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Fred Folsom
Fred Gorham Folsom (November 9, 1873 – November 11, 1944) was an American football player, coach of football and baseball, lawyer, and law professor. He served as the head football coach at the University of Colorado Boulder (1895–1899, 1901–1902, 1908–1915) and at Dartmouth College from (1903–1906), compiling a career college football record of 106–28–6. Folsom played football at Dartmouth from 1892 to 1894. He was also the head baseball coach at Colorado in 1898 and 1899, tallying a mark of 6–6. Folsom practiced law in Denver and Boulder and taught at the University of Colorado Law School from 1905 to 1943. The football stadium at the University of Colorado, originally named Colorado Stadium, was renamed as Folsom Field in his honor in 1944. Early life and education Folsom was born to Franklin W. Folsom and Lillian A. Hopkins in Old Town, Maine on November 9, 1873. He graduated from Dartmouth in 1895 and earned an LLB from the University of Colorado in 18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Old Town, Maine
Old Town is a city in Penobscot County, Maine, United States. The population was 7,431 at the 2020 census. The city's developed area is chiefly located on the relatively large Marsh Island, but its boundaries extend beyond it. The island is surrounded and defined by the Penobscot River to the east and the Stillwater River to the west. History The Abenaki people called it ''Pannawambskek,'' meaning "where the ledges spread out," referring to rapids and drops in the river bed. The French established a Jesuit Catholic mission here in the 1680s. Nearly a century later after Great Britain took over French territory following its victory in the Seven Years' War, the area was settled by English pioneers in 1774. The name Old Town derives from "Indian Old Town", which was the English name for the largest Penobscot Indian village, now known as Indian Island. Located within the city limits but on its own island in the Penobscot River, the reservation is the current and hist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Concord, New Hampshire
Concord () is the capital city of the U.S. state of New Hampshire and the county seat, seat of Merrimack County, New Hampshire, Merrimack County. As of the 2020 United States census the population was 43,976, making it the List of municipalities in New Hampshire, 3rd most populous city in New Hampshire after Manchester, New Hampshire, Manchester and Nashua, New Hampshire, Nashua. The area was first settled by Europeans in 1659. On January 17, 1725, the Province of Massachusetts Bay granted the Concord area as the Plantation of Penacook, and it was incorporated on February 9, 1734, as the Town of Rumford. Governor Benning Wentworth gave the city its current name in 1765 following a boundary dispute with the neighboring town of Bow, New Hampshire, Bow; the name was meant to signify the new harmony between the two towns. In 1808, Concord was named the official seat of state government, and the New Hampshire State House, State House was completed in 1819; it remains the oldest U.S. st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1901 Colorado Silver And Gold Football Team
The 1901 Colorado Silver and Gold football team was an American football team that represented the University of Colorado as a member of the Colorado Football Association (CFA) during the 1901 college football season. Fred Folsom returned from a one-year absence for his sixth season as head coach and led Colorado to an overall record of 5–1–1 with a mark of 2–0 in conference play, winning the CFA championship. Schedule References {{Colorado Football Association champions Colorado Colorado is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States. It is one of the Mountain states, sharing the Four Corners region with Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah. It is also bordered by Wyoming to the north, Nebraska to the northeast, Kansas ... Colorado Buffaloes football seasons Colorado Football Association football champion seasons Colorado Silver and Gold football ... [...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] |
1899 Colorado Silver And Gold Football Team
The 1899 Colorado Silver and Gold football team was an American football team that represented the University of Colorado as a member of the Colorado Football Association (CFA) during the 1899 college football season. Led by fifth-year head coach Fred Folsom, Colorado compiled an overall record of 7–2 with a mark of 2–1 in conference play, placing second in the CFA. Schedule References Colorado Colorado is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States. It is one of the Mountain states, sharing the Four Corners region with Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah. It is also bordered by Wyoming to the north, Nebraska to the northeast, Kansas ... Colorado Buffaloes football seasons Colorado Silver and Gold football {{Colorado-sport-team-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1899 College Football Season
The 1899 college football season had no clear-cut champion, with the ''Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book'' listing Harvard and Princeton as having been selected national champions. Chicago, Kansas, and Sewanee went undefeated. With just 13 players, the Sewanee team, known as the "Iron Men", had a six-day road trip with five shutout wins over Texas A&M; Texas; Tulane; LSU; and Ole Miss. Sportswriter Grantland Rice called the group "the most durable football team I ever saw." Football in 1899 American football in 1899 remained a variant of rugby, played with a virtually identical ball and sharing a fundamental prohibition of use of the forward pass to advance the ball. The game was played on a field 110 yards long and 53-1/3 yards wide, marked off with white lines parallel to the goal lines every five yards. The game was played by teams of 11 players, aligned typically with 7 "rushers" or "forwards" at the line of scrimmage, and four "backs" behind them.Camp, "A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1898 Colorado Silver And Gold Football Team
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1898 College Football Season
The 1898 college football season had no clear-cut champion, with the ''Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book'' listing Harvard Crimson football, Harvard and Princeton Tigers football, Princeton as having been selected NCAA Division I FBS national football championship, national champions. Conference standings Independents See also * 1898 College Football All-America Team References 1898 college football season, {{Collegefootball-1898-season-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1897 Colorado Silver And Gold Football Team
The 1897 Colorado Silver and Gold football team was an American football team that represented the University of Colorado as a member of the Colorado Football Association (CFA) during the 1897 college football season. Led by third-year head coach Fred Folsom, Colorado compiled an overall record of 7–1 with a mark of 2–0 in conference play, winning the CFA title for the fourth consecutive year. Schedule References Colorado Colorado is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States. It is one of the Mountain states, sharing the Four Corners region with Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah. It is also bordered by Wyoming to the north, Nebraska to the northeast, Kansas ... Colorado Buffaloes football seasons Colorado Football Association football champion seasons Colorado Silver and Gold football {{Colorado-sport-team-stub ... [...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] |
1896 Colorado Silver And Gold Football Team
The 1896 Colorado Silver and Gold football team was an American football team that represented the University of Colorado as a member of the Colorado Football Association (CFA) during the 1896 college football season. Led by second-year head coach Fred Folsom, Colorado compiled an overall record of 5–0 with a mark of 2–0 in conference play, winning the CFA title for the third consecutive year. This was the program's first undefeated season. Schedule References Colorado Colorado is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States. It is one of the Mountain states, sharing the Four Corners region with Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah. It is also bordered by Wyoming to the north, Nebraska to the northeast, Kansas ... Colorado Buffaloes football seasons Colorado Football Association football champion seasons College football undefeated seasons Colorado Silver and Gold football {{Colorado-sport-team-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1896 College Football Season
The 1896 college football season had no clear-cut champion, with the ''Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book'' listing Lafayette Leopards football, Lafayette and Princeton Tigers football, Princeton as having been selected NCAA Division I FBS national football championship, national champions. Lafayette finished with an 11–0–1 record while Princeton had a 10–0–1 record. In the second game of the season for both teams, Lafayette and Princeton played to a scoreless tie. Both teams had signature wins: Lafayette defeated Penn 6–4, giving the Quakers their only loss of the season, while Princeton defeated previously unbeaten Yale, 24–6, on Thanksgiving Day in the last game of the season. Princeton was retroactively named the 1896 national champions by the Billingsley Report, the Helms Athletic Foundation, the Houlgate System, and Lafayette and Princeton were named national co-champions by the National Championship Foundation and Parke H. Davis, Parke Davis. Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
