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Basketball
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Basketball is a non-contact team sport played on a rectangular court by two teams of five players each. The objective is to shoot a ball through a hoop 18 inches in diameter and 10 feet high that is mounted to a backboard at each end of the court. The game was invented in 1891 by Dr. James Naismith, a team can score a field goal by shooting the ball through the basket being defended by the opposition team during regular play. A field goal scores three points for the team if the player shoots from behind the three-point line. A team can also score via free throws, which are worth one point, the team with the most points at the end of the game wins, but additional time is mandated when the score is tied at the end of regulation. The ball can be advanced on the court by passing it to a teammate and it is a violation to lift, or drag, ones pivot foot without dribbling the ball, to carry it, or to hold the ball with both hands then resume dribbling. The game has many techniques for displaying skill—ball-handling, shooting, passing, dribbling, dunking, shot-blocking. The point guard directs the on court action of the team, implementing the coachs game plan, Basketball is one of the worlds most popular and widely viewed sports. Outside North America, the top clubs from national leagues qualify to continental championships such as the Euroleague, the FIBA Basketball World Cup attracts the top national teams from around the world. Each continent hosts regional competitions for teams, like EuroBasket. The FIBA Womens Basketball World Cup features the top womens basketball teams from continental championships. The main North American league is the WNBA, whereas the EuroLeague Women has been dominated by teams from the Russian Womens Basketball Premier League, in early December 1891, Canadian Dr. He sought a vigorous indoor game to keep his students occupied, after rejecting other ideas as either too rough or poorly suited to walled-in gymnasiums, he wrote the basic rules and nailed a peach basket onto a 10-foot elevated track. Basketball was originally played with a soccer ball and these laces could cause bounce passes and dribbling to be unpredictable. Eventually a lace-free ball construction method was invented, and this change to the game was endorsed by Naismith, dribbling was not part of the original game except for the bounce pass to teammates. Passing the ball was the means of ball movement. Dribbling was eventually introduced but limited by the shape of early balls. Dribbling only became a part of the game around the 1950s
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Radford Highlanders men's basketball
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The Radford Highlanders mens basketball represents Radford University in NCAA Division I intercollegiate mens basketball competition. A member of the Big South Conference, the current head coach is Mike Jones, the Highlanders play at the Dedmon Center, which has a capacity of 3,000. The Highlanders have appeared in two NCAA Tournaments, the Highlanders have appeared in the College Basketball Invitational two times. Steve Robinson was one of the first scholarship athletes ever at Radford University, Robinson was a two-year starter and co-captain for the mens basketball team from 1978–80, averaging 10.8 points and 5.8 rebounds in 54 games. Robinson averaged 11.5 points and 6.8 rebounds during one of Radfords greatest seasons ever and he hit 51.7 percent of his field goals, and later distinguished himself as an assistant coach at RU from 1983–86. The Roanoke native earned both his bachelors and masters degrees from Radford, and has gone on to success as a collegiate head coach. Robinson led the University of Tulsa to three consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances before landing the coaching position at Florida State University. At Florida State, Robinson led the Noles to 3 NCAA tournament appearances, Robinson is currently an assistant coach with the University of North Carolina Tarheels. Smith finished his sterling four-year basketball career from 1981–1985 as the schools leading scorer and rebounder. In the process, the 6–5 Amherst, Va. native keyed Radfords move from NAIA competition to NCAA Division II play, a fierce competitor, Smith started each of Radfords 107 games during his career and shot 52.7 percent from the field. He scored 1,313 points and pulled down 739 rebounds, leading the team in rebounding, remaining active at his alma mater, Smith has served on the Athletic Association Advisory Council and on the National Alumni Association Executive Council. Shelburne, a native of nearby Snowville, Va. became only the fourth Radford mens basketball player to more than 1,000 points. A three-time team Most Valuable Player, he led the Highlanders in scoring in 1989–90 and he never missed a game during his four-year career, playing in 116 consecutive contests. He averaged 11.5 points per game and shot 51.8 percent from the field, shelburne finished in 1991 as the schools all-time leading scorer with 1,332 points. Doug Day completed his Radford career as the NCAA Division I career leader in three-point baskets made and he sank 401 three-pointers during his career from 1989–1993, and left RU as the schools all-time leading scorer with 2,027 points. Day led the nation in three-point baskets per game with 4.03 per contest and he averaged 17.3 ppg for his career, and left Radford ranked second on the Big South Conference career scoring chart. Days offensive prowess helped RU to back-to-back 20-win seasons in 1990–91 and 1991–92, Day earned a degree in education from RU in 1993. Despite only playing two seasons at Radford, Artsiom Parakhouski won the Big South Player of the Year twice and his senior season he led the nation in rebounds per game with a 13.35 rebounds per game average
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Big South Conference
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The Big South Conference is a collegiate athletic conference affiliated with the NCAAs Division I. Originally a non-football conference, the Big South began sponsoring football in 2002 and its football teams are part of the Football Championship Subdivision. Charter members included Armstrong State, Augusta, Campbell University, Baptist College, Coastal Carolina University, Radford University, the expansion of membership occurred during the 1980s and 90s. In that same year, VMI also joined the conference for all sports. Presbyterian College joined the conference in 2007, moving up from Division II, gardner–Webb, which had been a football-only member since 2002, joined the conference for all sports on July 1,2008. Campbell rejoined the Big South for all sports except football in the 2011–12 athletic year, in 2014, following the departure of VMI, the conference returned to a single-division structure. On September 1,2015, Coastal Carolina announced they would leave the following the 2015–16 school year to transition to FBS-level football. On June 30,2016, the day before the joined the Sun Belt. This was the first time in history that a team won an NCAA championship in any sport. In September 2016, the Big South and the ASUN Conference announced a partnership that will effectively combine the two conferences in that sport. At the time of announcement, the only ASUN member that played scholarship football, the partnership will provide a guaranteed football home to the leagues current three non-scholarship football programs should they upgrade to scholarship status. In November 2016, Campbell announced that it would begin offering scholarships, UNA has won three Division II NCAA national championships in football and has won at least a share of the Gulf South Conference football championship for four consecutive seasons through 2016. Three months later, Liberty announced that it would begin a transition to FBS football in July 2017, presumably, the school will remain a Big South member in non-football sports, barring an invitation to an FBS conference in the interim. He also said the Big South Basketball Tournaments will be held at a single, the divisional setup was as follows, In mens and womens basketball, teams played the five other divisional opponents twice, one home and one away. They played teams outside of the division once each and this cut the number of conference games to 16, as opposed to 18 both before and after the realignment. Following the departure of VMI for the Southern Conference in 2014, the returned to a single-division structure. Augusta State was merged into Georgia Regents University in January 2013, the Big South sponsors championship competition in nine mens and ten womens NCAA sanctioned sports. Davidson has competed as a member in womens lacrosse
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New London, Connecticut
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New London is a seaport city and a port of entry on the northeast coast of the United States. It is located at the mouth of the Thames River in New London County, for several decades beginning in the early 19th century, New London was one of the worlds three busiest whaling ports, along with Nantucket and New Bedford, Massachusetts. The wealth that whaling brought into the city furnished the capital to fund much of the present architecture. New London subsequently became home to shipping and manufacturing industries. New London is now known in Connecticut for its wealth of art. The city is home to the United States Coast Guard Academy, Connecticut College, Mitchell College, the Coast Guard Station New London and New London Harbor is home port to the U. S. Coast Guard Cutter Chinook and the Coast Guards tall ship Eagle. New London had a population of 27,620 at the 2010 census, the Norwich-New London metropolitan area includes twenty-one towns and 274,055 people. The area was called Nameaug by the Pequot Indians, John Winthrop, Jr. founded the first English settlement here in 1646, making it about the 13th town settled in Connecticut. Inhabitants informally referred to it as Nameaug or as Pequot after the tribe, in the 1650s, the colonists wanted to give the town the official name of London after London, England, but the Connecticut General Assembly wanted to name it Faire Harbour. The citizens protested, declaring that they would prefer it to be called Nameaug if it couldnt be officially named London, the legislature relented, and the town was officially named New London on March 10,1658. The harbor was considered to be the best deep water harbor on Long Island Sound, famous New Londoners during the American Revolution include Nathan Hale, William Coit, Richard Douglass, Thomas & Nathaniel Shaw, Gen. Samuel Parsons, printer Timothy Green, and Samuel Seabury. It is often noted that this raid on New London and Groton was intended to divert General Washington, the main defensive fort for New London was Fort Griswold, located across the Thames River in Groton. It was well known to Arnold, who sold its secrets to the British fleet so that they could avoid its artillery fire, after overrunning New Londons Fort Trumbull, Ft. All told, more than 52 British soldiers and 83 militia were killed, New London suffered over 6 militia killed and 24 wounded, while Arnold and the British and Hessian raiding party suffered an equal amount. Connecticuts independent legislature made New London one of the first two cities brought from de facto to formalized incorporations in its January session of 1784, along with New Haven, during the War of 1812, torpedoes were employed in attempts to destroy British vessels and protect American harbors. In fact, a torpedo was used in an unsuccessful attempt to destroy HMS Ramillies while in New Londons harbor. Hardy to warn the Americans to cease efforts with the use of any boat in this cruel and unheard-of warfare. For several decades beginning in the early 19th century, New London was one of the three busiest whaling ports in the world, along with Nantucket and New Bedford, Massachusetts
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Gettysburg College
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Gettysburg College is a private, four-year liberal arts college founded in 1832, in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States, adjacent to the famous battlefield. The 225-acre campus is located at 300 North Washington Street in the Northwest corner of the town, known as the Bullets, the school hosts 24 NCAA Division III mens and womens teams, with a large number of club, intramural, and recreational programs. Gettysburg College has about 2,700 students, with equal numbers of men and women. Gettysburg students come from 43 states and 35 countries, in 2012, U. S. News & World Report ranked it 46th among Best Liberal Arts Colleges. In 2015, the Princeton Review ranked Gettysburg College as the 11th in its list of the Best Schools for Internships and its also consistently rated as one of the most beautiful campuses in the United States, due to its close proximity to the Gettysburg Battlefield National Park. The college is the home of The Gettysburg Review, a literary magazine, Gettysburg College was founded in 1832, as a sister institution for the Lutheran Theological Seminary. Both owe their inception to Thaddeus Stevens, a Radical Republican, the colleges original name was Pennsylvania College, it was founded by Samuel Simon Schmucker. The school had money troubles within four years, forcing all founding members to leave their posts, after a failed agreement to combine with the Philadelphia College of Medicine in 1858, the college was forced to close the medical school in 1861. Students from the southern states had withdrawn to return home. In June 1863, southern Pennsylvania was invaded by Confederate forces during the Gettysburg Campaign, many local militia forces were formed around the area between Chambersburg and Philadelphia to face the oncoming foe. Among these units was Gettysburgs 26th Pennsylvania Emergency Militia Regiment, composed mostly of students from the College and Seminary, the 26th PEMR was mustered into service on June 22,1863. Four days later, the students saw combat just north of town, casualties were light on both sides, but about 100 of the militiamen were captured and paroled. During the Battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania Hall, or Old Dorm, was used as both a signal station and field hospital. Due to the position it held, it was used by both Confederate and Union troops during the battle for signal work and surgery. On November 19,1863, College President Henry Louis Baugher gave the benediction at the opening the National Soldiers’ Cemetery at Gettysburg. Classes were canceled at the college as students and faculty to hear the now famous Address, Henry Baugher was the president of Gettysburg College from 1850 until his death in 1868. Early in his career, Dwight D. Eisenhower and his wife, Mamie. Both were fond of the town, so decided to retire to a working farm adjacent to the battlefield after he left the army
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University of Tulsa
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The University of Tulsa is a private university located in Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States. The university is affiliated with the Presbyterian Church. The university is renowned for its programs in law, English, computer science, natural sciences, psychology and its faculty includes prominent scholars, scientists, and writers, including Russian dissident poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko, political scientist Robert Donaldson and others. The campuss design is predominantly Collegiate Gothic, the university manages the Gilcrease Museum, which includes one of the largest collections of American Western art in the world, and in 2016, The Bob Dylan Archive was placed at the university. TUs athletic teams are known as the Tulsa Golden Hurricane. The Presbyterian School for Girls was founded in Muskogee, Indian Territory, in 1894, the young school expanded to become Henry Kendall College, named in honor of Reverend Henry Kendall, secretary of the Presbyterian Board of Home Missions. The first president was William A. Caldwell, who served a brief, Kendall College, while still in Muskogee, granted the first post-secondary degree in Oklahoma in June 1898. Under King, the college was moved from its location in downtown Muskogee to a larger campus on lands donated by Creek Nation Chief Pleasant Porter. The opening of the new campus coincided with the start of the tenure of the third president, over the next ten years, Evans oversaw the struggling schools growth. At the request of the administration, the Synod of Indian Territory assumed control as trustees, when the administration was approached by the comparatively smaller town of Tulsa and offered a chance to move, the decision was made to relocate. The Tulsa Commercial Club decided to bid for the college, Club members who packaged a bid in 1907 to move the college to Tulsa included, B. Betters, H. O. McClure, L. N. Butts, W. L. North, James H. Hall, stebbins, Rev. Charles W. Kerr, C. H. Nicholson. The offer included $100,000,20 acres of real estate, the school opened to thirty-five students in September 1907, two months before Oklahoma became a state. These first students attended classes at the First Presbyterian Church until permanent buildings could be erected on the new campus and this became the start of higher education in Tulsa. Kendall Hall, the first building of the new school, was completed in 1908 and was followed by two other buildings. All three buildings have since demolished, with Kendall the last to be razed in 1972. The bell that hung in the Kendall Building tower was saved and displayed in Bayless Plaza. In 1918, the Methodist Church proposed building a college in Tulsa, the proposed college was to be named McFarlin College
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Connecticut College
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Connecticut College is a private liberal arts college located in New London, Connecticut. It is a residential, four-year undergraduate institution, with nearly all of its approximately 1,900 students living on campus. Students choose courses from 41 majors, including an interdisciplinary, self-designed major, forbes ranked Connecticut College 81st in its 2016 overall list, 45th in the Northeast, 68th among private colleges, and 39th among liberal arts schools. Forbes also ranked Connecticut College 58th in Grateful Grads, U. S. News & World Report ranked the school 45th among the top liberal arts colleges in 2014. The college competes athletically in the New England Small College Athletic Conference, the college was chartered in 1911 in response to Wesleyan Universitys decision to stop admitting women. Elizabeth C. Wright and other Wesleyan alumnae convinced others to found this new college, to that end, the institution was founded as the Connecticut College for Women. Financial assistance from the city of New London, its residents, the land upon which the college sits was a dairy farm owned by Charles P. Alexander of Waterford. He died in 1904 and his wife Harriet Alexander died in 1911, according to an October 12,1935 article in the Hartford Daily Times, marking the Colleges 20th anniversary, On September 27,1915 the college opened its doors to students. The entering class was made up of 99 freshmen students, candidates for degrees, and 52 special students, a fine faculty of 23 members had been engaged and a library of 6,000 volumes had been gathered together. It was a start for this new undertaking. The College became co-educational in 1969, President Charles E. Shain cited in his announcement speech that recent evidence showed that women were becoming uninterested in attending womens colleges. Admission to the college is considered selective by U. S. News & World Report. In the 2016 college rankings of U. S. News & World Report and these figures represent a significant decline in the colleges traditional ranking within the top 25 liberal arts colleges in the country in the 1990s and early 2000s. Starting with the class of 2020, students at Connecticut College will be encouraged to follow a new general education curriculum called Connections. Connecticut College has a history of research work and students are encouraged to make conference presentations. Graduating seniors are awarded prestigious fellowships and grants such as the U. S. Connecticut College has been recognized as a top producer of Fulbright awardees, producing, in 2012, the College had 179 full-time professors in Academic Year 2013-14, 92% hold a doctorate or equivalent. The student-faculty ratio is about 9 to 1, the main campus has three residential areas
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Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens men's basketball
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The Delaware Fightin Blue Hens mens basketball team is the basketball team that represents University of Delaware in Newark, Delaware. The schools team competes in the Colonial Athletic Association. Notre Dame assistant coach Martin Ingelsby was named head coach May 24,2016, in seven appearances in postseasons tournaments, the Fightin Blue Hens are yet to win a postseason game. The Fightin Blue Hens have appeared in the NCAA tournament five times, the Fightin Blue Hens have appeared in the National Invitation Tournament one time. The Fightin Blue Hens have appeared in the College Basketball Invitational one time
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VCU Rams men's basketball
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The VCU Rams mens basketball team is the intercollegiate mens basketball program that represents Virginia Commonwealth University. The Rams joined the Atlantic 10 Conference in the 2012–13 season after competing in the Colonial Athletic Association. In 2017, VCU was ranked the 40th most valuable mens basketball program in the country by the Wall Street Journal, with a valuation of $56.9 million dollars, VCU ranks second in the Commonwealth of Virginia, and second in the A10 Conference. The team is coached by Mike Rhoades, since 1999, the team has played home basketball games at the E. J. Wade Arena at the Stuart C. Siegel Center in Richmond, Virginia Commonwealth has made it to the NCAA Final Four once in its programs history, in 2011. The Rams have also won ten regular season championships, four from the Sun Belt, five from the CAA, the official student supporter group is known as the Rowdy Rams. The team is known for its Final Four run in the 2011 NCAA Division I Mens Basketball Tournament. While the team had made nine NCAA Tournament appearances beforehand, never had the Rams made it beyond the round of the tournament. In 2011, the Rams journey to the Final Four began in one of the four opening games, commonly called play-in games. Thus, VCU became the first team to advance from the First Four to the Final Four, the VCU Rams mens basketball program was founded in 1968, at the same time as the merger of the Richmond Professional Institute and the Medical College of Virginia. In the 1968–69 season as an independent team, the program played its first ever season, coached by Benny Dees and assisted by Landy Watson and Vann Brackin for their first two seasons, Dees led the team to two winning records, before being replaced by Chuck Noe. Under the coaching of J. D. Barnett, the Rams earned fourth berths into the NCAA Mens Division I Basketball Championship, each being their first four berths, during Barnetts six years coaching the team, only twice did the Rams not win the Sun Belt Conference. The Rams became the first team to sweep the best of 3 championship series in the CBI post-season tournament on their way to becoming the 2010 CBI Champions and it is the first post-season tournament championship, excluding conference tournaments, in the history of the program. They entered the tournament as a #12 seed in the East Region and were eliminated in the first round by #5 Iowa and it would not be long before the Rams returned to the tournament. The following year the Rams posted a 24–5 record on their way to the Sun Belt Conference regular season, the Rams entered the tournament as the #5 seed in the East region and defeated #12 Long Island before being eliminated by #4 Tennessee in overtime in the second round 56–58. The Rams would return to the tournament in 1983, the Rams, the #5 seed in the East region, defeated #12 seed La Salle in the first round and were eliminated in the second round by #4 seed Georgia 54–56. The Rams lost their game by the same margin to #4 Tennessee in 1981. The 1984 tournament held similar results for the Rams squad and they entered the tournament as a #6 seed in the East Region and defeated #11 Northeastern before being eliminated by #3 Syracuse
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Tulsa Golden Hurricane men's basketball
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The Tulsa Golden Hurricane mens basketball team represents the University of Tulsa in Tulsa, in the U. S. state of Oklahoma. The team participates in the American Athletic Conference, the Golden Hurricane hired Frank Haith from Missouri on April 17,2014 to replace Danny Manning, who had resigned to take the Wake Forest job after the 2013–14 season. The team has long been successful, especially since the hiring of Nolan Richardson in 1980, many big-name coaches previously worked at Tulsa, like University of Kansas coach Bill Self and Minnesota coach Tubby Smith. The Hurricane have been to the NCAA Tournament 14 times in their history, in addition, they have won two National Invitation Tournaments, in 1981 and 2001, and one CBI tournament. In 2005, Street & Smiths named the University of Tulsa as the 59th best college basketball program of all time, Clarence Iba, brother of Henry Iba, helped to springboard Tulsa to success when named the head coach in 1949. He coached at the school for 11 years, the longest tenure of any Tulsa coach and he became the first coach in NCAA history to win 50 games in his first two seasons. In the 1990s and 2000s, a succession of Tulsa coaches went on to big name programs across the country, including Tubby Smith, Buzz Peterson, the team remained successful throughout the string of coaches. Doug Wojcik, coach from 2005 to 2012, is the all-time winningest coach at the school with 140 wins, notable assistants in the programs history have included Billy Gillispie, Flip Saunders, Kevin O’Neill, Tom Izzo, Mike Anderson and Ron Jirsa. Tulsa has had a series of players at the program. Among those who did make it to the NBA, James King, who came back to coach the program after his NBA career, and Bingo Smith had the greatest success. King was selected to the 1968 NBA All-Star Game, and Smith scored more than 10,000 points in his career, bergen in 1907, when the school still went by the name Kendall College. It went 1–1 in its first season, following the 1908–09 season, the team went on hiatus for several years before restarting for the 1913–14 season under Harvey Allen. The team hit hard times and achieved occasional modest success until the arrival of Clarence Iba in 1949, of special note is the 1942–1943 winless squad under Mike Milligan, whose team went 0–10. Under Iba, Tulsa reached the post-season for the first time in the 1953 NIT, in 1955, Iba led the Golden Hurricane to their first Missouri Valley Conference title and NCAA tournament appearance. Joe Swank succeeded Iba in 1960 and it was under Swank that the color barrier was broken in the Tulsa basketball program. Swank had some winning seasons, but the program would be without real success until the arrival of Nolan Richardson, Nolan Richardson’s hiring helped to usher in a new era of success at Tulsa that has remained fairly consistent since then. He led the team the NIT Championship in the 1980–1981 season, Richardson also won two MVC regular season and two MVC tournament championships in his five season tenure. His flamboyant personality made him popular, his teams adopted McFadden & Whiteheads Aint No Stopping Us Now as their theme song during the Richardson years
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Belmont Abbey College
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Belmont Abbey College is a private liberal-arts Catholic college located in Belmont, North Carolina, USA, about 15 miles west of Uptown Charlotte. It was founded in 1876 by the Benedictine monks of Belmont Abbey, the school is affiliated with the Roman Catholic Church and the Order of Saint Benedict. It is endorsed by The Newman Guide to Choosing a Catholic College, offering an undergraduate education, the college enrolls students from diverse ethnic, cultural, and religious backgrounds. As a result of the closing of Sacred Heart College, Belmont Abbey is the college in North Carolina affiliated with the Roman Catholic Church. Belmont Abbey College was founded in 1876 as St. Marys College by Benedictine monks from Saint Vincent Archabbey in Pennsylvania, Father Jeremiah OConnell purchased Caldwell farm and donated the land to the Benedictines, hoping the community would found a Catholic educational institution in the Carolinas. On April 21,1876, Father Herman Wolfe, from St. Vincents, in 1878, the college held its first commencement exercises. Katharine Drexel, a benefactor of the monastery and college, visited Belmont Abbey in 1904, the present name of the college was adopted in 1913. In 1967 John Oetgen, college president and Benedictine priest, conferred a degree on the Protestant evangelist Billy Graham. Originally a college for men, Belmont Abbey became a coeducational institution in 1972. In 1987, Sacred Heart College for women merged with the Abbey, the Belmont Abbey Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993. It encompasses 14 contributing buildings,3 contributing sites,1 contributing structure and it includes at its heart the separately listed Belmont Abbey Cathedral. Other contributing buildings include the Brothers Building, Old Science, Jubilee Hall, The Monastery, the College Building, Saint Leo Hall, Maurus Hall is centrally located on campus and houses a student lounge, grill, and the Holy Grounds coffee shop. Across from Maurus Hall is the Haid, which serves as a student, the Haid was originally built as a gymnasium. The Abbey Players now perform there, along Abbey Lane, towards the far end of the campus, are the Vincent Abbot Taylor Library and the William Gaston Science Hall. Administrative offices are located in Robert Stowe Hall, with classrooms on the second, St. Leos Hall, built in the American Benedictine style, houses the Campus Book Store and Catholic Shop on the first floor. Professorial offices are located in St. Leos Hall, and Grace Auditorium is located on the third floor, the quad is located between the Poellath and OConnell residence halls, both constructed in the early 1960s. Raphael Arthur Hall, constructed in 1967, offers students individual rooms and sits on the hill above Poellath, the St. Josephs Eucharistic Adoration Chapel, dedicated in 2008, is across from Campus Police. Wheeler Athletic Center, completed in 1970, is located behind Poellath Hall, at the back of the campus are the four Cuthbert Allen Apartment buildings, built in 1989
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Georgia Bulldogs basketball
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The Georgia Bulldogs basketball program is the mens college basketball team representing the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia. Established in 1891, the team has competed in the Southeastern Conference since its inception in 1932, as of 2014 the Bulldogs have amassed a record of 1334–1237. The school has produced a number of basketball greats, notably Basketball Hall of Famer Dominique Wilkins. The teams current head coach is Mark Fox, in just his second season, Fox coached the Bulldogs to a 21–11 record, including a 9–7 record in conference play, and their first at-large NCAA Tournament bid since 2002. Georgia was a member of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association. Georgia participated in the SIAA from its establishment in 1895 until 1921, in 1921, the Bulldogs, along with 12 other teams, left the SIAA and formed the Southern Conference. In 1932, the Georgia Bulldogs left the Southern Conference to form, coach Rex Enright led Georgia to great success in the old Southern Conference during the 1931 and 1932 seasons. His 1931 team finished with a 23–2 record, the Bulldogs were upset in the Southern Conference tournament semi-finals by Maryland, 26–25. The 1932 team didnt have the record that the 1931 team did. But this team did something that the years team could not do in winning the Southern Conference tournament defeating Mississippi State, Virginia, Duke. Coach Hugh Durham brought Georgia to its first ever post season appearance in 1981 and that team finished with a 19–12 record. They earned an NIT bid and the surrounding the program earned them home games in first defeating Old Dominion. The 1982 Bulldogs were 19–12 were once again NIT bound and this time UGA made it all the way to the NIT Final Four defeating Temple, Maryland, and Virginia Tech before losing a heart breaker to Purdue at Madison Square Garden. These two teams marked the beginning of a post season streak of eight seasons, longest in Georgia basketball history. This string included three NCAA appearances and five NIT bids and this was a remarkable streak of consistency for a program that had never before experienced the post season beyond the SEC tournament. Former NBA star Dominique Wilkins is considered the greatest player in school history, however, Wilkins never played in the NCAA tournament, the Bulldogs made their first NCAA appearance in 1983—which would have been Wilkins senior year had he not opted for the NBA. The 1983 team made it to the Final Four of the NCAA Championship before being eliminated by eventual champion North Carolina State, the latter two victories coming at the Carrier Dome in Syracuse, NY. UGA previously had won the Southeastern Conference tournament in Birmingham, AL defeating Ole Miss, Tennessee, the 1987 Georgia basketball team suffered injury after injury after injury leaving the team with only seven players available
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Dayton Flyers men's basketball
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The Dayton Flyers mens basketball team is a college basketball program that competes in NCAA Division I and the Atlantic 10 Conference representing the University of Dayton in Ohio. The Flyers play their games at University of Dayton Arena. Dayton is one of the 50 winningest Division I college basketball programs, a 2015 study of college basketball team valuations placed Dayton #23 in the nation with 2014 adjusted revenues in excess of $16.6 million and a valuation of nearly $84 million. The first collegiate basketball team play at Dayton, then known as St. Marys Institute. Early rivalries with Notre Dame and Miami began in the 1908–09 season, william OMalley is recognized as the first coach of the Saints, but the team had no coach for the first six seasons. Harry Solimano, believed to be a former Saints player, succeeded OMalley in the 1910 season and coached the four seasons. In 1920 the school changed its name to the University of Dayton, also in 1920, the school began playing nearby Xavier University, a rivalry that has spawned 156 meetings as of 2014. Games were originally played in a gymnasium, but later moved to the nearby University of Dayton Arena. Harry Baujan became both the football and basketball coach in 1923 and later became the athletic director. Through the 1920s and 1930s, the program was subordinate to the football program with respect to resources. In 1939, Baujan hired James Carter as both an assistant football coach and head basketball coach, Carter moved to expand Daytons national profile by issuing basketball scholarships and scheduling trips to east coast basketball powers such as St Johns and St Josephs. Carter is also recognized as the first Dayton coach to play an African American student-athlete, world War II brought a two-year hiatus to the basketball program between 1943 and 1945. In 1947, Tom Blackburn succeeded Carter as the schools first full-time head basketball coach, Blackburn would recruit future NBA player Don Meineke, along with local standouts Junior Norris & Chuck Grigsby in 1948 to form the nucleus of the schools first nationally recognized teams. The 1950–51 Flyers reached #13 in the AP Poll and the finals of the NIT before bowing out to Brigham Young, the following year, the Flyers also reached the NIT Finals, while also participating in the NCAA Tournament for the first time, finishing in the regional semi-final. In light of the growing national stature and increasing fan base. The foundation established by Blackburn led to Dayton being the most successful Division I basketball program through the 1950s and 1960s, Tom Blackburn became ill with terminal lung cancer during the 1963–64 season. Don Donoher, a former Dayton player and assistant coach took over for the three games of the 1963–64 season. Donohers 1967–68 squad began the season ranked #6 in the country in the AP Poll, nonetheless, Donohers Flyers made a successful run through the 1968 NIT field, besting Kansas in the championship to win their second NIT crown
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Marshall Thundering Herd men's basketball
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The Marshall Thundering Herd mens basketball team represents Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia. They compete in the NCAA Division I as a member of Conference USA, Marshall has advanced to the NCAA Tournament five times through the years, most recently in 1987. The Thundering Herd has also played in the NIT five times, Marshall won the NAIA National Championship in 1947, and is 7-2 all-time in the first collegiate basketball tournament, one year older than the NIT and four years older than the NCAA Tournament. Notable former Marshall basketball players include NBA and Marshall Hall of Famer Hal Greer, Greer was selected to 10 consecutive NBA All-Star games. Greer was named NBA All-Star Game MVP in 1968, one year after leading the Philadelphia 76ers to the NBA title, additionally, Marshalls Andy Tonkovich was the first overall selection in the BAA draft in 1948. Mike DAntoni, current head coach of the Houston Rockets and former NBA Coach of the Year winner with the Phoenix Suns, the legendary coach of the Thundering Herd was Cam Henderson. Henderson, acknowledged as the creator of the zone defense. Henderson led Marshall to three consecutive Buckeye Conference titles from 1936–39, but his greatest team was the 1946–47 team, Marshall also played in the NAIB Tournament in 1938 and 1948, losing in the quarterfinals. His 1947–48 team won the Helms Foundation Los Angeles Invitational with a 46–44 win over Syracuse, Andy Tonkovich, who played on that team, was the first draft pick of the 1948 BAA draft by Providence. Center Charlie Slack set a still NCAA record of 25.6 rebounds per game for Hendersons final team in 1954–55, Tonkovich repeated on the second team in 1948. Walt Walowac was a first team Helms Foundation Small College All-American for Henderson in 1953, francis, Wichita State, Colorado, Cal, CCNY, Long Island Univ. Hendersons first basketball All-American, Jule Rivlin, coached the 1955–56 Herd to its only MAC title, byrd was an All-American in 1959, first team on the Chuck Taylor/Converse team and second team on UPI and Helms Foundation. Henderson and Tonkovich are both members of the Helms Foundation NAIA Hall of Fame, Marshall was coached to the NIT by Ellis T. Johnson in 1967, advancing to the semifinals thanks in part to George Stone scoring 46 points versus Nebraska before his five-years in the ABA. Johnson brought the Herd back to the NIT in 1968 behind point guard Dan DAntoni, carl Tacy coached the Herd to a 23–4 season in 1971–72, losing to Southwest Louisiana, 112–101 in the NCAA Tournament. Marshall was ranked at high at No.8 in the nation that season, bob Daniels was the Herd coach beginning in the 1972–73 season for the NIT appearance. Mike DAntoni was the point guard for the NCAA Tournament team in 1972 and the NIT team in 1973 and he was drafted by the Royals, played four seasons in the NBA before moving to greater glory in the Italian League, winning titles as a player and coach. Kobe Bryant wore No.8 his first few seasons in the NBA because thats the number DAntoni wore when he played with Kobes father in Italy. Marshall advanced to the schools first conference game in 1978
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Minnesota Golden Gophers men's basketball
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The Minnesota Golden Gophers mens basketball team represents the University of Minnesota Twin Cities campus. The Golden Gophers have played in the Big Ten since the conference began sponsoring basketball in 1905, the Gophers had great success in the early years of basketball, but have been largely overshadowed by other programs since the end of World War I. In total, the Gophers have won nine Big Ten championships, college basketball research organizations have retroactively awarded Minnesota national championships in 1902,1903, and 1919. The team has also had several instances of NCAA sanctions on the program that have affected performance and recruiting. In the 1970s, the Gophers were in a violent brawl with the Ohio State Buckeyes and were barred from post-season appearances for two seasons after an incident involving the illegal resale of tickets. Still more severe was the academic scandal under then-coach Clem Haskins that resulted in the forfeit of a Final Four appearance. Initially, the Gophers team formed without any organized coach, L. J. Cooke took over the team in 1897. Cooke was put on the University payroll on a basis in early 1897 and full-time by the fall. Cooke remained the coach of the Gophers for 28 seasons, Dave MacMillan, who coached the team from 1927 to 1942 and 1945 to 1948, had the second longest tenure as coach at 18 seasons. The Gophers have had several NBA coaches grace the sidelines, John Kundla took over as Gophers head coach after the Minneapolis Lakers departed for Los Angeles. Bill Fitch and Bill Musselman both coached the team for a couple seasons before departing for the NBA and ABA respectively, the program has had a fair degree of stability with their coaching staff. Tubby Smith became the 16th head coach in Gopher basketball history when hired in 2007, Five coaches led the team for more than 10 seasons, Cooke, McMillan, O. B. Cowles, Jim Dutcher, and Clem Haskins, on March 25,2013, Tubby Smith was fired after failing to reach the Sweet Sixteen again. The Gophers hired Richard Pitino on April 3,2013, the Golden Gophers have had many successful players come through the program throughout its history. In the early years of basketball, when the Gophers had success, george Tuck was a dominant center, and the first All-America for the Gophers in 1905. Frank Lawler was another star, he led the Big Ten in scoring in 1911 and was also named to the All-America team. In 1950, Lawler was named the greatest player in Gopher basketball history, Hall of Fame coach John Kundla was also a Gophers star and helped lead the team to its 1937 Big Ten Championship. With the decline of the stature of the Gophers program, fewer elite players have joined the team, the diminished reputation has not, however, prevented some superior athletes from coming to the Minneapolis campus
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Bethel University (Minnesota)
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The main campus is located in Arden Hills, Minnesota, a suburb of St. Paul, and the seminary has a second campus in San Diego. Fully accredited by the Higher Learning Commission—North Central Association of Colleges and Schools, Bethel University is affiliated with and supported by the congregations of Converge, formerly known as the Baptist General Conference. Bethel University began in Chicago, Illinois, as a seminary for Baptist immigrants from Sweden, john Alexis Edgren opened a department for Scandinavian theological students in the fall of 1871 in the basement of First Swedish Baptist Church in Chicago starting in 1871. The seminary merged with Bethel Academy in Saint Paul, Minnesota in 1914, in 1931 the Academy became Bethel Junior College. The addition of a liberal arts college program created Bethel College. The school relocated from St. Paul to Arden Hills, Minnesota in 1972, beginning in 2004, the institution changed its name to Bethel University. Bethel University is divided into four different schools, each focusing on a different area, The College of Arts, according to Bethel Magazine, the freshman class of 2016 has 660 students, 59% of which are females. The College of Adults & Professional Studies offers both Bachelor of Arts Degrees and Associate of Arts Degrees, Bethel offers programs leading to the masters degree in a range of fields, including education, nursing, communication, and counseling psychology. Beginning in 2013, Bethel began offering a Master of Science in Physician Assistant, at the doctorate level, Bethel confers the Doctor of Education in Educational Administration. Arden Hills – Master of Arts Degrees in Christian Thought, Transformational Leadership, Childrens and Family Ministry, Ministry Practice, Marriage and Family Therapy, certificates in Theological Studies, and Young Life Youth Ministry. They run Southwest/Northeast and are connected on the first three floors by weather-protected skyways and tunnels, the College of Arts and Sciences has four freshman residence halls on campus. Three—Bodien Hall, Getsch Hall, and Edgren Hall—encircle a cul-de-sac just on the side of the academic buildings and are informally known as Freshman Hill. The fourth, Nelson Hall, is located nearby on the side of the buildings and is the oldest building on Bethel Universitys current campus in Arden Hills. All four freshman residence halls are set up as two-person rooms and have one bathroom per floor per building wing, two residence halls, Arden Village and Lissner Hall, mostly house sophomores. Both consist of suites, however, Lissner is a single. Lissner is farther from the buildings than Arden Village, but it is the newest residence hall on campus. Two residence complexes, North Village and Fountain Terrace, house mostly juniors, as apartment-style residence halls, North Village and Fountain Terrace offer a full kitchen in every suite, and suite capacity varies between 3 and 6. North Village is a collection of five buildings formerly used as housing for Bethel Seminary students, Fountain Terrace, meanwhile, is a renovated apartment complex located about 2 miles west of the main campus
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College recruiting
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In college athletics in the United States, recruiting is a term used to describe for the process in which college coaches add prospective student athletes to their roster each off-season. This process typically culminates in a coach extending an athletic scholarship offer to a player who is about to graduate high school or a junior college. During this recruiting process, schools must comply with rules that uphold the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s underlying principles of fairness and these rules or bylaws define who may be involved in the recruiting process, when recruiting may occur and the conditions under which recruiting may be conducted. Recruiting rules seek, as much as possible, to control intrusions into the lives of prospective student-athletes, to be considered a “recruited prospective student-athlete”, athletes must be approached by a college coach or representative about participating in that college’s athletic program. NCAA guidelines specify how and when they can be contacted, letters, telephone calls, and in-person conversations are limited to certain frequency and dates during and after the students junior year. The NCAA also determines when the athletes can be contacted by dividing the year into four recruiting and non-recruiting periods,1, during a contact period, recruiters may make in-person, on- or off-campus contacts and evaluations. Coaches can also write and/or phone athletes during this period, during an evaluation period, they can only assess academic qualifications and playing abilities. Letters and phone calls are permitted, no in-person, off-campus recruiting contacts arent, during a quiet period, they may make in-person recruiting contacts only on the college campus. Off-campus, recruiters are limited to phone calls and letter-writing, during a dead period, they cannot make in-person recruiting contacts or evaluations on- or off-campus or permit official/unofficial visits. However, phone calls and letters are permitted, during the recruiting process, the prospective student-athlete goes on an official visit to the school that theyre being recruited by. An official visit is a prospective student-athlete’s visit to a college campus paid for by the college, NCAA recruiting bylaws limit the number of official visits a recruit may take to five. The NCAA has imposed stringent rules limiting the manner in which competing university-firms may bid for the newest crop of prospective student-athletes. Such rules limit the number of visits, which a student-athlete may make to a campus, the amount of his expenses that may be covered by the university-firm. During recruitment, a coach may ask a prospective player to sign a National Letter of Intent or NLI for short. The NLI is a program with regard to both institutions and student-athletes. No prospective student-athlete or parent is required to sign the NLI, by signing a NLI, a prospective student-athlete agrees to attend the designated college or university for one academic year. Student-athletes are assured of a scholarship for a minimum of one full academic year. By emphasizing a commitment to an institution, not particular coaches or teams
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Tennessee Tech Golden Eagles men's basketball
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The Tennessee Tech Golden Eagles mens basketball team is the mens basketball team that represents Tennessee Technological University in Cookeville, Tennessee, United States. The schools team competes in the Ohio Valley Conference. The Golden Eagles have appeared in two NCAA Tournaments, the Golden Eagles have appeared in two National Invitation Tournaments. The Golden Eagles have appeared in two CollegeInsider. com Postseason Tournaments, the Golden Eagles have appeared in one Vegas 16
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College basketball
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The history of basketball is traced back to a YMCA International Training School, known today as Springfield College, located in Springfield, Massachusetts. The date of the first formal basketball game played at the Springfield YMCA Training School under Naismiths rules is generally given as December 21,1891, Basketball began to spread to college campuses by 1893. Governing bodies in Canada include U Sports and the Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association, each of these various organizations are subdivided into from one to three divisions based on the number and level of scholarships that may be provided to the athletes. The first basketball games in the United States were played at YMCAs in 1891 and 1892, by 1893, the game was being played on college campuses. The original rules for basketball were very different from todays modern rules of the sport, in the beginning James Naismith established 13 original rules, The ball may be thrown in any direction with one or both hands. The ball may be batted in any direction with one or both hands, but never with the fist, a player cannot run with the ball. The player must throw it from the spot on which he catches it, the ball must be held by the hands. The arms or body must not be used for holding it, no shouldering, holding, pushing, striking, or tripping in any way of an opponent is allowed. A foul will be called when a player is seen striking at the ball with the fist, or when violations of rules 3 and 4, if either side makes three consecutive fouls it shall count as a goal for the opponents. A goal shall be made when the ball is thrown or batted from the grounds into the basket and stays there, if the ball rests on the edges, and the opponent moves the basket, it shall count as a goal. When the ball out of bounds, it shall be thrown into the field. In case of dispute the umpire shall throw it straight into the field, the thrower-in is allowed five seconds. If he holds it longer, it shall go to the opponent, if any side persists in delaying the game, the umpire shall call a foul on them. The umpire shall be the judge of the men and shall note the fouls and he shall have power to disqualify men according to rule 5. The referee shall be judge of the ball and shall decide when the ball is in play, in bounds, to side it belongs. He shall decide when a goal has been made and keep account of the goals, the time shall be two fifteen-minute halves, with five minutes rest between. The side making the most goals in that time shall be declared the winner, the following is a list of some of the major NCAA Basketball rule changes with the year they went into effect. The first known college to field a team against an outside opponent was Vanderbilt University
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University of Georgia
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Its primary location is a 762-acre campus adjacent to the college town of Athens, Georgia, approximately an hours drive from the global city of Atlanta. The university has been labeled one of the Public Ivies, a publicly funded university considered to provide a quality of education comparable to those of the Ivy League. The university was founded in 1785 as the United States first state-chartered university and its historic North Campus is on the U. S. National Register of Historic Places as a designated historic district. The contiguous campus areas include rolling hills, gardens, and extensive green space including nature walks, fields, shrubbery, and large and varied arboreta. Close to the campus is the universitys 58-acre Health Sciences Campus that also has an extensive landscaped green space, more than 400 trees. The university offers over 140 degree programs in an array of disciplines. Consisting of thirteen separate libraries, the UGA Libraries rank among the nation’s largest and best research libraries containing 5.7 million volumes, the University of Georgia is one of 126 member institutions that comprise the Association of Research Libraries. The university is organized into seventeen schools and colleges, the university has three primary campuses. The largest one is the campus in Athens that has 460 buildings. The university has two campuses located in Atlanta and Lawrenceville, Georgia. The university operates several service and outreach stations spread across the state, the total acreage of the university in 30 Georgia counties is 41,539 acres. Varsity and intramural student athletics are a part of student life. UGA served as a member of the SEC in 1932. In their 121-year history, the varsity sports teams have won 39 national championships and 130 conference championships. The Georgia Redcoat Marching Band, the marching band of the university, plays at sports. The Senatus Academicus was composed of the Board of Visitors and the Board of Trustees with the Georgia Senate presiding over those two boards, the first meeting of the universitys board of trustees was held in Augusta, Georgia on February 13,1786. The meeting installed its first president, Abraham Baldwin, a native of Connecticut, Baldwin was a delegate to the 1787 Constitutional Convention, and one of two Georgia delegates to sign the final document. Many features on the University of Georgia campus resemble the campus of Yale, on July 2,1799, the Senatus Academicus met again in Louisville, Georgia and decided that the time was right to open the university
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Marshall University
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Edwards School of Medicine, and a regional center for cancer research, which has a national reputation for its programs in rural healthcare delivery. The forensic science program is one of nearly twenty post-graduate-level academic programs in the United States accredited by the American Academy of Forensic Sciences. The universitys digital forensics program is the first program in the world to receive accreditation in digital forensics from the Forensic Science Education Programs Accreditation Commission, the College of Business has achieved AACSB accreditation. Marshall University also operates the Robert C. Byrd Institute, with operations on both the Huntington and South Charleston campuses, as well as in Fairmont, West Virginia. The institutes goal is the transfer of technology from the departments to private industry to support job development in the region. Marshall University was founded in 1837 as a subscription school by residents of Guyandotte. In 1858, the Virginia General Assembly changed the name to Marshall College, the Civil War closed the often financially challenged school for much of the 1860s. In 1867, the West Virginia Legislature resurrected the institution as a training facility. This began the history of the college as a state-supported post-secondary institution, at that time, enrollment surpassed 1,000 students. The school began offering degrees for the first time in 1920. In 1937, the college suffered through a devastating flooding by the Ohio River, numerous structures, such as Northcott Hall and the James E. Morrow Library were extensively flooded. Much of Huntington was also damaged, and as a result. In that year the school was accredited as a university institution, however. Further expansion accelerated after World War II, in 1960, John F. Kennedy spoke at the college during his cross-country campaign for the presidency. On March 2,1961, West Virginia Legislature finally elevated Marshall to university status, the student newspaper, The Parthenon, prepared two front pages for the day, depending on the outcome of the legislatures vote. Also in 1961, WMUL-FM began operations as the first public station in West Virginia. The station, which began in the Science Building at 10 watts of power, the university rebuilt its athletic program back to respectability, and in 1977, the university joined the Southern Conference. On the evening of November 14,1970, the Thundering Herd football team, along with coaches and fans, was returning home to Huntington from Kinston, the team had just lost a game 17–14 against the East Carolina University Pirates at Ficklen Stadium in Greenville, North Carolina
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Ledyard, Connecticut
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Ledyard /ˈlɛdʒərd/ is a town in New London County, Connecticut, United States, located along the Thames River. The town is named after Colonel William Ledyard, a Revolutionary War soldier who was killed with his own saber after surrendering to the British at the end of the Battle of Groton Heights, the population was 15,051 at the 2010 census. The Foxwoods Resort Casino, owned and operated by the Mashantucket Pequot Tribe, was located in the section of Ledyard. Within the southwestern area of Ledyard is the known as Gales Ferry. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has an area of 40.0 square miles, of which 38.1 square miles is land and 1.9 square miles. Ledyard is situated north of Groton, and borders the east bank of the Thames River in southeastern Connecticut, the northern half of the Naval Submarine Base New London is located in the southwest corner of the town. Ledyard is among the areas of the United States that was covered by an ice sheet during the last Ice Age. Therefore, Ledyard has its share of interesting glacial geology, the glaciers that covered Ledyard carried the many large boulders that litter the town. The town has set aside land designated as a Glacial Park which consists of a section of end moraine and this area encompasses a segment of the Ledyard Moraine—a clast-supported boulder deposit that is anomalous in nature. The principal communities of Ledyard are Ledyard Center and the Gales Ferry section, the town also contains the Mashantucket Pequot Reservation, in the northeastern corner of the town. Andy Dick, actor/comedian, grew up in Ledyard Casey Neistat, filmmaker, grew up in Ledyard Doc Hammer, painter, the population density was 385.1 people per square mile. There were 5,486 housing units at a density of 143.8 per square mile. 16. 4% of all households were made up of individuals and 5. 1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older, the average household size was 2.78 and the average family size was 3.12. The ages of Ledyards population were spread out with,28. 3% under 186. 3% from 18 to 2431. 0% from 25 to 4425. 4% from 45 to 649. 0% from 65 years of age or older. The median age was 37 years, for every 100 females there were 97.4 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 96.6 males, the median income for a household in the town was $62,647, and the median income for a family was $69,214. Males had an income of $46,582 versus $32,339 for females. The per capita income for the town was $24,953, about 2. 9% of families and 4. 0% of the population were below the poverty line, including 4. 5% of those under age 18 and 2. 7% of those age 65 or over
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Bachelor of Arts
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A Bachelor of Arts is a bachelors degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, the sciences, or both. Bachelor of Arts degree programs take three to four years depending on the country, academic institution, and specific specializations, majors or minors. The word baccalaureus or baccalarium should not be confused with baccalaureatus, degree diplomas generally are printed on high-quality paper or parchment, individual institutions set the preferred abbreviation for their degrees. In Pakistan, the Bachelor of Arts degree can also be attained within two years as an external degree, in colleges and universities in Australia, New Zealand, Nepal and South Africa, the BA degree can be taken over three years of full-time study. Unlike in other countries, students do not receive a grade for their Bachelor of Arts degree with varying levels of honours. Qualified students may be admitted, after they have achieved their Bachelors program with an overall grade point average. Thus, to achieve a Bachelor Honours degree, a postgraduate year. A student who holds a Honours degree is eligible for entry to either a Doctorate or a very high research Master´s degree program. Education in Canada is controlled by the Provinces and can be different depending on the province in Canada. Canadian universities typically offer a 3-year Bachelor of Arts degrees, in many universities and colleges, Bachelor of Arts degrees are differentiated either as Bachelors of Arts or as honours Bachelor of Arts degree. The honours degrees are designated with the abbreviation in brackets of. It should not be confused with the consecutive Bachelor of Arts degree with Honours, Latin Baccalaureatus in Artibus Cum Honore, BA hon. de jure without brackets and with a dot. It is a degree, which is considered to be the equivalent of a corresponding maîtrise degree under the French influenced system. Going back in history, a three-year Bachelor of Arts degree was called a pass degree or general degree. Students may be required to undertake a long high-quality research empirical thesis combined with a selection of courses from the relevant field of studies. The consecutive B. cum Honore degree is essential if students ultimate goal is to study towards a two- or three-year very high research masters´ degree qualification. A student holding a Baccalaureatus Cum Honore degree also may choose to complete a Doctor of Philosophy program without the requirement to first complete a masters degree, over the years, in some universities certain Baccalaureatus cum Honore programs have been changed to corresponding master´s degrees. In general, in all four countries, the B. A. degree is the standard required for entry into a masters programme, in science, a BA hons degree is generally a prerequisite for entrance to a Ph. D program or a very-high-research-activity master´s programme
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Biology
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Biology is a natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, evolution, distribution, identification and taxonomy. Modern biology is a vast and eclectic field, composed of branches and subdisciplines. However, despite the broad scope of biology, there are certain unifying concepts within it that consolidate it into single, coherent field. In general, biology recognizes the cell as the unit of life, genes as the basic unit of heredity. It is also understood today that all organisms survive by consuming and transforming energy and by regulating their internal environment to maintain a stable, the term biology is derived from the Greek word βίος, bios, life and the suffix -λογία, -logia, study of. The Latin-language form of the term first appeared in 1736 when Swedish scientist Carl Linnaeus used biologi in his Bibliotheca botanica, the first German use, Biologie, was in a 1771 translation of Linnaeus work. In 1797, Theodor Georg August Roose used the term in the preface of a book, karl Friedrich Burdach used the term in 1800 in a more restricted sense of the study of human beings from a morphological, physiological and psychological perspective. The science that concerns itself with these objects we will indicate by the biology or the doctrine of life. Although modern biology is a recent development, sciences related to. Natural philosophy was studied as early as the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Indian subcontinent, however, the origins of modern biology and its approach to the study of nature are most often traced back to ancient Greece. While the formal study of medicine back to Hippocrates, it was Aristotle who contributed most extensively to the development of biology. Especially important are his History of Animals and other works where he showed naturalist leanings, and later more empirical works that focused on biological causation and the diversity of life. Aristotles successor at the Lyceum, Theophrastus, wrote a series of books on botany that survived as the most important contribution of antiquity to the plant sciences, even into the Middle Ages. Scholars of the medieval Islamic world who wrote on biology included al-Jahiz, Al-Dīnawarī, who wrote on botany, biology began to quickly develop and grow with Anton van Leeuwenhoeks dramatic improvement of the microscope. It was then that scholars discovered spermatozoa, bacteria, infusoria, investigations by Jan Swammerdam led to new interest in entomology and helped to develop the basic techniques of microscopic dissection and staining. Advances in microscopy also had a impact on biological thinking. In the early 19th century, a number of biologists pointed to the importance of the cell. Thanks to the work of Robert Remak and Rudolf Virchow, however, meanwhile, taxonomy and classification became the focus of natural historians
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Tubby Smith
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Orlando Henry Tubby Smith is an American college basketball coach. He is currently the mens head coach for the University of Memphis. Smith previously served in the role at the University of Tulsa, the University of Georgia, the University of Kentucky, the University of Minnesota. With Kentucky, he coached the Wildcats to the 1998 NCAA championship, in his 26 years as a head coach, Smith has achieved 24 winning seasons. In 2005, he joined Roy Williams, Nolan Richardson, Denny Crum, with Texas Techs invitation to the 2016 NCAA Tournament, Smith became only the second coach in history to lead five different teams to the NCAA tournament. Smiths three sons are following in their fathers coaching footsteps, Smith, who played for his father at the University of Georgia, is the coach at Loyola. His middle son Saul Smith played for his father at the University of Kentucky and is an assistant coach for his father, brian, his youngest son, was a point guard at Ole Miss and is an assistant coach at Windermere Preparatory School. Smith was born in Scotland, Maryland, in Saint Marys County and his large family accounts for his unusual nickname. Of all the Smith children, Tubby was most fond of staying in the washtub where the children were bathed. Smith says he tried to shake the moniker several times, and he recalls that a 10th grade teacher who didnt tolerate nicknames was the last person to call him by his proper name, Orlando. After having an offer from the University of Maryland rescinded, Smith enrolled at High Point College. He played under three different head coaches at High Point, including future boss J. D. Barnett and he lettered four times and was an all-conference performer as a senior. Smith earned a Bachelor of Science degree in health and physical education while at High Point, and also met his wife, Donna. In 1973, Smith began his career with four years at his high school alma mater – Great Mills High School in Great Mills, Maryland. His next stop was Hoke County High School in Raeford, North Carolina, Smith began as assistant coach at Virginia Commonwealth University under his former High Point coach J. D. Barnett. From 1979 to 1986, VCU amassed a 144–64 record, winning three Sun Belt Conference Championships, Smith took two important things away from his experience as an assistant coach for the Rams. First, under Barnett, Smith learned the principles of the ball-line defense, second was a relationship with fellow assistant David Hobbs, an assistant and associate head coach under Smith during his tenure at the University of Kentucky. Smith left Virginia Commonwealth in 1986 to join George Feltons staff at the University of South Carolina, Felton remembered Smith from having recruited one of his players while Smith was at Hoke High School
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University of Kentucky
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The University of Kentucky is a public co-educational university in Lexington, Kentucky. S. The institution comprises 16 colleges, a school,93 undergraduate programs,99 master programs,66 doctoral programs. The University of Kentucky has fifteen libraries on campus, young Library, a federal depository, hosting subjects related to social sciences, humanities, and life sciences collections. In recent years, the university has focused expenditures increasingly on research, the directive mandated that the university become a Top 20 public research institution, in terms of an overall ranking to be determined by the university itself, by the year 2020. Courses were offered at Ashland, The Henry Clay Estate, three years later, James Kennedy Patterson became the first president of the land-grant university and the first degree was awarded. In 1876, the university began to offer degree programs. Two years later, A&M separated from Kentucky University, which is now Transylvania University, for the new school, Lexington donated a 52-acre park and fair ground, which became the core of UKs present campus. A&M was initially a male-only institution, but began to admit women in 1880, in 1892, the official colors of the university, royal blue and white, were adopted. An earlier color set, blue and light yellow, was adopted earlier at a Kentucky-Centre College football game on December 19,1891, the particular hue of blue was determined from a necktie, which was used to demonstrate the color of royal blue. On February 15,1882, Administration Building was the first building of three completed on the present campus, three years later, the college formed the Agricultural Experiment Station, which researches issues relating to agribusiness, food processing, nutrition, water and soil resources and the environment. This was followed up by the creation of the universitys Agricultural Extension Service in 1910, the extension service became a model of the federally mandated programs that were required beginning in 1914. Patterson Hall, the schools first womens dormitory, was constructed in 1904, residents had to cross a swampy depression, where the Student Center now stands, to reach central campus. Four years later, the name was changed to the State University, Lexington, Kentucky upon reaching university status. The university led to the creation of the College of Home Economics in 1916, the College of Commerce was established in 1925, known today as the Gatton College of Business and Economics. In 1929, Memorial Hall was completed, dedicated to the 2,756 Kentuckians who died in World War I and this was followed up by the new King Library, which opened in 1931 and was named for a long-time library director, Margaret I. The universitys graduate and professional programs became racially integrated in 1949 when Lyman T. Johnson, African Americans would not be allowed to attend as undergraduates until 1954, following the US Supreme Courts Brown v. Board of Education decision. In 1939, Governor Happy Chandler appointed the first woman trustee on the University of Kentucky Board of Trustees and she served from 1939 to 1960. In 1962, Blazer Hall was opened as the Georgia M Blazer Hall for Women in tribute to her years of service as a University of Kentucky trustee
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University of Dayton
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The University of Dayton is an American private Roman Catholic national research university in Ohios sixth-largest city, Dayton. Founded in 1850 by the Society of Mary, it is one of three Marianist universities in the nation and the largest private university in Ohio, the universitys campus is located in the citys southern portion and spans 388 acres on both sides of the Great Miami River. The campus is noted for the Immaculate Conception Chapel and the University of Dayton Arena, the University also operates, in Chinas Suzhou Industrial Park, the University of Dayton China Institute. Leo Meyer, S. M. journeyed from Alsace in France to Cincinnati, but with a cholera epidemic raging to the north, Bishop John Baptist Purcell of the Cincinnati diocese, sent Father Meyer to Emmanuel parish in Dayton to tend to the sick. In Dayton, Father Meyer met local farmer John Stuart, who had lost his infant daughter Mary Louisa to cholera the year before, heartbroken, Stuart and his wife wanted to sell their Dewberry Farm property and return to Europe. Stuart accepted a St. Joseph medal and a promise of $12,000 at 6 percent interest, the property included vineyards, an orchard, a mansion, various farm buildings, and the grave of Stuarts daughter, which Meyer promised to maintain. Just a few later, the University of Dayton had its beginnings on 1 July 1850. In September, the first boarding students arrived and classes moved to the mansion, five years later, the school burned to the ground, but classes resumed within months. By 1860, when Brother Zehler became president, the enrollment was nearly 100 students, the Civil War had little direct effect on the school because most of the students were too young to serve. College preparatory classes started in 1861 along with a novitiate and school for Marianist candidates, in 1882 the university was incorporated and empowered to confer collegiate degrees by the State of Ohio. When floodwaters struck the community during the Great Dayton Flood of 1913, St. Marys College was uniquely situated and equipped to provide relief to flood victims. Because students had not returned to campus from Easter break, the college was amply stocked with food, the colleges kitchen provided meals to Miami Valley Hospital and provided 12,000 pounds of provisions to St. Elizabeth Hospital. The first night,400 refugees took shelter at St. Marys College, in all, the college assisted 800 refugees. Known at various times as St. Marys School, St. Marys Institute, in 1923, the University adopted the Dayton Flyers nickname for its athletic teams and adopted a university seal with the motto, Pro Deo et Patria, Latin for For God and Country. In the 1930s, women were admitted on a basis with men,40 years before most Catholic universities allowed women. The school expanded its programs in science, engineering, and the professions and continued to attract the children and grandchildren of Catholic immigrants. The growing Catholic presence in Dayton during the 1920s drew the hostility of the Ku Klux Klan, on 19 December 1923,12 bombs exploded throughout the campus and an 8-foot cross was set on fire. Several hundred Klansmen were routed by hundreds of residents who joined students in chasing them off
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University of Minnesota
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The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities is a public research university in Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota. The Minneapolis and St. Paul campuses are approximately 3 miles apart, and it is the oldest and largest campus within the University of Minnesota system and has the sixth-largest main campus student body in the United States, with 51,147 students in 2013–14. The university is the institution of the University of Minnesota system, and is organized into 19 colleges and schools, with sister campuses in Crookston, Duluth, Morris. Minnesota is one of Americas Public Ivy universities, which refers to top universities in the United States capable of providing a collegiate experience comparable with the Ivy League. Founded in 1851, The University of Minnesota is categorized as an R1 Doctoral University with the highest research activity in the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, Minnesota faculty, alumni, and researchers have won 25 Nobel Prizes and three Pulitzer Prizes. Notable University of Minnesota alumni include two Vice Presidents of the United States, Hubert Humphrey and Walter Mondale, and Bob Dylan, who received the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature. The University of Minnesota Twin Cities is also a member of the Association of American Universities which is an association of the 62 leading research universities in the United States and Canada. In its 2017 edition, U. S. News & World Report ranked Minnesota 38th in their Best Global University Rankings, the Times Higher Education World University Rankings for 2015 ranks Minnesota 46th in the world. In 2015, Academic Ranking of World Universities ranked the university 11th in the world for mathematics, the University of Minnesota is ranked 14 over-all among the nations top research universities by the Center for Measuring University Performance. The U. S. News & World Reports 2016 rankings placed the program of the University as the 69th-best National University in the United States. Additionally, nineteen of the Universitys graduate-school departments have been ranked in the nations top-twenty by the U. S. National Research Council, in both 2008 and 2012 U. S. News & World Report ranked the College of Pharmacy 2nd in the nation. 2016 U. S. News & Report now rank the College of Pharmacy 2nd in the nation. In 2011, U. S. News & World Report ranked the School of Public Health 8th in the nation, the University of Minnesota ranked 19th in NIH funding in 2008. Minnesota is listed as a Public Ivy in 2001 Greenes Guides The Public Ivies, the university developed Gopher, a precursor to the World Wide Web which used hyperlinks to connect documents across computers on the internet. However, the produced by CERN was favored by the public since it was freely distributed. The University also houses the Charles Babbage Institute, a research, the department has strong roots in early days of supercomputing with Seymour Cray of Cray supercomputers. Notable faculty of the department are Yousef Saad, Vipin Kumar, Jaideep Srivastava, John Riedl, some notable alumni of the department are Ed Chi, Imrich Chlamtac, Leah Culver, Jeff Dean, Mark P. McCahill, Arvind Mithal, and Calvin Mooers. Puffed rice - Alexander P. Anderson led to the discovery of puffed rice, transistorized cardiac pacemaker - Earl Bakken founded Medtronic, where he developed the first external, battery-operated, transistorized, wearable artificial pacemaker in 1957
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Southeastern Conference
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The Southeastern Conference is an American college athletic conference whose member institutions are located primarily in the Southern part of the United States. Its fourteen members include the public universities of ten states. The conference is headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, the SEC participates in the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I in sports competitions, for football, it is part of the Football Bowl Subdivision, formerly known as Division I-A. The SEC was also the first NCAA Division I conference to hold a game for college football and was one of the founding members of the Bowl Championship Series. The current SEC commissioner is Greg Sankey, the conference sponsors team championships in nine mens sports and twelve womens sports. The SEC consists of 14 member institutions located within the borders of 11 contiguous states and these divisional groupings are applied exclusively to football and baseball as well as their scheduling and standings. The other charter members were, The University of the South left the SEC on December 13,1940 and it is currently a member of the Division III Southern Athletic Association. Georgia Institute of Technology left the SEC in 1964, in 1975, it became a founding member of the Metro Conference, one of the predecessors to todays Conference USA. Georgia Tech competed in the Metro Conference in all sports except football, in 1978, Georgia Tech joined another Southern Conference offshoot, the Atlantic Coast Conference, for all sports, where it has remained ever since. Tulane University left the SEC in 1966, along with Georgia Tech, it was a charter member of the Metro Conference. Unlike Tech, however, Tulane remained in the Metro Conference until it merged with the Great Midwest Conference in 1995 to form Conference USA, Tulane remained an independent in football until C-USA began football competition in 1996. Tulane left C-USA in 2014 for the American Athletic Conference, in 1990, the SEC expanded from ten to twelve member universities with the addition of the Arkansas Razorbacks and the South Carolina Gamecocks. The two new members began SEC competition with the 1991–1992 basketball season, at the same time, the SEC organized competition for some sports into two divisions. Initially, the format was used in football, baseball. The divisional format was dropped for mens basketball following the 2011–2012 season, the 1992 and 1993 championship games were held at Legion Field in Birmingham, and all championship games from 1994 onward have been held at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta. On November 6,2011 the SEC commissioner announced that the University of Missouri would also join the SEC on July 1,2012, for football, Texas A&M was scheduled to compete in the Western Division, and Missouri in the Eastern Division. Texas A&M and Missouri both left the Big 12 Conference, the office of Commissioner was created in 1940. Under the leadership of Michael F, the SECU rebranded its mission to better serve as a means through which the collaborative academic endeavors and achievements of Southeastern Conference universities would be promoted and advanced
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Mid-American Conference
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Nine of the twelve full member schools are in Ohio and Michigan, with single members located in Illinois, Indiana, and New York. For football, the MAC participates in the NCAAs Football Bowl Subdivision, the MAC is headquartered in the Public Square district in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, and has two members in the nearby Akron area. The MAC has been referred to as the Conference of Quarterbacks because of the accomplishments of former players in the National Football League. The conference also ranks highest among all eleven NCAA Division I FBS conferences for graduation rates, Wayne University left after the first year. Miami University and Western Michigan University took the place of those charter members for the 1948 season, the MAC added the University of Toledo, Kent State University, and Bowling Green State University. The University of Cincinnati resigned its membership February 18,1953, the membership was steady for the next two decades except for the addition of Marshall University in 1954 and the departure of Western Reserve in 1955. Marshall was expelled from the conference in 1969 due to NCAA violations, NIU left after the 1985–86 season. The University of Akron joined the conference in 1992, the conference became the largest in Division I-A with the re-admittance of Marshall and NIU and addition of the State University of New York at Buffalos Bulls in 1997 and 1998, respectively. The University of Central Florida joined for football only in 2002, Marshall and Central Florida would leave after the 2004–05 academic year, both joining Conference USA in all sports. In May 2005, the Temple Owls in Philadelphia signed a contract with the MAC as a football-only school. The Missouri State Bears, Evansville Purple Aces, and Southern Illinois Salukis participate in the MAC for mens swimming and diving, in 2012, the West Virginia Mountaineers joined the Florida Atlantic Owls and Hartwick College Hawks as mens soccer affiliates. Missouri, Northern Iowa, and Old Dominion are wrestling affiliates, the Missouri State Bears are also an affiliate for field hockey. The UMass Minutemen joined the MAC as a member in July 2012. Meanwhile, Temple ended its affiliation with the MAC in football, the Chicago State Cougars were an affiliate for mens tennis until joining the Western Athletic Conference, which sponsors that sport, in July 2013. There are twelve schools with membership, Ten schools have MAC affiliate membership status. On July 1,2012, Temple joined the Big East Conference for football only, on September 19,2012, the MAC announced Missouri, Northern Iowa and Old Dominion would join as wrestling affiliates, as the Southeastern and Missouri Valley Conferences do not sponsor wrestling. Missouri and Northern Iowa participated only in the tournament in the 2012–13 school year. Old Dominion did not begin MAC competition until 2013–14, when it left the Colonial Athletic Association for Conference USA, the 2014–15 school year saw one affiliate member leave for another conference and two new affiliates join
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Conference USA
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Conference USA is a collegiate athletic conference whose member institutions are located within the Southern United States. The conference participates in the NCAAs Division I in all sports, C-USAs offices are located in the Las Colinas business district of the Dallas suburb of Irving, Texas. C-USA was founded in 1995 by the merger of the Metro Conference and Great Midwest Conference, two Division I conferences that did not sponsor football. To even out at 12 members the conference invited the University of Houston, the conference immediately started competition in all sports except for football, which did not launch until 1996. To even out at 12 members the conference invited the University of Houston, the conference immediately started competition in all sports, except football which started in 1996. The conference saw radical changes for the 2005–06 academic year, the stage for these changes was set in 2003, when the Atlantic Coast Conference successfully lured Miami and Virginia Tech to make a move from the Big East Conference in 2004. Boston College would later make the move, joining the ACC in 2005. In response to that series of moves, which depleted the Big East football conference, five C-USA members departed for the Big East, including three football-playing schools and two non-football schools. Another two schools left for the Atlantic 10, TCU joined the Mountain West, and a member, Army. With the loss of these teams, C-USA lured six teams from other conferences, UCF and Marshall from the MAC, as well as Rice, SMU, Tulsa, and later UTEP from the WAC. Note that UCF played in the MAC for football only, for all other sports, with C-USAs membership now consisting of 12 schools, all of which sponsor football, the conference has adopted a two-division alignment. In 2013, C-USA entered its next phase with the departure of four schools for the American Athletic Conference and this was again the result of Big East schools leaving for the ACC, this time being Syracuse and Pittsburgh. It was announced in early 2012 that Conference USA was in talks with the Mountain West Conference about forming either a football alliance or conference merger in the future, as a result, both C-USA and the MW backed away from a full merger. As of April 2012, the likeliest scenario was an alliance in which both conferences retain separate identities. However, after the MW added more members, the alliance was apparently abandoned. For mens soccer, there was a chance that the MW, SEC, and C-USA along with the one Sun Belt member, however, the only MW member school that ultimately moved to C-USA mens soccer was New Mexico. For the 2013–14 season C-USA invited five new members to join their conference, UTSA and Louisiana Tech joined from the WAC and North Texas and FIU, from the Sun Belt Conference. Old Dominion, which already housed five of its sports in C-USA, moved the rest of its program from the CAA
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Howell Peacock
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Howell Peacock was an American basketball coach, best known for being the head coach of mens college basketball at the University of Georgia and at the University of North Carolina. Peacock played for the Georgia mens basketball team and was captain for the 1909–10. After playing on the team, Peacock became the coach for Georgia in 1912. Peacock amassed a 30–7 record while coaching for the University of Georgia, after leaving the University of Georgia, Peacock became head coach at North Carolina while being simultaneously enrolled as a medical student there. Peacock took over after the departure of Charles Doak as head coach, when Doak left, many of his players also graduated, leaving Peacock to build the team mostly from scratch. In order to field a team, Peacock recruited players from all over campus by posting signs up, asking men to come. Ten individuals showed up for try-outs and three made it onto the team, the 1916–17 team barely managed to earn a winning record, but did manage to beat Virginia, which was considered a moral victory. The 1916–17 team also included a future Governor of North Carolina Luther H. Hodges, the 1917–18 team managed to win all of its home games and became one of the best teams in the South. Peacocks third and final season with the Tar Heels was largely a disappointment, however, tales from the Tar Heel Locker Room. 2008-09 North Carolina mens basketball media guide, Georgia media guide 2008-09 Georgia mens basketball media guide. Orange County, NC - Old Chapel Hill Cemetery, Part 2
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Rex Enright
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Rex Edward Enright was an American football and basketball player, coach, and college athletics administrator. He played college football and college basketball at the University of Notre Dame in the 1920s, after graduating from Notre Dame in 1926, he played professional football in the National Football League with the Green Bay Packers for two seasons. Enright served as the football coach at the University of South Carolina from 1938 to 1942 and again from 1946 to 1956. He was also the basketball coach at the University of Georgia from 1931 to 1938 and at South Carolina for one season in 1942–43. Enright was the son of James E. Enright and May C and he was born in Rockford, Illinois. He graduated from Central High School in Rockford, where he played on the 1918 state champion basketball team and he then graduated from the University of Notre Dame where he played running back for Knute Rockne on the football team, and also played on the Irish basketball team. They had daughters Eugenia M. Alice E. and Joyce, Enright played fullback for the Green Bay Packers in 1926 and 1927. In the early 1930s Enright was an assistant football coach at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, from 1931 to 1938, he was the head basketball coach at the University of Georgia and assistant football coach. In 1938, he was hired as football coach and athletic director at the University of South Carolina. After the 1942 season, he joined the United States Navy serving as a lieutenant and he returned to the Gamecocks in 1946 as head football coach succeeding John D. McMillan, and remained until 1955 when he resigned for health reasons. He hired Warren Giese as his successor, and continued as director until 1960. The Rex Enright Athletic Center on the South Carolina campus was named for him and he was considered one of the ring leaders in the formation of the Atlantic Coast Conference in 1953. He is a member of the South Carolina Athletic Hall of Fame and he died in 1960 of peptic ulcers and a rheumatic heart. In 2009, the University of South Carolina recognized Enright as the winningest football coach in school history, however, that record lasted only two more years when Steve Spurrier passed him in 2011. List of college football coaches with non-consecutive tenure Rex Enright at the College Football Data Warehouse Rex Enright at Pro-Football-Reference. com
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Vernon Smith (American football)
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Vernon Catfish Smith was an American football, basketball, and baseball player, coach, and military officer. A three-sport athlete at the University of Georgia, Smith was named to the 1931 College Football All-America Team as an end, after his playing days, he served as the co-head basketball coach at his alma mater during the 1937–38 season. Smith was also the baseball coach at Georgia from 1934 to 1937 and at the University of South Carolina from 1938 to 1939. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a player in 1979 and his nickname of Catfish is attributed to a story in which he bit the head off of one as a 25-cent bet while a student at Lanier High School in Macon. He and a friend were fishing in Walnut Creek, Smith played football at the University of Georgia from 1929 to 1931 and was named an All-American in 1931. The game was the first-ever played at Sanford Stadium, Smith wore number 9, and stood 62 and 190 pounds. He made an all-time Georgia Bulldogs football team picked in 1935 and he was nominated though not selected for an Associated Press All-Time Southeast 1920-1969 era team. Smith was a member of the Sigma Chi Fraternity and he was also the head baseball coach at the University of Georgia and the University of South Carolina. He then joined the United States Army Air Forces, retiring in 1963 with the rank of colonel, smiths sports honors include induction into the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame in 1966 and in the College Football Hall of Fame in 1979. His military honors included the Legion of Merit, Air Force Commendation Medal, World War II Victory Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Air Force Reserve Medal and Air Force Longevity Medal. Charles E. Martin, Ive Seen Em All, Half Century of Georgia Football, p.57, The McGregor Company, Athens, vernon Smith at the College Football Hall of Fame
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Elmer A. Lampe
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Elmer Andrew Lampe was an American football player and coach of football and basketball. He served as the football coach at Carleton College from 1932 to 1933 and at Carroll College—now Carroll University—in Waukesha. Lampe was also the basketball coach at the University of Georgia from 1938 to 1946 and at Dartmouth College from 1946 to 1950. Lampe went to college at the University of Chicago, where he was an All-American end and he graduated in 1926 with a Ph. B. Lampe began coaching football in 1931, serving as ends coach for Glenn Thistlethwaite at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. In 1932 and 1933, he was football coach at Carleton College. Lampe became the 18th head football coach for the Carroll College in 1934 and his career coaching record at Carroll was 17–7–4. Lampe became head coach at the University of Georgia in 1938, serving until 1946. He coached Dartmouth Colleges basketball team from 1946 to 1950, tallying a 44–55 mark, elmer A. Lampe, How to Play Defensive End. Athletic Journal, v.9, p.51, elmer A. Lampe, Statistics as an Aid to Football Strategy, Scholastic Coach,21,14, April 1952
