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1995 Nevada Wolf Pack Football Team
The 1995 Nevada Wolf Pack football team represented the University of Nevada, Reno during the 1995 NCAA Division I-A football season. Nevada competed as a member of the Big West Conference (BWC). The Wolf Pack were led by Chris Ault in his 19th overall and 2nd straight season since taking over as head coach for the second time in 1994 and later resigned from coaching at the end of the season to retain his job as athletic director. They played their home games at Mackay Stadium. Schedule Roster References {{Big West Conference football champions Nevada Nevada ( ; ) is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States, Western region of the United States. It is bordered by Oregon to the northwest, Idaho to the northeast, California to the west, Arizona to the southeast, and Utah to the east. N ... Nevada Wolf Pack football seasons Big West Conference football champion seasons Nevada Wolf Pack football ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big West Conference
The Big West Conference (BWC) is an American collegiate athletic conference whose member institutions participate in the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division I. The conference was originally formed on July 1, 1969, as the Pacific Coast Athletic Association (PCAA), and in 1988 was renamed the Big West Conference. The conference stopped sponsoring college football after the 2000 season. Among the conference's 11 member institutions, 10 are located in California (with 9 located in Southern California alone) and one is located in Hawaii. All of the schools are public universities, with the California schools evenly split between the California State University and the University of California systems. In addition, one affiliate member plays two sports in the BWC not sponsored by its home conference. History Pacific Coast Athletic Association The Big West Conference was formed in June 1968 as the Pacific Coast Athletic Association. The five original charter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1995 North Texas Mean Green Football Team
The 1995 North Texas Mean Green football team represented the University of North Texas in the 1995 NCAA Division I-A football season. The Mean Green played their home games at the Fouts Field in Denton, Texas, and competed as an Independent. They were led by second-year head coach Matt Simon. The team finished the regular season with a 2–9 record. Return to Division I-A The 1995 season marked the return of Division I-A football to Denton for the first time since 1982. North Texas had competed in the Southland Conference in Division I-AA from 1983-1994 after the university's athletic department fell on hard financial times following the departure of head coach and athletic director Hayden Fry to Iowa. The 1995 team was considered a transitional Division I-A member and was thus not eligible for a bowl game, regardless if they met the required six wins or not. Expanded Fouts Field As part of a coordinated effort by the athletic department and donors to bring attendance levels up ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stockton, California
Stockton is a city in and the county seat of San Joaquin County in the Central Valley of the U.S. state of California. Stockton was founded by Carlos Maria Weber in 1849 after he acquired Rancho Campo de los Franceses. The city is named after Robert F. Stockton, and it was the first community in California to have a name not of Spanish or Native American origin. The city is located on the San Joaquin River in the northern San Joaquin Valley. Stockton is the 11th largest city in California and the 58th largest city in the United States. It was named an All-America City in 1999, 2004, and 2015 and again in 2017. Built during the California Gold Rush, Stockton's seaport serves as a gateway to the Central Valley and beyond. It provided easy access for trade and transportation to the southern gold mines. The University of the Pacific (UOP), chartered in 1851, is the oldest university in California, and has been located in Stockton since 1923. In 2012, Stockton filed for what wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stagg Memorial Stadium
Amos Alonzo Stagg Memorial Stadium, previously known as Pacific Memorial Stadium, was a 28,000-seat outdoor multi-purpose stadium in the western United States, located on the campus of the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California. The home venue of the Pacific Tigers was constructed in 1950 for football and later hosted women's soccer; it was closed in 2012 and demolished two years later. Construction Pacific Memorial Stadium was built in 1950 after the successful fund drive which netted $165,000. Most of this money was through the sale of pre-ordered tickets (scrip), which were usable over a 10-year period. Construction began on the earth-filled structure in May 1950. Astonishingly, it was finished on time for the home opener (fifth game of the season) on October 21, a build time of less than six months. The field's approximate alignment was north-northwest to south-southeast. It has been reported and researched the stadium was built on a former Yokuts villag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1995 Pacific Tigers Football Team ...
The 1995 Pacific Tigers football team represented the University of the Pacific as a member of Big West Conference during the 1995 NCAA Division I-A football season. Led by fourth-year head coach Chuck Shelton, Pacific compiled an overall record 3–8 with a conference mark of 2–4, tying for eighth place in the Big West. The Tigers offense scored 240 points while the defense allowed 439 points. On December 20, 1995, the school announced it was dropping its football program, citing financial concerns. Schedule References {{Pacific Tigers football navbox Pacific Pacific Tigers football seasons Pacific Tigers football The Pacific Tigers football team represented the University of the Pacific in NCAA Division I-A (now FBS) college football. The team competed in the Big West Conference during their last season in 1995. They played their home games at Stagg Memor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Logan, Utah
Logan is a city in Cache County, Utah, United States. The 2020 census recorded the population was 52,778. Logan is the county seat of Cache County and the principal city of the Logan metropolitan area, which includes Cache County and Franklin County, Idaho. The Logan metropolitan area contained 125,442 people as of the 2010 census and was declared by Morgan Quitno in 2005 and 2007 to be the safest in the United States in those years. Logan also is the location of the main campus of Utah State University. History The town of Logan was founded in 1859 by settlers sent by Brigham Young to survey for the site of a fort near the banks of the Logan River. They named their new community "Logan" for Ephraim Logan, an early fur trapper in the area. Logan was incorporated on January 17, 1866. Brigham Young College was founded here on August 6, 1877 (and closed in 1926), and Utah State University – then called the Agricultural College of Utah – was founded in 1888. Logan's grow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maverik Stadium
Maverik Stadium, also known as Merlin Olsen Field at Maverik Stadium, is an outdoor college football stadium in the western United States, on the campus of Utah State University in Logan, Utah. The home field of the Utah State Aggies of the Mountain West Conference, it opened in 1968 as " and currently has a seating capacity Its field has a traditional north-south alignment, and sits at an elevation of above sea level. The playing surface was natural grass through 2003, and is currently AstroTurf GameDay Grass. Previously named for Dick Romney, USU's all-time most successful football coach and former athletics director, Romney Stadium was officially dedicated on in the stadium came a season earlier in 1968, when USU defeated New Mexico State History Prior to the construction of the first Romney Stadium, intercollegiate and intramural competition took place on a makeshift field east of Old Main. This area, which would eventually become the Quad, served the needs of the co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1995 Utah State Aggies Football Team
The 1995 Utah State Aggies football team represented Utah State University in the 1995 NCAA Division I-A football season. The Aggies were led by first-year head coach John L. Smith, who replaced Charlie Weatherbie after he left to coach Navy. The Aggies played their home games at Romney Stadium in Logan, Utah. Despite a difficult 0–5 start to the season, the Aggies won four of the next six and finished third in the Big West Conference. Previous season Utah State finished the 1994 season with a record of 3-8, a disappointing year after having won a share of the Big West Conference championship and the Las Vegas Bowl in 1993. Head Coach Charlie Weatherbie abruptly left the Aggies on December 31, 1994 to coach at the US Naval Academy. John L. Smith was subsequently hired away from the University of Idaho on January 3, 1995. Smith would fill his coaching staff primarily with coaches he had known at Idaho, including coordinators Bobby Petrino and Chris Smeland. Schedule Seaso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fremont Cannon
The Fremont Cannon is the trophy awarded to the winner of the Battle for Nevada (also known as the Nevada–UNLV football rivalry), an American college football rivalry game played annually by the Nevada Wolf Pack football team of the University of Nevada, Reno (Nevada) and the UNLV Rebels football team of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). The trophy was built in 1970 and is a replica of a 19th-century Howitzer cannon that accompanied American explorer and politician John C. Frémont on an expedition to the American West and Nevada in the mid 19th century. The original cannon had been abandoned, due to heavy snows, in the Sierra Nevada in 1843. The replica cannon was originally fired following a touchdown by the team in possession of the cannon, but it has been inoperable since 1999. The wooden carriage is painted the school color of the team in possession, navy blue for Nevada or scarlet for UNLV. The trophy is the heaviest and most expensive in college football. Since 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1995 UNLV Rebels Football Team ...
The 1995 UNLV Rebels football team was an American football team that represented the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in the Big West Conference during the 1995 NCAA Division I-A football season. In their second year under head coach Jeff Horton, the team compiled a 2–9 record. Schedule References {{UNLV Rebels football navbox UNLV UNLV Rebels football seasons UNLV Rebels football The UNLV Rebels football program is a college football team that represents the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). The team is a member of the Mountain West Conference, which is a Division I Bowl Subdivision (formerly Division I-A) conferenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newspapers
A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background. Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, sports and art, and often include materials such as opinion columns, weather forecasts, reviews of local services, obituaries, birth notices, crosswords, editorial cartoons, comic strips, and advice columns. Most newspapers are businesses, and they pay their expenses with a mixture of subscription revenue, newsstand sales, and advertising revenue. The journalism organizations that publish newspapers are themselves often metonymically called newspapers. Newspapers have traditionally been published in print (usually on cheap, low-grade paper called newsprint). However, today most newspapers are also published on websites as online newspapers, and some have even abandoned their print versions entirely. Newspapers developed in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruston, Louisiana
Ruston is a small city and the parish seat of Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, United States. It is the largest city in the Eastern Ark-La-Tex region. As of the 2010 United States Census, the population was 21,859, reflecting an increase of 6.4 percent from the count of 20,546 counted in the 2000 Census. Ruston is near the eastern border of the Ark-La-Tex region and is the home of Louisiana Tech University. Its economy is therefore based on its college population. Ruston hosts the annual Peach Festival. Ruston is the principal city of the Ruston Micropolitan Statistical Area, which includes all of Lincoln Parish. History During the Reconstruction Era following the Civil War, word soon reached the young parish near what is now Ruston, that the Vicksburg, Shreveport, and Pacific Railroad would begin to run across north Louisiana, linking the Deep South with the West (the current operator is Kansas City Southern Railway). Robert Edwin Russ, the Lincoln Parish sheriff from 1877–1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
