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George Cafego
George Cafego ( ; August 29, 1915 – February 9, 1998) was an American football player and coach of football and baseball. He played college football at the University of Tennessee, earning varsity letters 1937–1939, and professionally in the National Football League (NFL) with the Brooklyn Dodgers, Washington Redskins, and Boston Yanks. He served as the head baseball coach at the University of Wyoming in 1950 and at his alma mater, Tennessee, from 1958 to 1962. Cafego was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a player in 1969. Career High school and collegiate career Born in rural Whipple, West Virginia to John Cafego and Mary (Rednock) Cafego, Cafego attended Oak Hill High School in nearby Oak Hill. Cafego was able to finish high school because his brother, Tom Cafego, supported the family by playing professional baseball during the summers and mining coal the rest of the year. He went to the University of Tennessee as a halfback under coach Robert Neyla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fullback (gridiron Football)
A fullback (FB) is a position in the offensive backfield in gridiron football and is one of the two running back positions along with the halfback. Fullbacks are typically larger than halfbacks, and, in most offensive schemes, the fullback's duties are split among power running, pass catching, and blocking for both the quarterback and the other running back. Many great runners in the history of American football have been fullbacks, including Jim Brown, Marion Motley, Bronko Nagurski, Jim Taylor, Franco Harris, Larry Csonka, Tom Rathman, John Riggins, Christian Okoye, and Levi Jackson. However, many of these runners would retroactively be labeled as halfbacks, due to their position as the primary ball carrier; they were primarily listed as fullbacks due to their size and did not often perform the run blocking duties expected of modern fullbacks. Examples of players who have excelled at the hybrid running–blocking–pass catching role include Mike Alstott, Larry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1939 College Football All-America Team
The 1939 College Football All-America team is composed of college football players who were selected as All-Americans by various organizations and writers that chose College Football All-America Teams in 1939. The nine selectors recognized by the NCAA as "official" for the 1939 season are (1) ''Collier's Weekly'', as selected by Grantland Rice, (2) the Associated Press, (3) the United Press, (4) the All-America Board, (5) the International News Service (INS), (6) ''Liberty'' magazine, (7) the Newspaper Enterprise Association (NEA), (8) ''Newsweek'', and (9) the ''Sporting News''. Two players, USC guard Harry Smith and Cornell tackle Nick Drahos, were unanimously chosen by all nine official selectors. Two other players, Iowa halfback Nile Kinnick and Michigan halfback Tom Harmon were selected as first-team All-Americans by eight of the nine official selectors, with Kinnick winning the Heisman Trophy in 1939 and Harmon winning it in 1940. Consensus All-Americans For the year 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
College Football
College football is gridiron football that is played by teams of amateur Student athlete, student-athletes at universities and colleges. It was through collegiate competition that gridiron football American football in the United States, first gained popularity in the United States. Like gridiron football generally, college football is most popular in the United States and Canada. While no single governing body exists for college football in the United States, most schools, especially those at the highest levels of play, are members of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, NCAA. In Canada, collegiate football competition is governed by U Sports for universities. The Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association (for colleges) governs soccer and other sports but not gridiron football. Other countries, such as Organización Nacional Estudiantil de Fútbol Americano, Mexico, American football in Japan, Japan and Korea American Football Association, South Korea, also host colle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baseball
Baseball is a bat-and-ball games, bat-and-ball sport played between two team sport, teams of nine players each, taking turns batting (baseball), batting and Fielding (baseball), fielding. The game occurs over the course of several Pitch (baseball), plays, with each play beginning when a player on the fielding team (baseball), fielding team, called the pitcher, throws a Baseball (ball), ball that a player on the batting team (baseball), batting team, called the Batter (baseball), batter, tries to hit with a baseball bat, bat. The objective of the offensive team (batting team) is to hit the ball into the field of play, away from the other team's players, allowing its players to run the Base (baseball), bases, having them advance counter-clockwise around four bases to score what are called "Run (baseball), runs". The objective of the defensive team (referred to as the fielding team) is to prevent batters from becoming Base running, runners, and to prevent runners base running ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Football
American football, referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada and also known as gridiron football, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular American football field, field with goalposts at each end. The offense (sports), offense, the team with possession of the oval-shaped Ball (gridiron football), football, attempts to advance down the field by Rush (gridiron football), running with the ball or Forward pass#Gridiron football, throwing it, while the Defense (sports), defense, the team without possession of the ball, aims to stop the offense's advance and to take control of the ball for themselves. The offense must advance the ball at least ten yard, yards in four Down (gridiron football), downs or plays; if they fail, they turnover on downs, turn over the football to the defense, but if they succeed, they are given a new set of four downs to continue the Glossary of American football#drive, drive. Points are scored primarily b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reception (gridiron Football)
In gridiron football, a reception, also known informally as a catch, is part of a passing play in which a player in bounds successfully catches (receives) a forward pass thrown from their team's quarterback behind the line of scrimmage. In most cases, after making the catch, the receiver will then proceed to run towards the opposing end zone carrying the ball and try to score a touchdown, unless the play ends due to him being downed or forced out of bounds. Yardage gained from the passing play are credited to the catcher as his receiving yards. If the pass is not caught by anyone, it is called an incomplete pass or simply an "incompletion". If the pass is caught by an opposing player, it is called an interception. A reception should not be confused with a lateral, also known as a lateral pass or backward pass, which is a legal pass anywhere on the field. In a lateral pass, the ball is thrown backwards or sideways to a teammate with no vector Vector most often refers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Passer Rating
Passer rating (also known as passing efficiency in college football) is a measure of the performance of passers, primarily quarterbacks, in gridiron football. There are two formulas currently in use: one used by both the National Football League (NFL) and Canadian Football League (CFL), and the other used in NCAA football. Passer rating is calculated using a player's passing attempts, completions, yards, touchdowns, and interceptions. Passer rating in the NFL is on a scale from 0 to 158.3. Passing efficiency in college football is on a scale from −731.6 to 1261.6. Since 1973, passer rating has been the official formula used by the NFL to determine its passing leader. Passer rating is sometimes colloquially referred to as ''quarterback rating'' or ''QB rating''; however, the statistic applies only to passing (not to other contributions by a quarterback) and applies to any player at any position who throws a forward pass, not just to quarterbacks. Other measurements, such as E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Interception
In Ball game, ball-playing Competitive sport, competitive team sports, an interception or pick is a move by a player involving a pass of the ball—whether by foot or hand, depending on the rules of the sport—in which the ball is intended for a player of the same team but caught or otherwise brought under control by a player of the opposing team, who thereby usually gains possession of the ball for their team. It is commonly seen in football, including American football, American and Canadian football, as well as association football, rugby league, rugby union, Australian rules football and Gaelic football, as well as any sport by which a loose object is passed between players toward a goal. In basketball, this is called a Steal (basketball), steal. Gridiron football In American football and Canadian football, an interception occurs when a forward pass that has not yet touched the ground is caught by a player of the defensive team. This leads to an immediate change of possess ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Touchdown
A touchdown (abbreviated as TD) is a scoring play in gridiron football. Scoring a touchdown grants the team that scored it 6 points. Whether running, passing, returning a kickoff or punt, or recovering a turnover, a team scores a touchdown by advancing the football into the opponent's end zone. More specifically, a touchdown is when a player is in possession of the ball, any part of the ball is in the end zone they are attacking, and the player is not down. Because of the speed at which football happens, it is often hard for an official to make the correct call based on their vantage point alone. Most professional football leagues, such as the National Football League (NFL) and the Canadian Football League (CFL), as well as some college leagues, such as the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), allow certain types of plays to be reviewed. Among these plays are touchdowns, as well as all other scoring plays, dangerous or unsportsmanlike conduct by players o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1937 All-SEC Football Team
The 1937 All-SEC football team consists of American football players selected to the All-Southeastern Conference (SEC) chosen by various selectors for the 1937 college football season. Alabama won the conference. All-SEC selections Ends * Bill Jordan, Georgia Tech (AP-1, UP-1) *Tut Warren, Alabama (AP-1, UP-2) *Perron Shoemaker, Alabama (AP-2, UP-1) * Ralph Wenzel, Tulane (AP-2) *Bob Kincade, Ole Miss (UP-2) *Bowden Wyatt, Tennessee (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-3) *Ken Kavanaugh, LSU (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-3) Tackles *Frank Kinard, Ole Miss (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1, UP-1) * Eddie Gatto, LSU (AP-1, UP-2) * Bo Russell, Auburn (AP-2, UP-1) *Jim Ryba, Alabama (AP-3, UP-2) *Baby Ray, Vanderbilt (AP-2) * Ben Friend, LSU (AP-3) Guards * Leroy Monsky, Alabama (AP-1, UP-1) *Ralph Sivell, Auburn (AP-1, UP-1) *Ed Merlin, Vanderbilt (AP-2, UP-2) *Ed Sydnor, Kentucky (AP-2) *Norman Buckner, Tulane (UP-2) *Norman Hall, Tulane (AP-3) *Elijah Tinsley, Georgia ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1939 All-SEC Football Team
The 1939 All-SEC football team consists of American football players selected to the All-Southeastern Conference (SEC) chosen by various selectors for the 1939 college football season. Tennessee won the conference. All-SEC selections Ends *Ken Kavanaugh, LSU (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1, UP-1) * Bob Ison, Georgia Tech (AP-1, UP-1) * Ralph Wenzel, Tulane (AP-2, UP-2) * Buddy Elrod, Miss. St. (AP-2) * Ed Cifers, Tennessee (UP-2) *Hal Newman, Alabama (AP-3) *McCubbin, Kentucky (AP-3) Tackles * Harley McCollum, Tulane (AP-1, UP-1) * Abe Shires, Tennessee (AP-1, UP-2) *John Eibner, Kentucky (AP-2, UP-1) *Clark Goff, Florida (AP-3, UP-2) * Fred Davis, Alabama (AP-2) *Walter Merrill, Alabama (AP-3) Guards * Ed Molinski, Tennessee (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1, UP-2) *Bob Suffridge, Tennessee (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-2, UP-1) *Milton Howell, Auburn (AP-2, UP-1) *John W. Goree, LSU (AP-1) *Cavette, Georgia Tech (AP-3, UP-2) *Tommy O'Boyle, Tulane (AP-3) Cente ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1938 All-SEC Football Team
The 1938 All-SEC football team consists of American football players selected to the All-Southeastern Conference (SEC) chosen by various selectors for the 1938 college football season. Tennessee won the conference. All-SEC selections Ends *Bowden Wyatt, Tennessee (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1, UP-1) *Ken Kavanaugh, LSU (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1, UP-2) * Marvin Franklin, Vanderbilt (AP-2, UP-1) * Ralph Wenzel, Tulane (AP-2, UP-2) Tackles *Eddie Gatto, LSU (AP-1, UP-1) * Bo Russell, Auburn (AP-1, UP-1) *Maurice Holdgraff, Vanderbilt (AP-2, UP-2) *Ray Miller, Tulane (AP-2) * Abe Shires, Tennessee (UP-2) Guards *Bob Suffridge, Tennessee (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1, UP-1) *James L. Brooks, Georgia Tech (AP-1) *Lou Bostick, Alabama (UP-1) *John W. Goree, LSU (AP-2) *Milton Howell, Auburn (AP-2) * Ed Molinski, Tennessee (College Football Hall of Fame) (UP-2) *Frank Koscis, Florida (UP-2) Centers *Jack Chivington, Georgia Tech (AP-2, UP-1) *Quinton Lumpk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
