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UNLV Rebels football
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The UNLV Rebels football program is a college football team that represents the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. The team is currently a member of the Mountain West Conference, the program which began on September 14,1968, is coached by former Bishop Gorman High School head coach, Tony Sanchez. The teams home games are played at Sam Boyd Stadium in Whitney, the Rebels played their first game of their inaugural season against the St. Marys Gaels at Cashman Field in Las Vegas. The Rebels won the game, defeating the Gaels 27–20 in front of 8,000 fans, the Rebels remained undefeated until the last game of the season, losing to Cal Lutheran Kingsmen, 17–13, as the Rebels finished their inaugural campaign 8-1. The following year the Rebels played their first game against in-state rival Nevada, UNLV gained revenge, defeating Nevada the following year, 42–30, in the first year that the Fremont Cannon was awarded. On September 25,1971, the Rebels played their first game against a Division I school, on October 23,1971, the Rebels opened their new home, Las Vegas Stadium, against Weber State, losing 30–17. At the end of the 1972 season with a disappointing 1-10 record, Ireland announced he was stepping down, the Rebels embarked on their first post-season journey in a national quarterfinal against Alcorn State, defeating the Braves 35–22 in Las Vegas. The Rebels memorable season ended in the semifinals in the Grantland Rice Bowl. Meyer left the program in 1976 to take the coaching position at collegiate powerhouse. Former Boise State coach Tony Knap took over the Rebels in 1976, after ten years as a Division II independent, the program made the jump to the Division I level in 1978, independent of any conference affiliation. On September 9, the Rebels played their first game as a Division I school, the Rebels defeated their first major college opponent away from Las Vegas, with a 33–6 victory over Colorado State in Fort Collins. At the end of the season, the Rebels made a trip to Yokohama, even with the hard end to the season, the Rebels still produced a memorable year, going 7-4 in their first campaign at the Division I level. The Rebels first PCAA game was a 29–27 loss to Pacific on October 2 and it took the entire season before the Rebels won their first conference game, a 42–23 victory against Cal State Fullerton on November 27. Hyde stepped down after the 1985 season and a 5-5-1 record, the Rebels were forced to forfeit their entire 1984 season, including the California Bowl. 1994 was another season for the Rebels, as wide receiver Randy Gatewood set two single-game receiving records in a 48–38 loss to Idaho on September 17. The Rebels then stunned the heavily favored Nevada, 32–27 to win a share of the Big West Conference championship, the Rebels then defeated Central Michigan 52–24 in the Las Vegas Bowl on their home field. In 1996, the Rebels along with San Jose State left the Big West Conference and became a member of the heavily expanded Western Athletic Conference. The league announced that it would hold a game for the top team in each of the two divisions at the end of each season and that the game would be held at Sam Boyd Stadium in Las Vegas
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Sam Boyd Stadium
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Sam Boyd Stadium is a football stadium in Whitney, Nevada, United States, an unincorporated community in the Las Vegas Valley. It honors Sam Boyd, a figure in the hotel. The stadium consists of an uncovered horseshoe-shaped single-decked bowl, with temporary seating occasionally erected in the north end zone. The field has a conventional north-south orientation and is at an elevation of 1,600 feet above sea level, the stadium is the home of the UNLV Rebels football team from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and the annual Las Vegas Bowl in December. It is also used for high school championship games and at times regular-season high school games for Bishop Gorman High School. The final race of the Monster Energy Supercross series is located here every year, since 2010, it has hosted the USA Sevens leg of the annual World Rugby Sevens Series in the sevens version of rugby union. The stadium was completed 46 years ago on October 23,1971, originally known as Las Vegas Stadium, the name was changed to Las Vegas Silver Bowl in 1978, Sam Boyd Silver Bowl in 1984 and Sam Boyd Stadium in April 1993. The seating capacity was 15,000 from 1971 until 1977, raised to 32,000 in 1978, except from 1999 to 2002, the stadium has had an artificial turf surface. A $1.2 million renovation during the summer of 2015 replaced field turf that hadn’t been changed out in more than a decade and was worn from usage. Additionally, two rows totaling 860 seats were removed from the east and west sidelines to widen the field, with the Oakland Raiders move to Las Vegas a new stadium tentatively called Las Vegas Stadium will be built. The UNLV Rebels will join the Raiders at the new stadium in 2020, the exact future of the stadium remains up in the air, as UNLV officials are considering selling it or turning it into a Raiders practice facility. Since 1992, the stadium has been the site of the annual Las Vegas Bowl, in recent years, the game has been very well attended. In 2005, Brigham Young University made its first postseason appearance since 2001 and excited BYU fans over-filled the stadium, the following season, BYU returned to the Las Vegas Bowl as a nationally-ranked team. Additional seating was arranged at Sam Boyd Stadium for the 2006 game, in 2007, BYU made its third straight appearance and attendance was 40,712. BYU made its fourth straight appearance 2008, ranked #16 in the nation, Arizona won the contest, 31–21,40,047 attended the game which featured David Hasselhoff singing the national anthem. Sam Boyd Stadium was also the site of all three Western Athletic Conference title football games, following the 1976 season of the North American Soccer League, the San Diego Jaws decided to relocate and become the Las Vegas Quicksilvers. Despite a roster featuring international superstar Eusébio, the Quicksilvers could only manage an 11–15 record and they averaged an attendance of 7,092 per game. When the 1977 season ended, the franchise opted to back to San Diego after only one year
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AstroTurf
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AstroTurf is a brand of artificial turf playing surface. The original AstroTurf product was a synthetic turf. The prime reason to incorporate AstroTurf on game fields was to avoid the cost of laying natural turf, the name AstroTurf has evolved into a generic trademark and is sometimes used to refer to all brands of artificial turf. The original AstroTurf brand product was co-invented in 1965 by Donald L. Elbert, James M. Faria and it was patented in 1965 and originally sold under the name ChemGrass. It was re-branded as AstroTurf by an employee named John A. Wortmann after its first well-publicized use at the Houston Astrodome stadium in 1966. Early iterations of the short pile turf swept the major stadia, concerns over directionality and traction led Monsantos R&D department to implement a texturized nylon system. By imparting a crimped texture to the nylon after it was extruded, in 1987, Monsanto consolidated its AstroTurf management, marketing, and technical activities in Dalton, Georgia, as AstroTurf Industries, Inc. In 1988, Balsam AG purchased all the stock of AstroTurf Industries. In 1994, Southwest Recreational Industries, Inc. acquired the AstroTurf brand, in 1996, SRI was acquired by American Sports Products Group Inc. While AstroTurf was the leader throughout the late 20th century. FieldTurf, AstroTurfs chief competitor in the early 2000s and today and this third generation turf, as it became known, changed the landscape of the marketplace. Although SRI successfully marketed AstroPlay, a third generation turf product, increased competition, despite their legal victory, increased competition took its toll. Out of the proceedings, Textile Management Associates, Inc. of Dalton, Georgia, acquired the AstroTurf brand. TMA began marketing the AstroTurf brand under the company AstroTurf, LLC, in 2006, General Sports Venue became TMAs marketing partner for the AstroTurf brand for the American market. AstroTurf, LLC handled the marketing of AstroTurf in the rest of the world, in 2009, TMA acquired GSV in order to enter the marketplace as a direct seller. AstroTurf, LLC focused its efforts on research and development, which has promoted rapid growth, AstroTurf introduced new product features and installation methods, including AstroFlect and field prefabrication. AstroTurf also introduced a product called RootZone consisting of crimped fibers designed to encapsulate infill and this product has been adopted by many professional organizations and colleges in the United States. In 2016, SportGroup Holding announced that it would purchase AstroTurf,1964 The Moses Brown School in Providence, Rhode Island, installs ChemGrass
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Whitney, Nevada
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Whitney is an unincorporated town and census-designated place in Clark County, Nevada, United States. The population was 38,585 at the 2010 census, prior to the 1970s, Whitney was one of a few small communities between Las Vegas and Henderson along Boulder Highway. Whitney Elementary School was a converted Barracks and it housed grades from first to seventh until the 1960s, then the seventh graders were moved to Henderson Junior High. In the beginning years the town boasted a Post Office operated by John and Nellie Bunch, owners of much of the Whitney property, the town consisted of three streets running east and west, Whitney Avenue, Keenan Avenue, and Missouri Avenue. Cross streets running north and south were 1st Street, 2nd Street, and 3rd Street. Among recognized businesses were Harry Gunns Liquor Store, The Three Pigs Bar, Louises Bar, The Exotica Bar, the Wind N Sand Cafe, a gas station/market, a motel, older students attended Basic High School in Henderson. In the early 1990s, the growth of development in Las Vegas and Henderson. It wasnt until the early 2000s that business began to recover, the area has seen several new housing developments in vacant land. It is home to UNLVs Sam Boyd Stadium, which hosts the USA Sevens leg of the annual IRB Sevens World Series. This stadium was originally named The Silver Bowl, according to the United States Census Bureau, the census-designated place of Whitney has a total area of 6.8 square miles, all of it land. As an unincorporated town, Whitney is directly managed by the Clark County Commission, federally, it is split between the 1st and 3rd Congressional Districts. In state politics, it is part of State Senate District 7, represented by Democrat David Parks and Assembly District 18, as of the census of 2000, there were 18,273 people,7,090 households, and 4,502 families residing in the CDP. The population density was 2,438.9 people per square mile, there were 7,849 housing units at an average density of 1,047.6 per square mile. The racial makeup of the CDP was 72. 24% White,6. 82% African American,1. 11% Native American,3. 81% Asian,0. 45% Pacific Islander,11. 04% from other races, and 4. 53% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 25. 29% of the population,27. 8% of all households were made up of individuals and 6. 9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.57 and the family size was 3.14. In the CDP, the population was out with 25. 1% under the age of 18,9. 2% from 18 to 24,31. 3% from 25 to 44,23. 4% from 45 to 64. The median age was 35 years, for every 100 females there were 104.8 males
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NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision
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Division I is the highest level of intercollegiate athletics sanctioned by the National Collegiate Athletic Association in the United States. This level was called the University Division of the NCAA, in contrast to the lower level College Division. For football only, Division I was further subdivided in 1978 into Division I-A, Division I-AA, in 2006, Division I-A and I-AA were renamed Football Bowl Subdivision and Football Championship Subdivision, respectively. FCS teams are allowed to award scholarships, a practice technically allowed. FBS teams also have to meet attendance requirements, while FCS teams do not need to meet minimum attendance requirements. Another difference is post season play, starting with the 2014 postseason, a four-team playoff called the College Football Playoff, replaced the previous one game championship format. Even so, Division I FBS football is still the only NCAA sport in which a champion is not determined by an NCAA-sanctioned championship event. All D-I schools must field teams in at least seven sports for men and seven for women or six for men and eight for women, with at least two team sports for each gender. Division I schools must meet minimum financial aid awards for their athletics program, Several other NCAA sanctioned minimums and differences that distinguish Division I from Divisions II and III. Each playing season has to be represented by each gender as well, there are contest and participant minimums for each sport, as well as scheduling criteria. Mens and womens teams have to play all but two games against Division I teams, for men, they must play one-third of all their contests in the home arena. The NCAA has limits on the financial aid each Division I member may award in each sport that the school sponsors. Equivalency sports, in which the NCAA limits the total financial aid that a school can offer in a sport to the equivalent of a set number of full scholarships. Roster limitations may or may not apply, depending on the sport, the term counter is also key to this concept. The NCAA defines a counter as an individual who is receiving financial aid that is countable against the aid limitations in a sport. The number of scholarships that Division I members may award in sport is listed below. In this table, scholarship numbers for head-count sports are indicated without a point, for equivalency sports, they are listed with a decimal point. An exception exists for players at non-scholarship FCS programs who receive aid in another sport, participants in basketball are counted in that sport, unless they also play football
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