garland Power and Light, the municipal electric provider that still powers the city today. On May 9,1927, a devastating F4 tornado struck the town and killed 15 people, including the former mayor, businesses began to move back into the area in the late 1930s. The Craddock food company and later the Byer-Rolnick hat factory moved into the area, in 1937, KRLD, a major Dallas radio station, built its radio antenna tower in Garland, and it is operational to this day. During World War II, several plants were operated in the area. By 1950, the population of Garland exceeded 10,000 people, the suburban population boom that the whole country experienced after World War II also reached Garland by 1960, when the population nearly quadrupled from the 1950 figure to about 38,500
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Centre College
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Centre College is a private liberal arts college located in Danville, Kentucky, a community of approximately 16,000 in Boyle County, about 35 miles south of Lexington, Kentucky. Centre is an undergraduate institution with an enrollment of approximately 1,375 students. Centre was founded by Presbyterian leaders, with whom it maintains a loose affiliation, the college is a member of the Associated Colleges of the South. The Kentucky General Assembly established Centre College on January 21,1819, the college was named for its proximate location in the geographic centre of the Commonwealth, using early nineteenth century Americas contemporaneous spelling of the word. Auspiciously, the legislature placed many of Kentuckys most prominent citizens in charge of Centre Colleges Board of Trustees, with Isaac Shelby, classes began in the fall of 1820 in Old Centre, the first building on campus and the oldest college administration building west of the Allegheny Mountains. From 1830 to 1857, President John C. Young oversaw a vast enlargement of the faculty, following the Civil War, Centre affiliated itself with several other educational institutions. From 1894 until 1912, J. Proctor Knott, a former Kentucky Governor and U. S. Congressman, in 1921, Centre upset Harvard Universitys undefeated football team 6–0, a feat which led The New York Times to later call it Footballs Upset of the Century. ESPN described Centres victory as one of the biggest upsets in all sports during the twentieth century, c6H0 remains a point of pride among students and alumni and is the answer to What is the formula for a winning football team. To this day, C6HO is inscribed in large figures on the brick exterior of Centres old post office. During the 1960s the colleges financial resources doubled, eleven new buildings were added to the campus and enrollment increased from 450 to 800. In 1988, Centre set a record when it achieved a 75. 4% participation rate for alumni giving. From the latter twentieth century to the present, strong levels of alumni giving, today, enrollment is around 1,300 with nearly 150 faculty members. Dr. John A. Roush, who took office in 1998, is the colleges 20th president, in 2000, Centre became the smallest college ever to host a national election debate. Dick Cheney and Senator Joe Lieberman debated on October 5 at Centres Norton Center for the Arts with CNNs Bernard Shaw acting as moderator. In 2012, Centre again hosted a presidential debate in the Norton Center for the Arts. The physical campus has changed substantially during the past decade, in August 2011, Centre announced the construction of Brockman Residential Commons, a 125-bed facility offering apartment and townhouse living for upperclassmen. The residence facility was completed at the beginning of the 2012–13 school year, during the Confederate occupation of Old Centre in 1862, classes were held at Old Sayre library. However, the Battle of Perryville eventually forced the faculty to suspend classes for 13 days, classes were cancelled one day due to the Great Blizzard of 1978
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Columbus Panhandles
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The Columbus Panhandles were a professional American football team based in Columbus, Ohio. The club was founded in 1901 by workers at the Panhandle shops of the Pennsylvania Railroads and they were a part of the Ohio League from 1904 before folding after one season. The Panhandles are credited with playing in the first NFL game against another NFL opponent and they have zero NFL championships, but Joseph Carr, the teams owner from 1907 to 1922, is enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame for his work as NFL president. The earliest existence of the Panhandles was in 1900, the Columbus Press-Post reported Jack Walsh creating the Panhandle railroad team consisting of big hardy railroad men, no other articles in 1900 were written about the Panhandles. A game was scheduled for October 19 of next year, however, in 1901, managed by William Butler of the Ohio Medical University, the Panhandles played two games against the Columbus Barracks, a team consisting of local soldiers. The results were split, the first was a 2–6 loss while the second was a 12–6 win, Butler left the Panhandles for unknown reasons, and the new manager for the 1902 season was Harry Greenwood. Greenwood placed advertisements in every newspaper he could in order to schedule games against local opponents and his ad read The Panhandle Athletic Club has organized a football team and would like to play any college, high school or manufacturing team on Saturday or Sunday. As a result, the Panhandles scheduled four games in 1902, again, the Panhandles got a new manager for the 1903 season, E. E. Griest. Griest needed help with the team, so he hired Ben Chamberlain to coach the team, after an exhibition game against the Ohio State Buckeyes, the Panhandles won their first game of the season, a 38–0 victory over Neil Avenue Athletic Club. This victory gave the team some unexpected press, the Columbus Citizen wrote the first article praising the team, the Panhandles 1903 season ended with a 5–3 record. In 1904, Joseph Carr, who was a writer for the Ohio State Journal and manager of the railroads baseball team the Famous Panhandle White Sox. However the Panhandles didn’t take off and the team played just two games, Carr tried again three years later in 1907. One of the first things Carr did when he became the owner of the Panhandles was to one the railroads policies. Since most of the players were employed by the railroad. Because of this perk, Carr was able to schedule mostly road games, eliminating the expenses of stadium rental, game promotion, and security for the field. However, while the team did play the majority of their games on the road as a traveling team, the Panhandles adopted an amateur sandlot mentality for their playing style. Since the team was composed mainly of workers, the scenario gave the players limited time to practice. The Panhandles did the majority of their preparation during their lunch breaks, workers had a one-hour break during a normal workday, and the players on the team usually took the first 15 minutes to eat lunch and used the remaining 45 minutes to practice football
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American football
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The offense must advance at least ten yards in four downs, or plays, or else they turn over the football to the opposing team, if they succeed, they are given a new set of four downs. Points are primarily scored by advancing the ball into the teams end zone for a touchdown or kicking the ball through the opponents goalposts for a field goal. The team with the most points at the end of a game wins, American football evolved in the United States, originating from the sports of association football and rugby football. The first game of American football was played on November 6,1869, during the latter half of the 1870s, colleges playing association football switched to the Rugby Union code, which allowed carrying the ball. American football as a whole is the most popular sport in the United States, Professional football and college football are the most popular forms of the game, with the other major levels being high school and youth football. As of 2012, nearly 1.1 million high school athletes and 70,000 college athletes play the sport in the United States annually, almost all of them men, in the United States, American football is referred to as football. The term football was established in the rulebook for the 1876 college football season. The terms gridiron or American football are favored in English-speaking countries where other codes of football are popular, such as the United Kingdom, Ireland, New Zealand, American football evolved from the sports of association football and rugby football. What is considered to be the first American football game was played on November 6,1869 between Rutgers and Princeton, two college teams, the game was played between two teams of 25 players each and used a round ball that could not be picked up or carried. It could, however, be kicked or batted with the feet, hands, head or sides, Rutgers won the game 6 goals to 4. Collegiate play continued for years in which matches were played using the rules of the host school. Representatives of Yale, Columbia, Princeton and Rutgers met on October 19,1873 to create a set of rules for all schools to adhere to. Teams were set at 20 players each, and fields of 400 by 250 feet were specified, Harvard abstained from the conference, as they favored a rugby-style game that allowed running with the ball. An 1875 Harvard-Yale game played under rugby-style rules was observed by two impressed Princeton athletes and these players introduced the sport to Princeton, a feat the Professional Football Researchers Association compared to selling refrigerators to Eskimos. Princeton, Harvard, Yale and Columbia then agreed to play using a form of rugby union rules with a modified scoring system. These schools formed the Intercollegiate Football Association, although Yale did not join until 1879, the introduction of the snap resulted in unexpected consequences. Prior to the snap, the strategy had been to punt if a scrum resulted in bad field position, however, a group of Princeton players realized that, as the snap was uncontested, they now could hold the ball indefinitely to prevent their opponent from scoring. In 1881, both teams in a game between Yale-Princeton used this strategy to maintain their undefeated records, each team held the ball, gaining no ground, for an entire half, resulting in a 0-0 tie
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Danville, Kentucky
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Danville is a home rule-class city in Boyle County, Kentucky, in the United States. It is the seat of its county, the population was 16,690 at the 2015 Census. Danville is the city of the Danville Micropolitan Statistical Area. In 2001, Danville received a Great American Main Street Award from the National Trust for Historic Preservation, in 2011, Money magazine placed Danville as the fourth-best place to retire in the United States. Danville has recently been chosen to host U. S. Vice-Presidential debates, in 2000. Within Kentucky, Danville is called the City of Firsts, It housed the first courthouse in Kentucky, the first Kentucky constitution was written and signed here. It was the first capital of Kentucky and it had the first U. S. post office west of the Allegheny Mountains. It hosts the first state-supported school for the deaf, Ephraim McDowell completed the first known successful laparotomy here in 1809, removing an ovarian tumor from a woman patient without anesthesia. It is the home of Centre College, housing the oldest college administration building, Danville was part of the Great Settlement Area around Harrods Fort, which was first settled in 1774. The city was named for Daniel, the Virginia legislature officially established Danville on December 4,1787. Between 1784 and 1792, ten conventions were held in Danville to petition for better governance, in 1786 the Danville Political Club was organized. It met each Saturday night at Graysons Tavern to discuss the political, economic, after a state constitution was adopted and separation was confirmed in 1792, the town ceased to be of statewide importance. Transylvania University was founded in Danville in 1783 and it moved to Lexington in 1789. Centre College was founded in 1819, Danville Theological Seminary was founded in 1853, in 1901 it became part of the Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary. The Caldwell Institute for Young Ladies was founded in 1860 and it became Caldwell Female College in 1876, Caldwell College in 1904, Kentucky College for Women in 1913, and merged into Centre College in 1926. In December 1806, William Clark visited his nephews in school in Danville before following Lewis to Washington, the first school in Danville for African-American children was founded around 1840 by Willis Russell, an emancipated slave of Robert Craddock, a Revolutionary War veteran. Craddock deeded a log house in Danville to Russell and he moved to the town after Craddocks death and started a school for children. The house still stands on Walnut Street, in 1842, Boyle County was formed from southern Mercer County and northern Lincoln County
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Fort Worth, Texas
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Fort Worth is the 16th-largest city in the United States and the fifth-largest city in the state of Texas. The city is in North Central Texas and covers nearly 350 square miles in the counties of Denton, Parker, Wise, according to the 2015 census, estimates, Fort Worths population is 833,319. The city is the second-largest in the Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington metropolitan area, the city was established in 1849 as an Army outpost on a bluff overlooking the Trinity River. Today, Fort Worth still embraces its Western heritage and traditional architecture, USS Fort Worth is the first ship of the United States Navy named after the city. Fort Worth is home to the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, also of note is the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, designed by Tadao Ando. The Amon Carter Museum of American Art, designed by Philip Johnson, the Sid Richardson Museum, redesigned by David M. Schwarz, has one of the most focused collections of Western Art in the U. S. emphasizing Frederic Remington and Charles Russell. The Treaty of Birds Fort between the Republic of Texas and several Native American tribes was signed in 1843 at Birds Fort in present-day Arlington, Texas. Article XI of the treaty provided that no one may pass the line of trading houses without permission of the President of Texas and these trading houses were later established at the junction of the Clear Fork and West Fork of the Trinity River in present-day Fort Worth. At this river junction, the U. S, War Department established Fort Worth in 1849 as the northernmost of a system of 10 forts for protecting the American Frontier following the end of the Mexican–American War. The City of Fort Worth continues to be known as where the West begins, originally 10 forts had been proposed by Major General William Jenkins Worth, who commanded the Department of Texas in 1849. In January 1849, Worth proposed a line of 10 forts to mark the western Texas frontier from Eagle Pass to the confluence of the West Fork, One month later, Worth died from cholera in South Texas. General William S. Harney assumed command of the Department of Texas, Arnold to find a new fort site near the West Fork and Clear Fork. On June 6,1849, Arnold, advised by Middleton Tate Johnson, established a camp on the bank of the Trinity River, in August 1849, Arnold moved the camp to the north-facing bluff, which overlooked the mouth of the Clear Fork of the Trinity River. The United States War Department officially named the post Fort Worth on November 14,1849, E. S. Terrell from Tennessee claimed to be the first resident of Fort Worth. The fort was flooded the first year and moved to the top of the bluff, the fort was abandoned September 17,1853. As a stop on the legendary Chisholm Trail, Fort Worth was stimulated by the business of the cattle drives, millions of head of cattle were driven north to market along this trail. Fort Worth became the center of the drives, and later. It was given the nickname of Cowtown, during Civil War, Fort Worth suffered from shortages of money, food, and supplies
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Bo McMillin
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Alvin Nugent McMillin was an American football player and coach at the collegiate and professional level. He played football at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky, where he was a three-time All-American at quarterback, McMillin was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a player as part of its inaugural 1951 class. He was the football coach at Centenary College of Louisiana, Geneva College, Kansas State University and Indiana University. In 1945, he led Indiana to its first Big Ten Conference title and was named AFCA Coach of the Year, after graduating from Centre, McMillin played professionally with the Milwaukee Badgers and Cleveland Indians—two early National Football League teams—in 1922 and 1923. He later returned to the NFL, coaching the Detroit Lions from 1948 to 1950, McMillins career NFL coaching mark was 14–24. McMillin was born on January 12,1895 to Reuben Thomas McMillin and Martha Buchanan Reilly in Prairie Hill, Limestone County, the family moved in 1897 to Waco and in 1901 to Fort Worth. McMillins father was a meat packer, as a child, Bo was known to pick fights, but was also known all his life as one who never drunk nor smoked nor swore. He spoke with a distinctive Texas drawl and he played football as a running back at North Side High School in Fort Worth and Somerset High School in Somerset, Kentucky. At North Side, he played with Red Weaver and was coached by Robert L. Myers, sully Montgomery, Matty Bell, Bill James and Bob Mathias also attended North Side. By the ninth grade, McMillin had reached his full growth at 5 feet 9 inches and 165 pounds, Myers obtained the coaching job at his alma mater, Centre College, and brought all the above-named players with him. McMillin and Weaver did not have sufficient high-school credits to enter college and enrolled at Somerset High School for the 1916-17 year, ive got a boy under my wing down here in Texas whos a football-playing fool and I want him to go to Centre. Id like for you to get him in a school up there. Wrote Myers to a man in Somerset, McMillin began his collegiate career at Centre College in Kentucky. McMillin was a student who supported himself by gambling and liked to play football. McMillin failed all his courses during his year, eventually receiving his A. B. degree from Centre in 1937 with credit for military service. According to McMillin, he initially left Centre with $3,500 in debt and he was a Hall-of-Fame, three-time All-American, triple-threat quarterback on the Centre Colonels football team under head coaches Chief Meyers and Charley Moran. McMillin was the quarterback on Centres all-time football team which was chosen in 1935 and he was nominated for the Associated Press All-Time Southeast 1869-1919-era team. In McMillins day of iron man football, he was also a safety man on defense and he began playing football at Centre in 1917, making an impact as a freshman when his 17-yard drop kick defeated the rival Kentucky Wildcats 3–0
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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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Mayfield, Kentucky
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Mayfield is a home rule-class city in Graves County, Kentucky, in the United States. It is the seat of its county, the population was 10,024 as of the 2010 U. S. census. Mayfield is in the center of the Jackson Purchase, an eight-county region purchased by Isaac Shelby, Mayfield was established as the county seat of Graves County in 1821, and the county was formally organized in 1823. John Anderson is believed to have been the first settler, arriving in 1819, in December 1821, Anderson was appointed county court clerk and moved about two and a half miles to the site that became Mayfield. According to Trabue Davis, the name originates indirectly from a gambler named Mayfield. He was carried to the site of todays Mayfield, where he carved his name into a tree in hopes that someone would see it and he then tried to escape, but he drowned trying to cross what is now called Mayfield Creek. The future town got its name from the creek, the completion of the Memphis, New Orleans, and Northern Railroad in 1858 connected Mayfield with the outside world. Beginning with the Mayfield Woolen Mills in 1860, manufacturing clothing became the industry in Mayfield for the next hundred years. The town was also a market for loose-leaf tobacco. During the Civil War, the Jackson Purchase including Mayfield strongly supported the Confederate cause, the Jackson Purchase has even been called Kentuckys South Carolina. On May 29,1861, a group of Southern sympathizers from Kentucky, most records of the event are lost, probably due to an 1887 fire that destroyed the courthouse. In 1907, Fulton County judge Herbert Carr recalled that the Mayfield Convention adopted a resolution for secession, and they also condemned the Federal government for providing Lincoln guns to Union sympathizers in eastern Kentucky. The convention nominated Henry Burnett to represent Kentuckys First District in Congress, the Mayfield Convention was followed by the Russellville Convention, which created the provisional Confederate government of Kentucky. Following the war, these southern sympathies were demonstrated by the dominance of the Democratic Party in local elections. During the Civil Rights Movement, the schools were slow to integrate. The Mayfield Ten, ten students from the segregated Dunbar High School, were allowed to register at all-white Mayfield High School in 1956. In 2000, Mayfield was shocked by the murder of Jessica Currin, the case was finally closed nearly seven years later with the help of a local amateur investigator and a British journalist. On May 10,2016, an EF3 tornado passed just north of the city limits, on August 24,2010 the Board of Zoning reversed its decision to allow a group of refugees to hold Islamic religious services in a local building
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1919 Centre Praying Colonels football team
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The 1919 Centre Praying Colonels football team represented Centre College in the 1919 college football season. The Praying Colonels scored 485 points, leading the nation, while allowing 23 points, the team was retroactively selected by Jeff Sagarin as the national champion for the 1919 season. Quarterback Bo McMillin and center James Red Weaver were named to Walter Camps first-team 1919 College Football All-America Team, just the year before Bum Day was the first Southern player ever selected to Camps first team – and Centre became the first school with two. Fullback and end James Red Roberts was named to Camps third team, the highlight of the season was the win over West Virginia. McMillin had the team pray before it, forever giving the Centre College Colonels its alternate moniker of Praying Colonels, five Centre regulars were natives of Fort Worth, Texas, namely quarterback Bo McMillin, Bill James, Sully Montgomery, Matty Bell, and Red Weaver. They were accused of being professionals, but the charges were rebuked by seasons end, without Bo it would not be a Centre team. Former Centre player and North Side High School head coach Robert L. Myers was to bring McMillin, Weaver, however, McMillin and Weaver did not have sufficient credits to enter college, and thus entered Somerset High School for the 1916-17 year, playing with Red Roberts. Centres linemen were known as the Seven Mustangs, a game with Maryville College was scheduled but never played due to Maryville injuries. On opening day, Centre swamped Hanover 95–0, Roberts was shifted from fullback to tackle, and played well. The starting lineup was King, Roberts, Montgomery, Bell, Van Antwerp, Coleman, Whitnell, McMillin, Murphy, Davis, Indiana was up 3–0 with 2,20 left in the game, when Centre started its comeback victory. McMillin and Roberts worked it towards the goal, Roberts going over, Indiana was then desperate to even the score, and McMillin intercepted a pass, and returned it for a touchdown, dodging and straight arming the entire Indiana eleven. Indianas three points early in the first period, when its quarterback, Mathys, made a 35-yard drop kick. The starting lineup was Whitnell, Montgomery, Van Antwerp, Garrett, Coleman, James, McCullom, McMillin, Bittle, Davis, the Colonels beat St. Xavier 57–0. In the fourth week of play, the Colonels beat the Transylvania Pioneers 69–0, transylvanias Milton broken several bones in his foot the week previous. Centres backfield starred and smashed the Virginia Cavaliers 49–7 in the mud, joe Murphy had a 75-yard touchdown run. Soon after, McMillin went 70 yards for a touchdown, the starting lineup was Bell, Montgomery, Van Antwerp, Weaver, Cregor, James, Snoddy, McMillin, Armstrong, Davis, Roberts. The sixth week of play brought the highlight of the season — a 14–6 comeback win over West Virginia, McMillin had the team pray before the game, forever giving the Centre College Colonels its alternate moniker of Praying Colonels. Rodgers came out passing and West Virginia scores first early when he bucked it over, later, a 25-yard pass from McMillin to Terry Snoddy brought the ball near the goal
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Placekicker
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Placekicker, or simply kicker, is the player in American and Canadian football who is responsible for the kicking duties of field goals and extra points. In many cases, the placekicker also serves as the kickoff specialist or punter as well. The kicker initially was not a specialized role, george Blanda, Frank Gifford and Paul Hornung are prominent examples of players who were stars at other positions as well as being known for their kicking abilities. When the one-platoon system was abolished in the 1940s, the era of players gave way to increased specialization. Ben Agajanian, who started his career in 1945, was the first confirmed place-kicking specialist in the NFL. Because of the difference in techniques needed, to avoid leg fatigue, the placekicker usually will only punt when the punter is injured, and vice versa. A professional team will occasionally even have a kickoff specialist who handles only the kickoffs and serves as a backup to the kicker who handles field goals and extra points. This is typically done to protect a premier point-scoring kicker from injury or if he, while accurate. Amateur teams often do not differentiate between placekickers and punters, have different players assume different placekicking duties, or have regular position players handle kicking duties, the last option is quite common on high school teams, when the best athletes are often the best kickers. Before the modern era of pro football, this was also the case for professional teams, placekickers and punters are often the lowest paid starters on professional teams, although proven placekickers sometimes earn over $1 million per year in salary. It is not uncommon for placekickers to be some of the smallest members of their team, however, The New York Times in 2011 wrote that NFL kickers had adopted year-round weight training and strict diets. Sebastian Janikowski that year was a 6-foot-2-inch and 250-pound kicker, kicker Rob Bironas, who was 6 feet and 205 pounds, noted, I might be bigger than some wide receivers and cornerbacks. The presence of foreign born-and-raised players in the highest levels of football has largely been limited to placekickers. Notably Tom Landry recruited several players from Latin America, such as Efren Herrera and Raphael Septien. These anecdotes increase the perception of the placekicker as an outsider, the top 25 players in NFL history in career scoring are all placekickers. Stephen Gostkowski, of the New England Patriots, is the NFLs highest paid kicker, in the NFL, placekickers, along with punters and quarterbacks, are among the only players allowed to wear single-digit uniform numbers, kickers can also wear numbers between 10 and 19. In college and high school football, kickers can wear any number, the two players in documented football history to have worn the uniform number 100, Chuck Kinder and Bill Bell, were both placekickers. Previously, most placekickers used a straight on style, which required the use of a shoe that is extremely rigid and has a flattened
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Find a Grave
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Find a Grave is a website that allows the public to search and add to an online database of cemetery records. It is owned by Ancestry. com, the worlds largest for-profit genealogy company, the site was created in 1995 by Salt Lake City resident Jim Tipton to support his hobby of visiting the burial sites of celebrities. He later added an online forum, Find a Grave was launched as a commercial entity in 1998, first as a trade name and then incorporated in 2000. The site later expanded to include graves of non-celebrities, in order to allow visitors to pay respect to their deceased relatives or friends. In 2013, Tipton sold Find a Grave to Ancestry. com, burial information is a wonderful source for people researching their family history. In a September 30,2013, press release, Ancestry, as of March 2017, Find a Grave contained over 159 million burial records and 75 million photos. The website contains listings of cemeteries and graves from around the world, american cemeteries are organized by state and county, and many cemetery records contain Google Maps and photographs of the cemeteries and gravesites. Individual grave records may contain dates and places of birth and death, biographical information, cemetery and plot information, photographs, Interment listings are added by individuals, genealogical societies, and other institutions such as the International Wargraves Photography Project. Contributors must register as members to submit listings, called memorials, the submitter becomes the manager of the listing but may transfer management. Only the current manager of a listing may edit it, although any member may use the features to send correction requests to the listings manager. Managers may add links to other listings of deceased spouses, parents, members may post requests for photos of a specific grave, these requests will be automatically sent to other members who have registered their location as being near that grave. Find a Grave also maintains lists of memorials of famous persons by their claim to fame, such as Medal of Honor recipients, religious figures, Find a Grave exercises editorial control over these listings. Canadian Headstones Interment. net National Cemetery Administrations Nationwide Gravesite Locator Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness Tombstone tourist Colker, web site answers grave concerns about stars. Web site attracts millions of grave-seekers, Find VIPs who R. I. P. through online cemetery. Genealogy, Find a Grave tremendous on many different levels, terre Haute, Indiana, Community Newspaper Holdings Inc. Archived from the original on May 14,2011, tip, Find a Grave has info youre dying to know. Tracking Down Relatives, Visiting Graves Virtually, media related to Images from Find A Grave at Wikimedia Commons Official website
