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Gus Sonnenberg
Gustave Adolph Sonnenberg (March 6, 1898 – September 9, 1944) was an American football player and professional wrestler of German descent and World Heavyweight Championship (Original), World Heavyweight Champion. As a wrestler, he was National Wrestling Association (NWA) world heavyweight champion. He played in the National Football League (NFL) from 1923 until 1930, for the Buffalo All-Americans, Columbus Tigers, Detroit Panthers (NFL), Detroit Panthers, and Providence Steam Roller, where he was a member of the List of NFL champions, 1928 NFL championship team. Football Born in Ewen, Michigan, Sonnenberg grew up on a farm in Green Garden, Michigan. He played football at Marquette High School from 1912 to 1915, playing on Marquette's Upper Peninsula of Michigan, Upper Peninsula championship team in 1915 when the team went 6–0, outscoring opponents 211 to 7.Oberthaler, Joan, "Gus Sonnenberg, Football Star, Champion of the World," Marquette Monthly, October 2000Da Yoopers Hall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ewen, Michigan
Ewen is an Unincorporated area#United States, unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in McMillan Township, Ontonagon County, Michigan, McMillan Township, Ontonagon County, Michigan, Ontonagon County, Michigan, United States. It is situated on the Upper Peninsula of Michigan along Highway M-28 (Michigan highway), M-28, which leads east to Covington, Michigan, Covington and west to Wakefield, Michigan, Wakefield. Ewen was first listed as a CDP prior to the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. Demographics References Census-designated places in Ontonagon County, Michigan Census-designated places in Michigan Unincorporated communities in Ontonagon County, Michigan Unincorporated communities in Michigan {{OntonagonCountyMI-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Specialist (rank)
Specialist is a military rank in some countries' armed forces. Two branches of the United States Armed Forces use the rank. It is one of the four junior enlisted ranks in the United States Army, above private (PVT), private (PV2), and private first class and is equivalent in pay grade to corporal; in the United States Space Force, four grades of specialist comprise the four junior enlisted ranks below the rank of sergeant. Denmark Regular forces In the Royal Danish Navy and Royal Danish Air Force, the rank of specialist is branch-specific; "Naval specialist" and "Air force specialist" () respectively. The ranks are placed below corporal and above private first class (). They are rated OR-3 within NATO and the rank has the grade of M112 within the Ministry of Defence's pay structure. Home guard In 2018, new specialist ranks were introduced to the Danish Home Guard. These new ranks were created to remove the need for leadership training at the lower ranks, as the selecte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ed Lewis (wrestler)
Robert Herman Julius Friedrich (June 30, 1891 – August 8, 1966), better known by the ring name Ed "Strangler" Lewis, was an American professional wrestler and trainer. During his wrestling career, which spanned four decades, Lewis was a four-time World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion and overall recognized officially as a five-time world champion. Considered to be one of the most iconic and recognizable sports stars of the 1920s, often alongside boxer Jack Dempsey and baseball player Babe Ruth, Lewis notably wrestled in over 6,000 matches (many of which were real contests) and lost only 32 of them. He was posthumously inducted as a charter member into the following halls of fame: ''Wrestling Observer Newsletter'', Professional Wrestling, George Tragos/Lou Thesz and WWE's Legacy Wing. One of the most legitimately feared grapplers of all time, Lewis was known for his catch wrestling prowess and trained many future champions, most notably Lou Thesz, Danny Hodge, Dick Hutton ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Bowser
Paul Forbes Bowser (May 28, 1886 – July 17, 1960) was an American professional wrestling promoter who was active from the 1920s to the 1950s in the Boston area.Tim Hornbaker,Paul Bowser Biography" 2006 Wrestler Bowser grew up on a farm in western Pennsylvania and attended Beaver College before becoming a professional wrestler and touring with the Pollock Brothers Circus. He moved to Newark, Ohio, in 1912 and began to promote wrestling shows, often working as a referee. In 1913 he married women's wrestling champion Cora Livingstone. That same year, he opened a wrestling school in Newark. On March 10, 1916, Bowser became world middleweight champion, defeating Joe Turner in Newark. In November 1919, he and a co-defendant were successfully sued by Kelton Mitchell, who claimed he had been conned out of $2,300 that was bet on a fixed wrestling match in 1917. Bowser moved to Boston in 1922, running shows against the area's established promoter, George V. Tuohey. Within a year, Bow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Detroit Mercy
The University of Detroit Mercy is a private Catholic university in Detroit, Michigan, United States. It is sponsored by both the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) and the Sisters of Mercy. The university was founded in 1877 and is the largest Catholic university in Michigan. It has four campuses where it offers more than 100 academic degree programs. In athletics, the university sponsors 17 NCAA Division I sports for men and women. It is a member of the Horizon League. History University of Detroit Mercy's origin dates back to 1877 with the founding of Detroit College near Detroit's downtown, by the Society of Jesus, under the leadership of John Baptist Miège, S.J. The college became the University of Detroit in 1911, and in 1927 John P. McNichols, the then-president of the University of Detroit, established a second campus that ended up being known by its Spanish architecture and large elm trees. In 1941, the Sisters of Mercy opened Mercy College of Detroit. Both schools saw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dartmouth College
Dartmouth College ( ) is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. Established in 1769 by Eleazar Wheelock, Dartmouth is one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution. Emerging into national prominence at the turn of the 20th century, Dartmouth has since been considered among the most prestigious undergraduate colleges in the United States. Although originally established to educate Native Americans in the United States, Native Americans in Christian theology and the Anglo-American way of life, the university primarily trained Congregationalism in the United States, Congregationalist ministers during its early history before it gradually secularized. While Dartmouth is now a research university rather than simply an undergraduate college, it continues to go by "Dartmouth College" to emphasize its focus on undergraduate education. Following a liberal arts curriculum, Dartmouth provides unde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Upper Peninsula Of Michigan
The Upper Peninsula of Michigan—also known as Upper Michigan or colloquially the U.P. or Yoop—is the northern and more elevated of the two major landmasses that make up the U.S. state of Michigan; it is separated from the Lower Peninsula of Michigan, Lower Peninsula by the Straits of Mackinac. It is bounded primarily by Lake Superior to the north, separated from the Canadian province of Ontario at the east end by the St. Marys River (Michigan–Ontario), St. Marys River, and flanked by Lake Huron and Lake Michigan along much of its south. Although the peninsula extends as a geographic feature into the state of Wisconsin, the state boundary follows the Montreal River (Wisconsin–Michigan), Montreal and Menominee River, Menominee rivers and a line connecting them. First inhabited by Algonquian languages, Algonquian-speaking native American tribes, the area was explored by French colonists, then occupied by British forces, before being ceded to the newly established United Sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of NFL Champions
Throughout its history, the National Football league (NFL) and other rival American football leagues have used several different formats to determine their league champions, including a period of inter-league matchups to determine a true national champion. Following its founding in Canton, Ohio (1920), the NFL first determined champions through end-of-season standings, switching to a playoff system in 1933 (a one-game playoff was required in 1932). The rival All-America Football Conference (AAFC) and American Football League (AFL) have since merged with the NFL (the only two AAFC teams that currently exist, the Cleveland Browns and the San Francisco 49ers, joined the NFL in ), but AAFC Championship Games and records were not included in the NFL's record books until 2025. The AFL began play in 1960 and, like its rival league, used a playoff system to determine its champion, the NFL also incorporated AFL championship games and records in league recordbooks when they merged in 1970. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Football League
The National Football League (NFL) is a Professional gridiron football, professional American football league in the United States. Composed of 32 teams, it is divided equally between the American Football Conference (AFC) and the National Football Conference (NFC). The NFL is one of the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada and the highest professional level of American football in the world. Each NFL season begins annually with a NFL preseason, three-week preseason in August, followed by the NFL regular season, 18-week regular season, which runs from early September to early January, with each team playing 17 games and having one Bye (sports), bye week. Following the conclusion of the regular season, seven teams from each conference, including the four division winners and three Wild card (sports), wild card teams, advance to the NFL playoffs, playoffs, a single-elimination tournament, which culminates in the Super Bowl, played in early February ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Wrestling Association
The National Wrestling Association (NWA) was an early professional wrestling sanctioning body created in 1930 by the National Boxing Association (NBA; now the World Boxing Association, WBA) as an attempt to create a governing body for professional wrestling in the United States. The group created a number of "World" level championships as an attempt to clear up the professional wrestling rankings which at the time saw a number of different championships promoted as the "true world champion". The National Wrestling Association's NWA World Heavyweight Championship was later considered part of the historical lineage of the National Wrestling Alliance's NWA World Heavyweight Championship when then National Wrestling Association champion Lou Thesz won the National Wrestling Alliance championship, folding the original championship into one title in 1949. With the creation of the National Wrestling Alliance and Thesz winning the Alliance's world title, the National Wrestling Associatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sonnenberg (other)
Sonnenberg may refer to: Places * Sonnenberg, a municipality in the Oberhavel district, in Brandenburg, Germany. * Sonnenberg-Winnenberg, a municipality in the district of Birkenfeld, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany * Wiesbaden-Sonnenberg, a borough of Wiesbaden, the capital of the state of Hesse, Germany * Sonnenberg (Winterthur), a quarter in the district 3 of Winterthur, Switzerland * Sonnenberg (Harz), a ski resort in the Upper Harz in Lower Saxony, Germany * Výsluní (Sonnenberg), a town in Chomutov District, Czech Republic * The Sonnenberg Tunnel, a motorway tunnel near Lucerne, Switzerland * Sonnenberg Gardens and Mansion State Historic Park, in Canandaigua, New York Mountains and hills * Sonnenberg (Kriens), hill near the city of Lucerne in Switzerland * Sonnenberg (Leitha), highest peak in the Leitha Mountains, Burgenland, Austria * Sonnenberg (Eifel), hill in the Eifel mountains of Germany * Sonnenberg, also called the Sonnenspitze, a mountain in the Ammergau A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World Heavyweight Championship (Original)
World heavyweight championship may refer to: * List of heavyweight boxing champions, World heavyweight boxing championship (professional) ** World Colored Heavyweight Championship (early twentieth-century) * World heavyweight championship (professional wrestling) ** AAA Mega Championship ** AWA World Heavyweight Championship ** CMLL World Heavyweight Championship ** ECW World Heavyweight Championship ** GHC Heavyweight Championship ** Impact World Championship ** IWGP Heavyweight Championship ** IWGP World Heavyweight Championship ** NWA Worlds Heavyweight Championship ** NXT Championship ** ROH World Championship ** Triple Crown Heavyweight Championship ** WCW International World Heavyweight Championship ** WCW World Heavyweight Championship ** World championships in WWE ** World Heavyweight Championship (WWE, 2002–2013) ** World Heavyweight Championship (WWE, 2023–present) ** World Heavyweight Championship (Zero1), World Zero Heavyweight Championship (Zero1) ** World Heavyweight ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
