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1917 Kendall Orange And Black Football Team
The 1917 Kendall Orange and Black football team represented Henry Kendall College (later renamed the University of Tulsa) during the 1917 college football season. In their first and only year under head coach Hal Mefford Harry Lee "Hal" Mefford (June 18, 1882 – December 24, 1932) was an American football player, coach of football and basketball, and college athletics administrator. He played for the Chicago Maroons football team in 1905 and 1906 and was the firs ..., the Orange and Black compiled a 0–8–1 record and were outscored by their opponents by a combined total of 221 to 61. Schedule References Kendall Tulsa Golden Hurricane football seasons Kendall Orange and Black football {{collegefootball-1917-season-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oklahoma Intercollegiate Conference (1914–1928)
The Oklahoma Intercollegiate Conference was an intercollegiate athletic conference that existed from 1914 to 1928 and the first of two conferences to share this name. The conference's members were located in the state of Oklahoma.Oklahoma Intercollegiate Conference (1914-1928) , College Football Data Warehouse, retrieved October 27, 2015. Some of its teams subsequently joined the , which eventually evolved into the second iteration of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1917 Oklahoma A&M Aggies Football Team
The 1917 Oklahoma A&M Aggies football team represented Oklahoma A&M College in the 1917 college football season. This was the 17th year of football at A&M and the first under Earl A. Pritchard. The Aggies played their home games at Lewis Field in Stillwater, Oklahoma. They finished the season 4–5 and 1–2 in the Southwest Conference The Southwest Conference (SWC) was an NCAA Division I college athletic conference in the United States that existed from 1914 to 1996. Composed primarily of schools from Texas, at various times the conference included schools from Oklahoma an .... Schedule References Oklahoma AandM Oklahoma State Cowboys football seasons Oklahoma AandM {{collegefootball-1917-season-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1917 Oklahoma Intercollegiate Conference Football Season
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Norman, Oklahoma
Norman () is the third-largest city in the U.S. state of Oklahoma, with a population of 128,097 as of 2021. It is the largest city and the county seat of Cleveland County, Oklahoma, Cleveland County, and the second-largest city in the Oklahoma City metropolitan area, behind the state capital, Oklahoma City. It is 20 miles (32 kilometers) south of OKC, OK, OKC. Norman was settled during the Land Run of 1889, which opened the former Unassigned Lands of Indian Territory to American pioneer settlement. The city was named in honor of Abner Norman, the area's initial land surveyor, and was formally incorporated on , 1891. Norman has prominent higher education and related research industries, as it is home to the University of Oklahoma, the largest university in the state, with nearly 32,000 students. The university is well known for its sporting events by teams under the banner of the nickname Oklahoma Sooners, "Sooners," with over 85,000 people routinely attending American football, f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boyd Field
Boyd Field was a stadium in Norman, Oklahoma that hosted the University of Oklahoma Sooners football team from 1905 until they moved to Oklahoma Memorial Stadium in 1923. The stadium held 11,000 people at its peak and was opened in 1905. The stadium was named after former university president, David Ross Boyd David Ross Boyd (July 31, 1853 – November 17, 1936) was an American educator and the first president of the University of Oklahoma. Boyd was born in Coshocton, Ohio, and obtained a doctorate degree from the small College of Wooster, where he w .... References External links Stadium information Defunct college football venues Oklahoma Sooners football University of Oklahoma campus Defunct sports venues in Oklahoma {{Oklahoma-sports-venue-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1917 Oklahoma Sooners Football Team ...
The 1917 Oklahoma Sooners football team represented the University of Oklahoma in the 1917 college football season. In their 13th year under head coach Bennie Owen, the Sooners compiled a 6–4–1 record (1–1–1 against conference opponents), and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 451 to 103. No Sooners were recognized as All-Americans. Two Sooner received All-Southwest Conference honors: Walt Abbott and W.E. Durant. Schedule References {{Oklahoma Sooners football navbox Oklahoma Oklahoma Sooners football seasons Oklahoma Sooners football The Oklahoma Sooners football program is a college football team that represents the University of Oklahoma (variously "Oklahoma" or "OU"). The team is a member of the Big 12 Conference, which is in Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (forme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oklahoma State–Tulsa Football Rivalry
The Oklahoma State–Tulsa football rivalry is a college football college rivalry, rivalry game between Oklahoma State Cowboys football, Oklahoma State and Tulsa Golden Hurricane football, Tulsa. The two teams first played each other in 1914, and the rivalry has been played on and off for a total of 75 games as of 2021. Series history From 1935 to 1956, the two teams both competed in the Missouri Valley Conference football, Missouri Valley Conference. In those 22 seasons, the conference champion would be won by either Oklahoma State or Tulsa 16 times.Missouri Valley Conference Champions They played each other annually from 1926 to 1965. Then played again regularly from 1981 to 2000. The two universities are approximately 70 miles apart via the Cimarron Turnpike. In 1992, the ''Tulsa World'' reported t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stillwater, Oklahoma
Stillwater ( iow, Ñápinⁿje, ''meaning: "Water quiet"'') is a city in, and the county seat of, Payne County, Oklahoma, United States. It is located in north-central Oklahoma at the intersection of U.S. Route 177 and State Highway 51. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 45,688, making it the tenth-largest city in Oklahoma. The Stillwater Micropolitan Statistical Area had a population of 78,399 according to the 2012 census estimate. Stillwater was part of the first Oklahoma Land Run held on April 22, 1889, when the Unassigned Lands were opened for settlement and became the core of the new Oklahoma Territory. The city charter was adopted on August 24, 1889, and operates under a council-manager government system. Stillwater has a diverse economy with a foundation in aerospace, agribusiness, biotechnology, optoelectronics, printing and publishing, and software and standard manufacturing. Stillwater is home to the main campus of Oklahoma State University (the city's lar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boone Pickens Stadium
Boone Pickens Stadium (previously known as Lewis Field) has been home to the Oklahoma State University Cowboys football team in rudimentary form since 1919, and as a complete stadium since 1920. Aligned in an east-west direction since 1920, the field is the oldest in the Big 12 Conference. With the resurgence of Cowboy football, sparked by the 2001 victory over the Oklahoma Sooners in the annual Bedlam Series game and the subsequent 2002 Houston Bowl season, interest grew for a major overhaul of Lewis Field. An ambitious fund-raising project for the renovation dubbed "The Next Level" became the flagship effort of the Oklahoma State athletic department. The stadium has a capacity of 55,509. The "Lewis Field" era Oklahoma State, then known as Oklahoma A&M, first began playing at what would become the original Lewis Field in 1901. Located just north of Morrill Hall and originally known simply as "Athletic Field," it was renamed Lewis Field in 1914 after Lowery Laymon Lewis, a f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1917 Denver Pioneers Football Team
The 1917 Denver Ministers football team represented the University of Denver as a member of the Rocky Mountain Conference (RMC) during the 1917 college football season. In their third season under head coach John Fike, the Ministers compiled a perfect 9–0 record (6–0 against conference opponents), shared the RMC championship with Utah Agricultural, and outscored opponents by a total of 226 to 45. At the end of the season, both Denver and Utah Agricultural were undefeated against RMC opponents. A game between the two teams was proposed to determine an undisputed conference champion, but Denver's faculty ruled against the game. Denver officials claimed the title and asserted that the Utah Aggies "have a right to claim nothing more than a tie for the honors." The 1917 team compiled the only perfect season in the program's history. Schedule References {{Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference football champions Denver Denver () is a consolidated city and county, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hal Mefford
Harry Lee "Hal" Mefford (June 18, 1882 – December 24, 1932) was an American football player, coach of football and basketball, and college athletics administrator. He played for the Chicago Maroons football team in 1905 and 1906 and was the first athletic director of the Rose Polytechnic Institute in Terre Haute, Indiana. He was the head football coach for the Tulsa Golden Hurricane football, Kendall Orange and Black football team during the 1917 Kendall Orange and Black football team, 1917 season. In his only season as the head coach, the Orange and Black compiled a 0–8–1 record and were outscored by their opponents by a combined total of 221 to 61. Head coaching record Football Basketball References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Mefford, Hal 1882 births 1932 deaths American football ends American football halfbacks Chicago Maroons football players Rose–Hulman Fightin' Engineers athletic directors Rose–Hulman Fightin' Engineers football coac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fort Riley, Kansas
Fort Riley is a United States Army installation located in North Central Kansas, on the Kansas River, also known as the Kaw, between Junction City and Manhattan. The Fort Riley Military Reservation covers 101,733 acres (41,170 ha) in Geary and Riley counties. The portion of the fort that contains housing development is part of the Fort Riley census-designated place, with a residential population of 7,761 as of the 2010 census. The fort has a daytime population of nearly 25,000. The ZIP Code is 66442. Namesake Fort Riley is named in honor of Major General Bennet C. Riley, who led the first military escort along the Santa Fe Trail. The fort was established in 1853 as a military post to protect the movement of people and trade over the Oregon, California, and Santa Fe trails. In the years after the Civil War, Fort Riley served as a major United States Cavalry post and school for cavalry tactics and practice. The post was a base for skirmishes with Native Americans after ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
