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1884 Yale Bulldogs Football Team
The 1884 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1884 college football season. The team compiled an 8–0–1 record, shut out eight of nine opponents, and outscored all opponents, 495 to 10. The team was retroactively named as the national champion by the Helms Athletic Foundation and National Championship Foundation and as a co-national champion by Parke H. Davis. Schedule Roster * Rushers: F. W. Wallace, Samuel Reading Bertron, H. R. Flanders, F. G. Peters, A. B. Coxe, R. Ronalds, W. N. Goodwin, Sheffield, L. F. Robinson, R. S. Storrs * Quarterback: T. L. Bayne * Halfbacks: Eugene Lamb Richards, Wyllys Terry * Back: M. H. Marlin References {{College Football National Champion pre-AP Poll navbox Yale Yale Bulldogs football seasons College football national champions College football undefeated seasons Yale Bulldogs football The Yale Bulldogs football program represents Yale University in college football at the NCAA Division I Football ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugene Lamb Richards
Eugene Lamb Richards Jr. (June 14, 1863 – September 17, 1927) was an American football player, lawyer, and politician. Early life Richards was born on June 14, 1863, in New Haven, Connecticut. He was the son of Julia L. (née Bacon) Richards and Eugene Lamb Richards Sr., a Yale professor. While at Yale, he was a halfback on the undefeated 1881, 1882, 1883, and 1884 Yale Bulldogs football teams that have been recognized for winning four consecutive national championships. He was the captain of the 1884 team. He set a Yale record in May 1883 by kicking a football 168 feet. Career Richards later became a lawyer who was actively involved in Tammany Hall Tammany Hall, also known as the Society of St. Tammany, the Sons of St. Tammany, or the Columbian Order, was a New York City political organization founded in 1786 and incorporated on May 12, 1789 as the Tammany Society. It became the main loc ... politics. He held state offices in New York, including Deputy Attorney Genera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hartford Courant
The ''Hartford Courant'' is the largest daily newspaper in the U.S. state of Connecticut, and is considered to be the oldest continuously published newspaper in the United States. A morning newspaper serving most of the state north of New Haven and east of Waterbury, its headquarters on Broad Street in Hartford, Connecticut is a short walk from the state capitol. It reports regional news with a chain of bureaus in smaller cities and a series of local editions. It also operates ''CTNow'', a free local weekly newspaper and website. The ''Courant'' began as a weekly called the ''Connecticut Courant'' on October 29, 1764, becoming daily in 1837. In 1979, it was bought by the Times Mirror Company. In 2000, Times Mirror was acquired by the Tribune Company, which later combined the paper's management and facilities with those of a Tribune-owned Hartford television station. The ''Courant'' and other Tribune print properties were spun off to a new corporate parent, Tribune Publishin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
College Football National Champions
A national championship in the highest level of college football in the United States, currently the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), is a designation awarded annually by various organizations to their selection of the best college football team. Division I FBS football is the only National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) sport for which the NCAA does not sanction a yearly championship event. As such, it is sometimes unofficially referred to as a " mythical national championship". Due to the lack of an official NCAA title, determining the nation's top college football team has often engendered controversy. A championship team is independently declared by multiple individuals and organizations, often referred to as "selectors". These choices are not always unanimous. In 1969 even President of the United States Richard Nixon made a selection by announcing, ahead of the season-ending "game of the century" between No. 1 Texas and No. 2 Arkansas, that the winn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yale Bulldogs Football Seasons
This is a list of seasons completed by the Yale Bulldogs football team of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS). Since the team's inaugural 1872 season, Yale has participated in more than 1,300 officially sanctioned games, holding an all-time record of 917–380–55. The Bulldogs originally competed as a football independent before joining the Ivy League as a founding member in 1956. Seasons See also * List of Ivy League football standings References {{Ivy League football team seasons Yale Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wyllys Terry
Wyllys Terry (c. 1864 – April 21, 1949) was an American football player and businessman. He holds the record for the longest run from scrimmage in college football history. Athletic career Terry was a back on the undefeated 1882, 1883, and 1884 Yale Bulldogs football teams that compiled a three-year record of 24–1–2 and have been recognized as national champions all three years. On November 5, 1884, in a 46–0 victory over Wesleyan, he set a college football record with the longest run from scrimmage in American football history. ''Life'' magazine in 1946 wrote of the run: The longest run of all time was a 115-yard zigzag streak by Wyllys Terry, halfback on the 1884 Yale team, in one of three games played against Wesleyan that year. A run of that length was made possible by the 110-yard field, the run starting five yards behind the goal line." The ''Guinness Book of Superlatives'' and other sources also register the length of Terry's record run at 115 yards. Other sources d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Reading Bertron
Samuel Reading Bertron Jr. (February 26, 1865 – June 30, 1938) was an American banker. Biography Bertron was born on February 26, 1865, in Port Gibson, Mississippi. His father was Philadelphia-born and Princeton University-educated Presbyterian minister, Samuel Reading Bertron Sr. (1806–1878), and his mother was German immigrant, Ottilie Mueler (1830–1903). Rev. S.R. Berton moved to Port Gibson, Mississippi, in 1835, where he preached in a variety of churches and institutions. The senior Bertron had three wives and five children. Rev. Bertron's wives were Caroline Christie (March 25, 1818 – April 13, 1839]), Catherine McRae Crane, widow of Alfred Thomas Barnes (died 1849), and Ottilie Mueler. The first two wives died in childbirth. Bertron Jr. had three sisters and a brother. Rev. Bertron's five children from the three wives were: Mary, Clara, Annie, Francis, and Samuel Jr. The last was the only child of Rev. Bertron and his third wife, whom he married in 1857. Rev. Ber ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Princeton–Yale Football Rivalry
The Princeton–Yale football rivalry is an American college football rivalry between the Princeton Tigers of Princeton University and the Yale Bulldogs of Yale University. The football rivalry is among the oldest in American sports. Significance The rivalry is one of the oldest continuous rivalries in American sports, the oldest continuing rivalry in the history of American football, and is constituent to the Big Three academic, athletic and social rivalry among alumni and students associated with Harvard, Yale and Princeton universities. The Kentucky Derby and Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show example American sporting events that are older or have been engaged continuously longer than this contest. Princeton claims 28 collegiate football national championships. Yale claims 27 collegiate national football championship. And the rivalry has been played seriously beyond the gridiron, sometimes for future undergraduate matriculants. Princeton's Undergraduate Dean of Admiss ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manhattan
Manhattan (), known regionally as the City, is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City. The borough is also coextensive with New York County, one of the original counties of the U.S. state of New York. Located near the southern tip of New York State, Manhattan is based in the Eastern Time Zone and constitutes both the geographical and demographic center of the Northeast megalopolis and the urban core of the New York metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the world by urban landmass. Over 58 million people live within 250 miles of Manhattan, which serves as New York City’s economic and administrative center, cultural identifier, and the city’s historical birthplace. Manhattan has been described as the cultural, financial, media, and entertainment capital of the world, is considered a safe haven for global real estate investors, and hosts the United Nations headquarters. New York City is the headquarters of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polo Grounds
The Polo Grounds was the name of three stadiums in Upper Manhattan, New York City, used mainly for professional baseball and American football from 1880 through 1963. The original Polo Grounds, opened in 1876 and demolished in 1889, was built for the sport of polo. Bound on the south and north by 110th Street, 110th and 112th Street, 112th streets and on the east and west by Fifth Avenue, Fifth and Sixth Avenue (Manhattan), Sixth (Lenox) avenues, just north of Central Park, it was converted to a baseball stadium when leased by the New York Metropolitans in 1880. The third Polo Grounds, built in 1890, was renovated after a fire in 1911 New York Giants season, 1911 and became Polo Grounds IV, the one generally indicated when the ''Polo Grounds'' is referenced. It was located in Coogan's Bluff, Coogan's Hollow and was noted for its distinctive bathtub shape, with very short distances to the left and right field walls and an unusually deep center field. In baseball, the origin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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The 1884 Princeton Tigers football team represented the College of New Jersey, then more commonly known as Princeton College, in the 1884 college football season. The Tigers finished with a 9–0–1 record and were retroactively named national champions by the Billingsley Report and co-champions by Parke H. Davis. This season marked Princeton's 12th football national championship. Clinton N. Bird was the team captain. Schedule References {{College Football National Champion pre-AP Poll navbox Princeton Princeton Tigers football seasons College football national champions College football undefeated seasons Princeton Tigers football The Princeton Tigers football program represents Princeton University and competes at the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) level as a member of the Ivy League. Princeton's footbal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harvard–Yale Football Rivalry
The Harvard–Yale football rivalry is renewed annually with The Game, an American college football match between the Harvard Crimson football team of Harvard University and the Yale Bulldogs football team of Yale University. Though the winner does not take possession of a physical prize, the matchup is usually considered the most important and anticipated game of the year for both teams, regardless of their season records. The Game is scheduled annually as the last contest of the year for both teams; as the Ivy League does not participate in postseason play for football, The Game is the final outing for each team's graduating seniors. Some years, the rivalry carries the additional significance of deciding the Ivy League championship. The weekend of The Game includes more than just the varsity matchup; the respective Yale residential college football teams compete against "sister" Harvard house teams the day before. The Game is third among most-played NCAA Division I football ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1884 Harvard Crimson Football Team
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The 1884 Harvard Crimson football team represented Harvard University in the 1884 college football season. They finished with a 7–4 record. On November 15, Harvard lost to Princeton by a 36–6 score before 3,000 spectators at Jarvis Field in Cambridge. On November 22, Harvard lost to Yale by a 51–0 score before 2,400 spectators at the new athletic grounds in New Haven. The game was played in two halves of 45 minutes with a 15-minute intermission. Schedule References Harvard Harvard Crimson football seasons Harvard Crimson football The Harvard Crimson football program represents Harvard University in college football at the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (formerly Division I-AA). Harvard's football program is one of the oldest in the world, having begun c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
