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1925 New York Giants Season
The New York Giants season was the franchise's inaugural season in the National Football League. The team finished with a record of 8–4 against league opponents. Schedule * Games in ''italics'' are against non-NFL teams. Game Summaries NFL contests only; summaries for games against non-league teams are unavailable. Week 4: at Providence Steam Roller Week 5, Game 1: at Frankford Yellow Jackets Week 5, Game 2: vs. Frankford Yellow Jackets Week 7: vs. Cleveland Bulldogs Week 8, Game 1: vs. Buffalo Bisons Week 8, Game 2: vs. Columbus Tigers Week 9, Game 1: vs. Rochester Jeffersons Week 9, Game 2: vs. Providence Steam Roller Week 10: vs. Kansas City Cowboys Week 11: vs. Dayton Triangles Week 12: vs. Chicago Bears Week 13: at Chicago Bears Standings See also *List of New York Giants seasons External links 1925 New York Giants season at Pro Football Reference {{1925 NFL season by team New York Giants seasons New York Giants The New York Gia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Francisco Giants
The San Francisco Giants are an American professional baseball team based in San Francisco, California. The Giants compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (NL) West division. Founded in 1883 as the New York Gothams, and renamed three years later the New York Giants, the team eventually moved from New York City to San Francisco in 1958. The franchise is one of the oldest and most successful in professional baseball, with more wins than any team in the history of major American sports. The team was the first major-league organization based in New York City, most memorably playing home games at several iterations of the Polo Grounds. The Giants have played in the World Series 20 times. In 2014, the Giants won their then-record 23rd National League pennant; this mark has since been equaled and then eclipsed by the rival Dodgers, who as of 2022 lay claim to 24 NL crowns. The Giants' eight World Series championships are second-most in the NL ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1925 Kansas City Cowboys Season
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The 1925 Kansas City Cowboys season was their second in the league and first as the Cowboys. The team improved on their previous output of 2–7, losing only five games. They finished thirteenth in the league. Schedule Standings References Kansas City Cowboys seasons Kansas City Cowboys Kansas City The Kansas City metropolitan area is a bi-state metropolitan area anchored by Kansas City, Missouri. Its 14 counties straddle the border between the U.S. states of Missouri (9 counties) and Kansas (5 counties). With and a population of more ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guy Chamberlin
Berlin Guy "Champ" Chamberlin (January 16, 1894 – April 4, 1967), sometimes misspelled Guy Chamberlain, was an American football player and coach. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1962 and the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1965. He was also named in 1969 to the National Football League 1920s All-Decade Team, NFL 1920s All-Decade Team. A native of Blue Springs, Nebraska, Chamberlin played college football as a Halfback (gridiron football), halfback at Nebraska Wesleyan University in 1911 and 1912. He transferred to the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, University of Nebraska in 1913 and played at the halfback and End (gridiron football), end positions for the undefeated 1914 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, 1914 and 1915 Nebraska Cornhuskers football teams that won consecutive Missouri Valley Conference championships. He was a consensus first-team All-American in 1915, and he was selected in 1936 as the greatest player in Nebraska football history. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, often called Philly, is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the sixth-largest city in the U.S., the second-largest city in both the Northeast megalopolis and Mid-Atlantic regions after New York City. Since 1854, the city has been coextensive with Philadelphia County, the most populous county in Pennsylvania and the urban core of the Delaware Valley, the nation's seventh-largest and one of world's largest metropolitan regions, with 6.245 million residents . The city's population at the 2020 census was 1,603,797, and over 56 million people live within of Philadelphia. Philadelphia was founded in 1682 by William Penn, an English Quaker. The city served as capital of the Pennsylvania Colony during the British colonial era and went on to play a historic and vital role as the central meeting place for the nation's founding fathers whose plans and actions in Philadelphia ultimately inspired the American Revolution and the nation's inde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cy Wentworth
Marvin Palmer Morris "Cyclone, Cy" Wentworth (January 24, 1904 – October 10, 1982) was a Canadian hockey player. He played in the National Hockey League between 1927 and 1940 with the Chicago Black Hawks, Montreal Maroons, and Montreal Canadiens. He won the Stanley Cup with the Maroons in 1935. Playing career In 1926, Wentworth became a professional player with Eddie Livingstone's Chicago Cardinals, a new team in the American Hockey Association (AHA) which intended to rival the NHL. Under pressure from the NHL, the team folded in March 1921. Wentworth would sign with the Chicago Black Hawks. In 1931–32, Wentworth, who had become the picture of defensive efficiency, was named the team's captain. Near the beginning of the 1932–33 season, he was traded to the Montreal Maroons. In Montreal, Cy won his first and only Stanley Cup when his Maroons defeated Toronto in the 1935 finals after eliminating his old teammates from Chicago. Wentworth was Montreal's leading point-getter i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dutch Connor
Stafford Joseph "Dutch" Connor (April 16, 1895 – November 24, 1978) was an American football player and coach of football and basketball. He played professionally in the National Football League (NFL) with the Providence Steam Roller in 1925 and the Brooklyn Lions in 1926. Connor served as the head football coach at Norwich University from in 1931. He was also the head men's basketball coach at Brooklyn College during the 1935–36 season. Prior to his professional career, Connor played college football at New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts in Durham, New Hampshire, for the 1918 through 1921 seasons. The school became the University of New Hampshire in 1923, with its football team later known as the New Hampshire Wildcats. Connor was captain of the 1921 team. He was an inaugural member of the UNH Wildcats Hall of Fame in 1982. During World War II, Connor served in the United States Navy from February 1943 through November 1945. Before enlisting in the N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franny Garvey
Franny is a given name. It is generally a masculine name used as a nickname for Francis. The feminine form is Frannie. Notable people with the name include: * Franny Armstrong (born 1972), British documentary film director * Franny Beecher (1921–2014), American guitarist * Franny Billingsley (born 1954), American children's fantasy novelist * Franny Firth (born 1956), English footballer * Franny Griffiths (born 1966), English keyboardist, producer and remixer * Franny Moyle (born 1964), British television producer and author * Franny Murray (1915–1998), American football halfback and punter * Franny Powell (born 1977), English footballer See also * ''The Benefactor'' (2015 film), 2015 American drama film with the working title ''Franny'' * ''Franny'', a short story from ''Franny and Zooey ''Franny ''and'' Zooey'' is a book by American author J. D. Salinger which comprises his short story "Franny" and novella ''Zooey'' . The two works were published together as a book in 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Providence, Rhode Island
Providence is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Rhode Island. One of the oldest cities in New England, it was founded in 1636 by Roger Williams, a Reformed Baptist theologian and religious exile from the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He named the area in honor of "God's merciful Providence" which he believed was responsible for revealing such a haven for him and his followers. The city developed as a busy port as it is situated at the mouth of the Providence River in Providence County, at the head of Narragansett Bay. Providence was one of the first cities in the country to industrialize and became noted for its textile manufacturing and subsequent machine tool, jewelry, and silverware industries. Today, the city of Providence is home to eight hospitals and List of colleges and universities in Rhode Island#Institutions, eight institutions of higher learning which have shifted the city's economy into service industries, though it still retains some manufacturin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coral Gables, Florida
Coral Gables, officially City of Coral Gables, is a city in Miami-Dade County, Florida. The city is located southwest of Downtown Miami. As of the 2020 U.S. census, it had a population of 49,248. Coral Gables is known globally as home to the University of Miami, one of the nation's top private research universities whose main campus spans in the city. With 16,479 faculty and staff as of 2021, the University of Miami is the largest employer in Coral Gables and second largest employer in all of Miami-Dade County. The city is a Mediterranean-themed planned community known for its historic and affluent character reinforced by its strict zoning, popular landmarks, and tourist sights. History Coral Gables was formally incorporated as a city on April 29, 1925. It was and remains a planned community based on the popular early twentieth century City Beautiful Movement and is known for its strict zoning regulations. The city was developed by George Merrick, a real estate developer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palm Beach, Florida
Palm Beach is an incorporated town in Palm Beach County, Florida. Located on a barrier island in east-central Palm Beach County, the town is separated from several nearby cities including West Palm Beach and Lake Worth Beach by the Intracoastal Waterway to its west, though Palm Beach borders a small section of the latter and South Palm Beach at its southern boundaries. As of the 2020 census, Palm Beach had a year-round population of 9,245, an increase from 8,348 people in the 2010 census. Further, around 25,000 people reside in the town between November and April. The Jaega arrived on the modern-day island of Palm Beach approximately 3,000 years ago. Later, white settlers reached the area as early as 1872, and opened a post office about five years later. Elisha Newton "Cap" Dimick, later the town's first mayor, established Palm Beach's first hotel, the Cocoanut Grove House, in 1880, but Standard Oil tycoon Henry Flagler became instrumental in transforming t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wrigley Field
Wrigley Field is a Major League Baseball (MLB) stadium on the North Side of Chicago, Illinois. It is the home of the Chicago Cubs, one of the city's two MLB franchises. It first opened in 1914 as Weeghman Park for Charles Weeghman's Chicago Whales of the Federal League, which folded after the 1915 baseball season. The Cubs played their first home game at the park on April 20, 1916, defeating the Cincinnati Reds 7–6 in 11 innings. Chewing gum magnate William Wrigley Jr. of the Wrigley Company acquired the Cubs in 1921. It was named Cubs Park from 1920 to 1926, before being renamed Wrigley Field in 1927. The current seating capacity is 41,649. It is actually the second stadium to be named Wrigley Field, as a Los Angeles ballpark with the same name opened in 1925. In the North Side community area of Lakeview in the Wrigleyville neighborhood, Wrigley Field is on an irregular block bounded by Clark and Addison streets to the west and south, and Waveland and Sheffield ave ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1925 Chicago Bears Season
The 1925 Chicago Bears season was their sixth regular season completed in the National Football League. The team was unable to improve on their 6–1–4 record from 1924 and finished with a 9–5–3 record under head coach George Halas earning them a seventh-place finish in the team standings, their worst showing to that date. However, the 1925 Bears were the most notable team in the young NFL's history to that point all because of the addition of college players, including Red Grange. Season recap The Bears started slow, just like in 1924, opening the season with two ties and a loss to Green Bay (the Packers' first win ever over the Bears). The Bears regrouped, however, and won 6 of their next 7. During the fall, Bears owners George Halas and Edward Sternaman reached an agreement with C. C. Pyle to sign Illinois Fighting Illini football star Red Grange, a deal that included organizing a barnstorming tour that spanned 19 games and 67 days. As part of their agreement, the Bea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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