1902 Virginia Cavaliers Football Team
The 1902 Virginia Cavaliers football team represented the University of Virginia in the 1902 college football season. Led by first year coach John de Saulles, the team went 8–1–1 and claims a Southern championship. Schedule Honors and awards * All-Southern: Thomas Bronston, Henry Johnson, Walter Council, John Pollard. References {{Independent southern football champions Virginia Virginia Cavaliers football seasons Virginia Cavaliers football The Virginia Cavaliers football team represents the University of Virginia in the sport of American football. Established in 1888, Virginia plays its home games at Scott Stadium, capacity 61,500, featured directly on its campus near the Academi ...

John De Saulles
John Gerard Longer de Saulles (May 25, 1878 – August 3, 1917) was an American football player and coach, real estate broker, and businessman whose murder by his millionaire wife (accused, but acquitted) led to a widely reported trial. Early life John "Jack" Gerald Longer de Saulles was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania on May 25, 1878 to Arthur Brice de Saulles and Catherine Margaret Heckscher, a daughter of New York City merchant Charles August Heckscher. He became a star quarterback and captain of the Yale University's varsity team of 1901, being named to the 1901 College Football All-America Team by the ''New York Post''. In 1902 he was appointed as head football coach at the University of Virginia, where he compiled an 8–1–1 record in one season. In 1911, de Saulles travelled to Chile as representative of the ''South American Concessions Syndicate'', a concern made up largely of Americans living in London, which was active in promoting the Trans Andean Railroad, connectin ...
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Baltimore
Baltimore ( , locally: or ) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Maryland, fourth most populous city in the Mid-Atlantic, and the 30th most populous city in the United States with a population of 585,708 in 2020. Baltimore was designated an independent city by the Constitution of Maryland in 1851, and today is the most populous independent city in the United States. As of 2021, the population of the Baltimore metropolitan area was estimated to be 2,838,327, making it the 20th largest metropolitan area in the country. Baltimore is located about north northeast of Washington, D.C., making it a principal city in the Washington–Baltimore combined statistical area (CSA), the third-largest CSA in the nation, with a 2021 estimated population of 9,946,526. Prior to European colonization, the Baltimore region was used as hunting grounds by the Susquehannock Native Americans, who were primarily settled further northwest than where the city was later built. Colonist ...
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John Beverly Pollard
John Beverly Pollard (November 9, 1880 – October 2, 1960) was an American college football player and coach and surgeon in the Medical Corps of the United States Navy. Early years Pollard was born on November 9, 1880, in Aylett, Virginia, to E. S. Pollard, Esq. University of Virginia Pollard was an All-Southern quarterback for the Virginia Cavaliers of the University of Virginia, and a member of the Virginia Glee Club. He also played on the baseball teams. At Virginia he was a member of the Kappa Sigma fraternity. Pollard was known for his speed. He mentored the backup Oscar Randolph. He was once University Demonstrator of Anatomy. After university he became a captain and surgeon in the US Navy Medical Corps. Coaching career Pollard coached Virginia's baseball team in 1906. He served as a co-head football coach at Davidson College in Davidson, North Carolina Davidson is a suburban town located in northern Mecklenburg and Iredell counties, North Carolina, United State ...
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Walter Council
Walter Wooten "Bull" Council (April 25, 1882 – November 13, 1943) was a college football player and physician. Early years Walter Council was born on April 25, 1882, in Council, North Carolina, which was named for his father, John Pickett Council. His mother was Johnanna Wooten Council. (Her first name, seen in various spellings, is listed as spelled in family records; it derives in part as a tribute to her father, John Wooten, who was thrown from a horse and killed before Johnanna's birth.) University of North Carolina Council was a prominent center for the North Carolina Tar Heels football teams of the University of North Carolina from 1900 to 1901. University of Virginia 1902 John de Saulles brought him to the Virginia Cavaliers football team of 1902, where he played tackle, one of the best in the school's history. Council was selected All-Southern in 1902. He played opposite Branch Johnson on the line. Physician He came to Alaska as a youth of 24 in 1905, less than ...
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College Football All-Southern Team
The College Football All-Southern Team was an all-star team of college football players from the Southern United States. The honor was given annually to the best players at their respective positions. It is analogous to the All-America Team and was most often selected in newspapers. Notable pickers of All-Southern teams include John Heisman, Dan McGugin, George C. Marshall, Grantland Rice, W. A. Lambeth, Reynolds Tichenor, Nash Buckingham, Innis Brown, and Dick Jemison. Football in the south Princeton's 115-0 drubbing of Virginia in 1890 marked football's arrival in the south. Conference play Major football programs in the South used to include: members of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA), the conference representative of the Deep South and used more strictly to mean the South east of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, the predecessor to today's Southeastern Conference (SEC, which originally represented the Southern states west and south of the Appalac ...
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South's Oldest Rivalry
The South's Oldest Rivalry is the name given to the North Carolina–Virginia football rivalry. It is an American college football rivalry game played annually by the Virginia Cavaliers football team of the University of Virginia and the North Carolina Tar Heels football team of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Both have been members of the Atlantic Coast Conference since 1953, but the Cavaliers and Tar Heels have squared off at least fifteen more times than any other two ACC football programs. Virginia and North Carolina also have extensive rivalries in several other sports. The South's Oldest Rivalry is not actually the "oldest" rivalry, as the Auburn-Georgia series (Deep South's Oldest Rivalry) played its first game 245 days before the first North Carolina-Virginia matchup. But nonetheless it is so named not only because of the extraordinary age and length of the series, but because of the immense early success of both programs and the great regional importa ...
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Richmond, Virginia
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Broad Street Park (Richmond, Virginia)
Broad Street Park, sometimes spelled Broad-Street Park, was the name for two stadiums located in Richmond, Virginia. Broad Street Park (I) was open from 1897 to 1912 and Broad Street Park (II) was used from 1913 to 1916. They hosted college football and Minor League Baseball. Broad Street Park served as the home field for the Richmond Spiders football team of Richmond College—now known as the University of Richmond—from 1897 to 1916. History Broad Street Park opened in 1897 as the home field for the Richmond Bluebirds of Atlantic League. It was the largest athletic facility constructed in Richmond at the time, with a seating capacity over 6,000. Home plate was situated 80 feet from the grandstand. The field dimensions were 295 feet down the left field foul line and 340 feet down the right field foul line, with the fences extending to a distance of 560 feet from home place in right field. The stadium was located on Broad Street near its dead-end intersection with Allen Ave ...
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1902 North Carolina Tar Heels Football Team
The 1902 North Carolina Tar Heels football team represented the University of North Carolina in the 1902 college football season. Schedule References North Carolina North Carolina Tar Heels football seasons North Carolina Tar Heels football The North Carolina Tar Heels football team represents the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the sport of American football or Gridiron Football. The Tar Heels play in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) of the National Collegiate ...

Norfolk, Virginia
Norfolk ( ) is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. Incorporated in 1705, it had a population of 238,005 at the 2020 census, making it the third-most populous city in Virginia after neighboring Virginia Beach and Chesapeake, and the 94th-largest city in the nation. Norfolk holds a strategic position as the historical, urban, financial, and cultural center of the Hampton Roads region, which has more than 1.8 million inhabitants and is the thirty-third largest Metropolitan Statistical area in the United States. Officially known as ''Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, VA-NC MSA'', the Hampton Roads region is sometimes called "Tidewater" and "Coastal Virginia"/"COVA," although these are broader terms that also include Virginia's Eastern Shore and entire coastal plain. Named for the eponymous natural harbor at the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay, Hampton Roads has ten cities, including Norfolk; seven counties in Virginia; and two counties in No ...
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1902 Carlisle Indians Football Team
The 1902 Carlisle Indians football team represented the Carlisle Indian Industrial School as an independent during the 1902 college football season. Led by fourth-year head coach Pop Warner, the Indians compiled a record of 8–3 and outscored opponents 251 to 51. Schedule References Carlisle Carlisle Indians football seasons Carlisle Indians football The Carlisle Indians football team represented the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in intercollegiate football competition. The program was active from 1893 until 1917, when it was discontinued. During the program's 25 years, the Indians compile ...

Richmond Times-Dispatch
The ''Richmond Times-Dispatch'' (''RTD'' or ''TD'' for short) is the primary daily newspaper in Richmond, Virginia, Richmond, the capital of Virginia, and the primary newspaper of record for the state of Virginia. Circulation The ''Times-Dispatch'' has the second-highest circulation of any Virginia newspaper, after Norfolk, Virginia, Norfolk's ''The Virginian-Pilot''. In addition to the Richmond area (Petersburg, Virginia, Petersburg, Chester, Virginia, Chester, Hopewell, Virginia, Hopewell, Colonial Heights, Virginia, Colonial Heights and surrounding areas), the ''Times-Dispatch'' has substantial readership in Charlottesville, Lynchburg, Virginia, Lynchburg, and Waynesboro, Virginia, Waynesboro. As the primary paper of the state's capital, the ''Times-Dispatch'' serves as a newspaper of record for rural regions of the state that lack large local papers. The ''Times-Dispatch'' lists itself as "Virginia's News Leader" on its Nameplate (publishing), masthead. History and notable ac ...
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