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1896 Storrs Aggies Football Team
The 1896 Storrs Aggies football team represented Storrs Agricultural College, now the University of Connecticut, in the 1896 college football season. This was the first year that the school fielded a football team. The Aggies completed the season with a record of 5–3, against a mix of nearby high school and YMCA teams. Schedule References 1896 college football season, Storrs UConn Huskies football seasons 1896 in sports in Connecticut, Storrs Aggies football {{Connecticut-sport-team-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Storrs Agricultural College
The University of Connecticut (UConn) is a public land-grant research university in Storrs, Connecticut, a village in the town of Mansfield. The primary 4,400-acre (17.8 km2) campus is in Storrs, approximately a half hour's drive from Hartford and 90 minutes from Boston. UConn was founded in 1881 as the Storrs Agricultural School, named after two brothers who donated the land for the school. In 1893, the school became a public land grant college, becoming the University of Connecticut in 1939. Over the following decade, social work, nursing and graduate programs were established, while the schools of law and pharmacy were also absorbed into the university. During the 1960s, UConn Health was established for new medical and dental schools. John Dempsey Hospital opened in Farmington in 1975. The university is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity". The university has been considered a Public Ivy. UConn is one of the founding instituti ... [...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 and Princeton as having been selected 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 Davis. Conference and program changes Conference changes * The Intercollegiate Conference of Faculty Representatives, commonly known ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rockville High School (Connecticut)
Rockville High School is a public secondary school located in Vernon, Connecticut. The school also serves as a vocational agriculture school for the region. The school was established in 1870 and its current building was built in 1958. Alumni * Gene Pitney 2002 inductee to the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame * Charles Ethan Porter African American still life painter * Bill Romanowski former professional American football player * William J. Shea Connecticut Supreme Court justice''Connecticut Reports'' (1965), volume 152, pp. 758–759. * Mark Warner former Governor and current Senator from Virginia Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States, between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains. The geography and climate of the Commonwealth ar ... References External links * Vernon Public Schools website Schools in Tolland County, Connecticut Educational institutions est ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rockville, Connecticut
Rockville is a census-designated place and a village of the town of Vernon in Tolland County, Connecticut, United States. The population was 7,474 at the 2010 census. Incorporated as a city in 1889, it has been consolidated with the town of Vernon since 1965. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of , of which is land and (1.70%) is water. History Early settlement In 1726, Samuel Grant traded his farm in Bolton for in the northern part of Bolton. This included the area which is now known as "Rockville" and for about the next century it was a nameless village. A prominent feature of the area is the Shenipsit Lake, or "The Snip" as it is currently affectionately called by the residents. The Snip feeds the Hockanum River which cascades 254 feet over . The river was used by the farmers for a grist mill, a saw mill, an oil mill and even a distillery starting . Rock Mill In 1821, Colonel Francis McLean built the first textile mill in w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norwich Free Academy
The Norwich Free Academy (NFA), founded in 1854 and in operation since 1856, is a coeducational independent school for students between the 9th and 12th grade. Located in Norwich, Connecticut, the Academy serves as the primary high school for Norwich and the surrounding towns of Canterbury, Connecticut, Canterbury, Bozrah, Connecticut, Bozrah, Voluntown, Connecticut, Voluntown, Sprague, Connecticut, Sprague, Lisbon, Connecticut, Lisbon, Franklin, Connecticut, Franklin, Preston, Connecticut, Preston, and Brooklyn, Connecticut, Brooklyn. It was recognized by the U.S. Department of Education as a National Blue Ribbon School of Excellence in 2001. Incorporated in 1855 by an act of the Connecticut Legislature, the Academy is an independent school and operates as a privately endowed educational institution that is governed by its board of trustees. One of the state's three endowed, independent academies, the Connecticut State Department of Education refers to the Academy as "a privately ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norwich, Connecticut
Norwich ( ) (also called "The Rose of New England") is a city in New London County, Connecticut, United States. The Yantic, Shetucket, and Quinebaug Rivers flow into the city and form its harbor, from which the Thames River flows south to Long Island Sound. The population was 40,125 at the 2020 United States Census. History The town of Norwich was founded on the site of what is now Norwichtown in 1659 by settlers from Saybrook Colony led by Major John Mason and James Fitch. They purchased the land "nine miles square" that became Norwich from Mohegan Sachem Uncas. One of the co-founders of Norwich was Thomas Leffingwell who rescued Uncas when surrounded by his Narragansett enemies, and whose son established the Leffingwell Inn. In 1668, a wharf was established at Yantic Cove. Settlement was primarily in the area around the Norwichtown Green. The 69 founding families soon divided up the land in the Norwichtown vicinity for farms and businesses. By 1694, the public landing bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Storrs, Connecticut
Storrs is a village and census-designated place (CDP) in the New England town, town of Mansfield, Connecticut, Mansfield in eastern Tolland County, Connecticut, Tolland County, Connecticut, United States. The population was 15,344 at the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census. It is dominated economically and demographically by the main campus of the University of Connecticut and the associated Connecticut Repertory Theatre. Storrs was named for Charles and Augustus Storrs, two brothers who founded the University of Connecticut (originally called the Storrs Agricultural College) by giving the land () and $6,000 in 1881. In the aftermath of September 2005's Hurricane Katrina, ''Slate (magazine), Slate'' named Storrs "America's Best Place to Avoid Death Due to Natural Disaster." Storrs is also home to the new UConn Huskies baseball, University of Connecticut Huskies baseball's home stadium, Elliot Ballpark, which replaced J. O. Christian Field. Geography According to the United Sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Middletown High School (Connecticut)
Middletown High School (MHS) is a public high school located in Middletown, Connecticut Middletown is a city located in Middlesex County, Connecticut, United States, Located along the Connecticut River, in the central part of the state, it is south of Hartford, Connecticut, Hartford. In 1650, it was incorporated by English settler ..., United States. It is a part of Middletown Public Schools. Athletics Athletic activities include football, volleyball, cross country, crew, swimming and diving, cheerleading, soccer, basketball, wrestling, baseball, softball, track, tennis, golf, and ultimate Frisbee. References External links * Public high schools in Connecticut Buildings and structures in Middletown, Connecticut Middletown, Connecticut Educational institutions established in 1840 1840 establishments in Connecticut {{Connecticut-school-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willimantic High School , a tributary of the Shetucket River
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Willimantic may refer to: * Willimantic, Connecticut, village of Windham, in Windham County, Connecticut, United States * Willimantic, Maine, town in Piscataquis County, Maine, United States * USS Willimantic (ID-3549), United States Navy cargo ship * Willimantic River The Willimantic River is a tributary of the Shetucket River, approximately 25 mi (40 km) long in northeastern Connecticut in the New England region of the United States. It is formed in northern Tolland County, near Stafford Springs b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willimantic, Connecticut
Willimantic is a city located in the town of Windham, Connecticut, Windham in Windham County, Connecticut, United States. It is a former Census-designated place and Borough (Connecticut), borough, and is currently organized as one of two Local government in Connecticut#Special tax and service districts, tax districts within the Town of Windham. Known as "Thread City" for the American Thread Company's mills along the Willimantic River, it was a center of the textile industry in the 19th century. Originally incorporated as a city in 1893, it entered a period of decline after the Second World War, culminating in the mill's closure and the city's reabsorption into the town of Windham in the 1980s. Heroin use, present since the 1960s, became a major public health problem in the early 2000s, declining somewhat by the 2010s. Though the city was a major rail hub, an Interstate Highway System, Interstate Highway has never passed within ten miles, despite early plans to connect it. Willimant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
UConn Huskies Football Seasons
The UConn Huskies football college football team competes as part of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I Football Bowl Subdivision, representing the University of Connecticut as an Independent. The Huskies have played their home games at Rentschler Field in East Hartford, Connecticut since 2003. From 1953 through 2002, the team played home games at Memorial Stadium on campus in Storrs, Connecticut. The Huskies have recorded 26 conference championships, and have played in 7 Bowl Games, winning 3. Connecticut made one appearance in the Division I-AA (now FCS) playoffs, in 1998. Seasons Notes References {{NCAA Division I FBS independents team seasons Connecticut Huskies * UConn Huskies football seasons The UConn Huskies football college football team competes as part of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I Football Bowl Subdivision, representing the University of Connecticut as an Independent. The Huskies have playe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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