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Charles Thomas (American Football)
Charles Ladd Thomas (October 21, 1871 – September 19, 1920) was an American college football player and coach and newspaper reporter and editor. A native of Omaha, Nebraska, Thomas enrolled at the University of Michigan, where he played at the guard position for the Michigan Wolverines football teams of 1891 and 1892. After graduating from Michigan in 1893, Thomas returned to Nebraska, where he served as an assistant football coach at the University of Nebraska under Frank Crawford in 1893 and 1894. In 1895, he took over as Nebraska's head football coach, posting a 6–3 record. In 1897, Thomas was the head football coach at Nebraska Wesleyan University. From 1901 to 1902, he served as the head football coach at Arkansas, where he compiled a 9–8 record. Nebraska After Frank Crawford left Nebraska to go to the University of Texas in 1894, Thomas became the head coach for the 1895 season. He remained the coach for one year and had a 6–3 record while winning a share of the We ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Omaha, Nebraska
Omaha ( ) is the List of cities in Nebraska, most populous city in the U.S. state of Nebraska. It is located in the Midwestern United States along the Missouri River, about north of the mouth of the Platte River. The nation's List of United States cities by population, 41st-most-populous city, Omaha had a population of 486,051 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. The eight-county Omaha–Council Bluffs metropolitan area, which extends into Iowa, has approximately 1 million residents and is the Metropolitan statistical area#United States, 55th-largest metro area in the United States. Omaha is the county seat of Douglas County, Nebraska, Douglas County. Omaha's pioneer period began in 1854, when the city was founded by speculators from neighboring Council Bluffs, Iowa. The city was founded along the Missouri River, and a crossing called Lone Tree Ferry earned the city its nickname, the "Gateway to the West". Omaha introduced this new West to the world in 1898, when it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newspapers
A newspaper is a Periodical literature, periodical publication containing written News, 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, art, and science. They often include materials such as opinion columns, weather forecasts, reviews of local services, Obituary, 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 business model, subscription revenue, Newsagent's shop, newsstand sales, and advertising revenue. The journalism organizations that publish newspapers are themselves often Metonymy, metonymically called newspapers. Newspapers have traditionally been published Printing, in print (usually on cheap, low-grade paper called newsprint). However, today most newspapers are also Electronic publishing, published on webs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1902 College Football Season
The 1902 college football season had no clear-cut champion, with the ''Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book'' listing 1902 Michigan Wolverines football team, Michigan and Yale Bulldogs football, Yale as having been selected NCAA Division I FBS national football championship, national champions. Conference and program changes Conference changes *One conference began play in 1902: **Ohio Athletic Conference – now a Division III conference Membership changes Conference standings Major conference standings Independents Minor conferences Minor conference standings Awards and honors All-Americans The consensus College Football All-America Team, All-America team included: Statistical leaders *Team scoring most points: 1902 Michigan Wolverines football team, Michigan, 644 *Player scoring most points: Albert E. Herrnstein, Michigan, 130 *Rushing leader: Willie Heston, Michigan, 487 *Rushing avg leader: Willie Heston, 8.7 *Rushing touchdowns leader: Al Herrnstein ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1901 Arkansas Cardinals Football Team
The 1901 Arkansas Cardinals football team was an American football team that represented the University of Arkansas as an independent during the 1901 college football season. In its first season under head coach Charles Thomas, the team compiled a 3–5 record and outscored opponents by a total of 98 to 52. Schedule References Arkansas Arkansas ( ) is a landlocked state in the West South Central region of the Southern United States. It borders Missouri to the north, Tennessee and Mississippi to the east, Louisiana to the south, Texas to the southwest, and Oklahoma ... Arkansas Razorbacks football seasons Arkansas Cardinals football {{Arkansas-sport-team-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1901 College Football Season
The 1901 college football season had no clear-cut champion, with NCAA-designated "major selectors" retroactively selecting 1901 Michigan Wolverines football team, Michigan and 1901 Harvard Crimson football team, Harvard as NCAA Division I FBS national football championship, national champions. The NCAA records book also erroneously lists 1901 Yale Bulldogs football team, Yale as Parke H. Davis's selection. Harvard beat Yale 22–0 the last game of the year. Conference and program changes Rose Bowl The very first collegiate football bowl game was played following the 1901 season. Originally titled the 1902 Rose Bowl, "Tournament East-West football game" what is now known as the Rose Bowl Game was first played on January 1, 1902, in Pasadena, California. 1901 Michigan Wolverines football team, Michigan defeated Stanford football, Stanford 49–0. Conference standings Major conference standings Independents Minor conferences Awards and honors All-Americans The con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1897 College Football Season
The 1897 college football season had no clear-cut champion, with the ''Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book'' listing Pennsylvania and Yale as having been selected national champions National champions are corporations which are technically private businesses but due to governmental policy are ceded a dominant position in a national economy. In this system, these large organizations are expected not only to seek profit but als .... Conference and program changes Conference establishments *One conference played its final season in 1897: ** Western Interstate University Football Association – active since 1892 Membership changes Conference standings Major conference standings Independents Minor conferences Rankings See also * 1897 College Football All-America Team References {{Collegefootball-1897-season-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1895 College Football Season
The 1895 college football season was the season of American football played among colleges and universities in the United States during the 1895–96 academic year. The 1895 Penn Quakers football team, led by head coach George Washington Woodruff, compiled a perfect 14–0 record and is recognized as the 1895 national champion by the Billingsley Report, Helms Athletic Foundation, Houlgate System, and National Championship Foundation. One selector, Parke H. Davis, recognized both Penn and Yale as co-national champions. Yale compiled a 13–0–2 record. In the Midwest, Michigan led the way with an 8–1 record, the only loss coming in a road game against Harvard. In the South, the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association played its first year of college football with Vanderbilt winning the first conference championship. Ten of the eleven players selected by Walter Camp and Caspar Whitney to the 1895 All-America college football team came from Penn, Yale, Harvard, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1893 Baker Methodists Football Team
The 1893 Baker Methodists football team represented the Baker University as an independent during the 1893 college football season. Led by Charles Thomas in his first and only season as head coach, the Methodists compiled a record of 5–0–1. Baker was the "Champion Football Team of the Great West" Schedule Second team References Baker A baker is a tradesperson who baking, bakes and sometimes Sales, sells breads and other products made of flour by using an oven or other concentrated heat source. The place where a baker works is called a bakery. History Ancient histo ... Baker Wildcats football seasons College football undefeated seasons Baker Methodists football {{Collegefootball-1893-season-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1893 College Football Season
The 1893 college football season was the season of American football played among colleges and universities in the United States during the 1893–94 academic year. The 1893 Princeton Tigers football team, led by captain Thomas Trenchard, compiled a perfect 11–0 record, outscored opponents by a total of 270 to 14, and has been recognized as the College football national championships in NCAA Division I FBS, national champion by the Billingsley Report, Helms Athletic Foundation, Houlgate System, and National Championship Foundation. Despite 1893 Yale Bulldogs football team, Yale's loss to Princeton, one selector (Parke H. Davis) recognized the Bulldogs as the national champion. All eleven players selected by Caspar Whitney and Walter Camp to the 1893 College Football All-America Team, 1893 All-America college football team came from the Big Three (Princeton, Yale, and 1893 Harvard Crimson football team, Harvard). Seven of the honorees have been inducted into the College Footbal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Lincoln Star
The ''Lincoln Journal Star'' is an American daily newspaper that serves Lincoln, Nebraska, the state capital and home of the University of Nebraska. It is the most widely read newspaper in Lincoln and has the second-largest circulation in Nebraska (after the ''Omaha World-Herald''). The paper also operates a commercial printing unit. History The ''Lincoln Journal Star'' is the result of a 1995 merger between the city's two historic longtime daily newspapers. The ''Lincoln Star'', established in 1902 / 1905, was Lincoln's longtime morning newspaper while the ''Lincoln Journal'' was distributed in the afternoon / evenings. The ''Journal'' was itself the conglomeration over the decades of several previous Lincoln daily newspapers, dating back to 1867 and they beginnings of the change of Nebraska from the old Nebraska Territory (1854-1867) to the 37th state admitted to the federal Union on March 1, 1867, following its southern neighbor of the state of Kansas as the 35th in 186 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Omaha Daily Bee
The ''Omaha Daily Bee'', in Nebraska, United States, was a leading Republican newspaper that was active in the late 19th and early 20th century. The paper's editorial slant frequently pitted it against the ''Omaha Herald'', the '' Omaha Republican'' and other local papers. After a 1927 merger, it was published as the ''Bee-News'' until folding in 1937. History It was founded as a pioneer newspaper in Omaha, Nebraska, on May 8, 1871, by Edward Rosewater a Jewish immigrant from Bohemia who supported abolition and fought in the Union Army. The ''Bee'' was Nebraska's first regional newspaper,Larsen & Cotrell (1997) p 194. and was regarded nationally for its advocacy and success."Omaha monopoly" '' |
Butte, Montana
Butte ( ) is a consolidated city-county and the county seat of Silver Bow County, Montana, United States. In 1977, the city and county governments consolidated to form the sole entity of Butte-Silver Bow. The city covers , and, according to the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census, has a population of 34,494, making it Montana's List of municipalities in Montana, fifth-largest city. It is served by Bert Mooney Airport with airport code BTM. Established in 1864 as a mining camp in the northern Rocky Mountains on the Continental Divide of the Americas, Continental Divide, Butte experienced rapid development in the late 19th century, and was Montana's first major industrial city. In its heyday between the late 19th and early 20th centuries, it was one of the largest copper boomtown, boom towns in the American West. Employment opportunities in the mines attracted surges of Asian and European immigrants, particularly the Irish people, Irish; as of 2017, Butte has the largest populati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
