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Alan Pringle
Alan Keith Pringle (born January 20, 1952) is a Venezuelan-born former American football placekicker who played one game in the National Football League (NFL) for the Detroit Lions. Born in Venezuela, he played college football for the Rice Owls and was also a member of the Houston Oilers and New England Patriots. Early and personal life Pringle was born on January 20, 1952, in Los Taques, Venezuela, and spent his early years in Caracas. His parents were from England. He later moved to England, where he attended Rugby High School. He grew up playing soccer and rugby. Pringle is, along with fellow placekicker Pat Ragusa, one of only two Venezuelan-born National Football League (NFL) players. Pringle married Ann Dillard in 1974. College career Pringle later moved to the United States to attend Rice University. As a freshman at Rice in 1970, he was noticed by an assistant coach for the Rice Owls football team, who saw him kicking a soccer ball at a P.E. class. He was invited to t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Placekicker
In gridiron football, the placekicker (PK), or simply kicker (K), is the player responsible for attempts at scoring Field goal (football), field goals and extra points. In most cases, the placekicker also serves as the team's kickoff specialist. The term derives from the attempted scorer kicking the ball "from placement" of a teammate holding the ball rather than by individually drop-kicking the ball through the goal posts. Specialized role The kicker initially was not a specialized role. Before the 1934 standardization of the spheroid, prolate spheroid shape of the ball, drop kicking was the prevalent method of kicking field goals and conversions, but even after its replacement by place kicking, until the 1960s the kicker almost always doubled at another position on the roster. George Blanda, Lou Groza, Frank Gifford and Paul Hornung are prominent examples of players who were stars at other positions as well as being known for their kicking abilities. When the one-platoon syst ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Junior Varsity
A varsity team is the highest-level team in a sport or activity representing an educational institution. Varsity teams train to compete against each other during an athletic season or in periodic matches against rival institutions. At High school, high schools in the United States, a varsity team is one step above a school's junior varsity (JV) team, which is composed of less experienced players. The term originated in Britain in the 1840s and means University, ''university'', referring to the principal team that would represent the university in matches against another university. In contrast, student-run college teams within a university typically compete against each other in intramural events. Britain and Ireland In the Britain and Ireland, varsity teams compete in varsity matches against University and college rivalry, rival universities. The term dates from the 1840s, and originally referred to teams from the University of Oxford and University of Cambridge that competed in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wharton Junior College
Wharton County Junior College (WCJC) is a public community college with its main campus in Wharton, Texas. The college also has campuses in Richmond, Sugar Land, and Bay City. WCJC offers a range of postsecondary educational programs and services including associate degrees, certificates, and continuing-education courses. State Representative Phil Stephenson served on the Wharton County Junior College board of trustees from 1997 to 2012, when he was first elected to the legislature from District 85 in Fort Bend, Wharton, and Jackson counties. As defined by the Texas Legislature, the official service area of WCJC is the following: *all of Wharton County, *the territory within the Kendleton, Lamar, and Needville school districts, and the territory within the incorporated area and extraterritorial jurisdiction of Sugar Land, all in Fort Bend County, *the territory within the Wallis-Orchard Independent School District in Austin County, *the territory within the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Antonio Express
The ''San Antonio Express-News'' is a daily newspaper in San Antonio, Texas, founded in 1865. It is owned by the Hearst Corporation and has offices in San Antonio and Austin, Texas. The ''Express-News'' is the third largest newspaper in the state of Texas, with a daily circulation of nearly 100,000 copies in 2016. The newspaper's online presence can be found at Expressnews.com. Hearst also owns MYSanAntonio.com, which shares office space with the Express-News but maintains a separate newsroom and website. MYSanAntonio.com, or MySA, is editorially independent of ExpressNews.com. From 1881, the San Antonio Express-News' main competitor was the ''San Antonio Evening Light'', which became a Hearst publication in 1924 and was shut down, in 1993, when Hearst bought the ''Express-News''. History The paper was first published in 1865 as a weekly tabloid-style newspaper under the name ''San Antonio Express''. At that time, the city had already had a number of other newspapers in a num ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goal (sports)
In sport, a goal may refer to either an instance of scoring, or to the physical structure or area where an attacking team must send the ball or Hockey puck, puck in order to Score (sport), score points. The structure of a goal varies from sport to sport, and one is placed at or near each end of the playing field for each team to defend. Sports which feature goal scoring are also commonly known as invasion games. For many sports, each goal structure usually consists of two vertical posts, called ''goal posts'', supporting a horizontal ''crossbar''. A ''goal line'' marked on the playing surface between the goal posts demarcates the goal area. Thus, the objective is to send the ball or puck between the goal posts, under or over the crossbar (depending on the sport), and across the goal line. Other sports may have other types of structures or areas where the ball or puck must pass through, such as the basketball hoop. In several sports, sending the ball or puck into the opponent's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ball (gridiron Football)
In Northern America, a football (also called a pigskin) is a ball, roughly in the form of a lemon, used in the context of playing gridiron football. Footballs are often made of cowhide leather, as such a material is required in professional and collegiate football, although footballs used in recreation and organized youth leagues may be made of rubber, plastic or composite leather (high school football rule books still allow inexpensive all-rubber footballs, though they are less common than leather). History Early balls In the 1860s, manufactured inflatable balls were introduced through the innovations of English shoemaker Richard Lindon. These were much more regular in shape than the handmade balls of earlier times, making kicking and carrying easier. These early footballs were plum-shaped. Some teams used to have white footballs for purposes of night practice. The football changed in 1934, with a rule change that tapered the ball at the ends more and reduced the size ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Orange Leader (Texas) in 1999. ''The Orange Leader'' is a morning newspaper published Wednesdays and Saturdays in Orange, Texas, covering Orange County. It is owned by Boone Newspapers. History After buying two local weeklies in the region in 1980, Cox Enterprises bought the daily ''Leader'' in 1985 from owner/publisher James B. Quigley, who had led the paper since 1937. Harry G. Wood, the editor of the nearby Cox newspaper ''The Port Arthur News'', was installed as publisher at that time. In 1991, Cox sold the ''Leader'' and the Port Arthur newspaper to American Publishing Company, which in turn dealt them to Community Newspaper Holdings CNHI, LLC (formerly Community Newspaper Holdings, Inc.) is an American publisher of newspapers and advertising-related publications throughout the United States. The company was formed in 1997 by Ralph Martin, [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Freshman
A freshman, fresher, first year, or colloquially frosh, is a person in the first year at an educational institution, usually a secondary school or at the college and university level, but also in other forms of post-secondary educational institutions. Albania In Albania the freshman/woman is called "fruth", which literally means "measles". The etymology of it is "a person that has not yet passed the social measles", social measles referring to the transformation of social skills that usually takes place in the first year of university. Freshmen/women are regarded as socially inept. Arab world In much of the Arab world, a first-year is called a (; plural , ), which is Arabic for "beginner". Brazil In Brazil, students that pass the vestibulares and begin studying in a college or university are called "calouros" or more informally "bixos" ("bixetes" for girls), an alternate spelling of "bicho", which means "animal" (although commonly used to refer to bugs). Calouros are of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rice University
William Marsh Rice University, commonly referred to as Rice University, is a Private university, private research university in Houston, Houston, Texas, United States. Established in 1912, the university spans 300 acres. Rice University comprises eight undergraduate, graduate and professional schools, including Rice University School of Humanities, School of Humanities, Rice University School of Social Sciences, School of Social Sciences, Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, George R. Brown School of Engineering, Wiess School of Natural Sciences, Susanne M. Glasscock School of Continuing Studies, Rice University School of Architecture, Rice School of Architecture, and Shepherd School of Music. Established as William M. Rice Institute for the Advancement of Literature, Science and Art after the murder of its namesake William Marsh Rice, Rice has been a member of the Association of American Universities since 1985 and is Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corpus Christi Caller-Times
The ''Corpus Christi Caller-Times'' is the newspaper of record for Corpus Christi, Texas. History There has been a newspaper in Corpus Christi for almost as long as there has been a town. In 1883, the ''Caller'' was started in a frame building at 310 North Chaparral, now the site of Green's Jewelers. Roy Miller was editor of the ''Caller'' 1907–1911, when it was an enterprise of the King Ranch; he sold his interest in it in 1929. Later, there was a newspaper called the ''Times''. Both were located on North Chaparral in 1920. In the late 1920s, the two were combined to become the ''Caller-Times''. The present building was erected in 1935 at 820 North Lower Broadway and has subsequently been remodeled and enlarged several times. The most recent addition was completed in 1994 when a new Goss Metroliner offset press was installed in a $10 million expansion. Another milestone was reached in August 1995 – the Internet edition of ''Caller-Times'' was launched. The site was re- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pat Ragusa
Patrick Agatino Ragusa (born March 17, 1963) is a Venezuelan-born former professional American football placekicker who played for the New York Jets of the National Football League (NFL). Born to Italian immigrants in Caracas, Venezuela, he spent most of his childhood in Sicily, Italy, before moving to the United States. He played college football for the St. John's Redmen and played three games for the Jets as a replacement player in 1987. He was also a member of the semi-professional Brooklyn Mariners and Connecticut Giants and had a stint with the New York Knights of the Arena Football League (AFL). Early life Ragusa was born on March 17, 1963, in Caracas, Venezuela. He is one of only two Venezuelan-born National Football League (NFL) players, along with fellow placekicker Alan Pringle. Ragusa's parents were immigrants from Sicily, and when he was age two, his family moved back. He lived the next 10 years in the ''comune'' of Limina, with a population of 1,500. He played s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
