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1915 Washington State Cougars Football Team
The 1915 Washington State football team represented Washington State College during the 1915 college football season as an independent. The offense scored 204 points while the defense allowed only ten points, with five shutouts. Led by head coach William Dietz, the team won all seven games, including the Rose Bowl on New Year's Day in Pasadena, California. For the first of two consecutive years, Washington State did not play in-state rival Washington. In 2014, Washington State Senate Resolution 8715 recognized the 1915 Washington State College football team as national champions. The resolution on the team's 99th anniversary was sponsored by State Senator Michael Baumgartner, an alumni of WSU. The senate resolution was adopted with WSU head football coach Mike Leach in attendance. Schedule References External linksOfficial Rose Bowl game program: W.S.C. vs. Brown– January 1, 1916 Washington State Washington (), officially the State of Washington, is a state ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Henry Dietz
William Henry "Lone Star" Dietz (August 17, 1884 – July 20, 1964) was an American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Washington State University (1915–1917), Purdue University (1921), Louisiana Tech University (1922–1923), University of Wyoming (1924–1926), Haskell Institute—now known as Haskell Indian Nations University (1929–1932), and Albright College (1937–1942). From 1933 to 1934, Dietz served as the head coach for the National Football League's Boston Redskins, where he tallied a mark of 11–11–2. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 2012. Early life According to census records and to his birth certificate, he was born William Henry Dietz, or "Willie," on August 17, 1884, in Rice Lake, Wisconsin, at 16 West Humbird Street. His father William Wallace Dietz, settled in the area in 1871 and was elected county sheriff in 1877. His father married Leanna Ginder in November 1879. Dietz was an employ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pullman, Washington
Pullman () is the largest city in Whitman County, located in southeastern Washington within the Palouse region of the Pacific Northwest. The population was 29,799 at the 2010 census, and estimated to be 34,506 in 2019. Originally founded as Three Forks, the city was renamed after industrialist George Pullman in 1884. Pullman is noted as a fertile agricultural area known for its many miles of rolling hills and the production of wheat and legumes. It is home to Washington State University, a public research land-grant university, and the international headquarters of Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories. Pullman is from Moscow, Idaho, home to the University of Idaho, and is served by the Pullman–Moscow Regional Airport. History In 1876, about five years after European-American settlers established Whitman County on November 29, 1871, Bolin Farr arrived in Pullman. He camped at the confluence of Dry Flat Creek and Missouri Flat Creek on the bank of the Palouse River. Within the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rose Bowl Champion Seasons
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Washington State Cougars Football Seasons
The following is a list of Washington State Cougars football seasons for the football team that has represented Washington State University in NCAA The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is a nonprofit organization that regulates student athletics among about 1,100 schools in the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico. It also organizes the athletic programs of colleges an ... competition. Seasons Accessed 2013-Aug-14. Notes References General * * Specific {{DEFAULTSORT:Washington State Cougars football seasons[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tournament Park
Tournament Park is a park and athletics venue in Pasadena, California, United States, northeast of Los Angeles. Currently maintained by the California Institute of Technology, it was simply known as the "town lot" before being renamed "Tournament Park" Tournament Park gets its name from the Tournament of Roses, and it served as a venue in the early 20th century for events associated with the Tournament, such as chariot races, ostrich races, and even a race between a camel and an elephant. Besides hosting Tournament of Roses events, the venue hosted other events at the turn of the 20th century, such as the Southern California Horse Show Association's annual horse show. Tournament Park is best known as the site of the first eight Rose Bowl Games Background Its seating capacity in 1922 was 43,000, many of which were in temporary wooden bleachers that the city deemed unsafe, thus necessitating the construction of the Rose Bowl stadium, about northwest. Tournament Park hosted a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spokane, Washington
Spokane ( ) is the largest city and county seat of Spokane County, Washington, United States. It is in eastern Washington, along the Spokane River, adjacent to the Selkirk Mountains, and west of the Rocky Mountain foothills, south of the Canada–United States border, Canadian border, west of the Washington–Idaho border, and east of Seattle, along Interstate 90 in Washington, I-90. Spokane is the economic and cultural center of the Spokane metropolitan area, the Spokane–Coeur d'Alene combined statistical area, and the Inland Northwest. It is known as the birthplace of Father's Day (United States), Father's Day, and locally by the nickname of "Lilac City". Officially, Spokane goes by the nickname of ''Hooptown USA'', due to Spokane annually hosting Spokane Hoopfest, the world's largest basketball tournament. The city and the wider Inland Northwest area are served by Spokane International Airport, west of Downtown Spokane. According to the 2010 United States census, 2010 ce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avista Stadium
Avista Stadium is a baseball park in the northwest United States, located in Spokane Valley, Washington. It is the home ballpark of the Spokane Indians, a minor league baseball team in the High-A Northwest League.History at spokaneindiansbaseball.com, URL accessed March 7, 2021 Archived 10/18/09 History Built in less than four months at the Interstate Fairgrounds, the stadium opened in 1958 and has a large for Class A ballpark. The facility was built for[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1915 Montana Football Team
The 1915 Montana football team represented the University of Montana in the 1915 college football season. They were led by first-year head coach Jerry Nissen, played their home games at Dornblaser Field, and finished the season with a record of 2–2–2. , University of Montana, 2010. Schedule * One game was played on Thursday (against Syracuse on )References Montana
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Battle Of The Palouse
The Battle of the Palouse refers to an athletic rivalry in the northwest United States, between the Vandals of the University of Idaho and Cougars of Washington State University. The two land-grant universities are less than apart on the rural Palouse in the Inland Northwest; Idaho's campus in Moscow is nearly on the Idaho–Washington border, and Washington State's campus is directly west in Pullman, linked by Washington State Route 270 and the Bill Chipman Palouse Trail. The two schools' most prominent rivalry was in football, but in later years it has shifted to men's basketball. Football Series history The first game was played in November 1894 and resulted in a win for Washington State. The game in 1898 was not played because Idaho had an ineligible ringer from Lapwai, David McFarland, a recent All-American from Carlisle. The Vandals' first-ever forward pass was attempted against the Cougars in 1907: it was completed for a touchdown from a drop-kick formation in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moscow, Idaho
Moscow ( ) is a city in North Central Idaho, United States. Located along the state border with Washington, it had a population of 25,435 at the 2020 census. The county seat and largest city of Latah County, Moscow is the home of the University of Idaho, the state's land-grant institution and primary research university. It is the principal city in the Moscow, Idaho Micropolitan Statistical Area, which includes all of Latah County. The city contains over 60% of the county's population, and while the university is Moscow's dominant employer, the city also serves as an agricultural and commercial hub for the Palouse region. Along with the rest of the Idaho Panhandle, Moscow is in the Pacific Time Zone. The elevation of its city center is above sea level. Two major highways serve the city, passing through the city center: US-95 (north-south) and ID-8 (east-west). The Pullman–Moscow Regional Airport, west, provides limited commercial air service. The local newspaper is the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MacLean Field
MacLean Field was an outdoor athletic stadium in the northwest United States, located on the campus of the University of Idaho in Moscow, Idaho. The venue opened in 1914 and closed in 1966; its uses included football, baseball, track, and military drill. Directly west of the Administration Building, it originally extended west to Primary seating at MacLean was in the wooden grandstand along its east bank; the Memorial Gymnasium (1928) was to the northwest and the Shattuck Arboretum bounded it on It was named for James MacLean, the university president from 1900 to 1913, and the approximate elevation is above Multi-sport MacLean's football field was conventionally oriented north-south, with the west sideline approximately aligned with the Memorial Gym's In its early years, the grandstand on the east berm had limited seating, between the 40-yard-lines. By the late 1920s, permanent seating extended to the end zones and the west sideline had temporary seating along much ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1915 Idaho Football Team
The 1915 Idaho football team represented the University of Idaho in the 1915 college football season. Idaho was led by first-year head coach Charles Rademacher and played as an independent; they joined the Pacific Coast Conference seven years later Idaho had two home games in Moscow on campus at MacLean Field, with none in Boise. In the season opener, Idaho fell to Montana for the first time in the series' third meeting, losing Idaho dropped a second consecutive shutout to Washington State in the Battle of the Palouse, falling Eight years later, the Vandals won the first of three consecutive, their only three-peat in the rivalry series. Idaho opened the season with four losses, then won and tied a game for a record. They scored just nine points all season, and the only touchdown was an interception return, which defeated . Their only points on offense came on a drop-kick field goal in the first quarter of the opener at Montana. A fatality occurred at practice ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
