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1939 George Washington Colonials Football Team ...
The 1939 George Washington Colonials football team was an American football team that represented George Washington University as an independent during the 1939 college football season. In its second season under head coach William Reinhart, the team compiled a 5–3 record and outscored opponents by a total of 78 to 53. Schedule References {{George Washington Colonials football navbox George Washington George Washington Colonials football seasons George Washington Colonials football The George Washington Colonials football team represented George Washington University of Washington, D.C. in college football competition from 1881 to 1966. The team's home field in the final six seasons was District of Columbia Stadium, shared ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Reinhart
William J. Reinhart (August 2, 1896 – February 14, 1971) was an American college basketball, football, and baseball coach at the George Washington University, the University of Oregon, and the United States Merchant Marine Academy. From 1923 to 1935, he served as the head basketball coach at Oregon. He is the school's second-winningest coach with 180 victories. His record through 13 seasons at Oregon was 180–101. He suffered only one losing season. Largely due to his success, Oregon was forced to build McArthur Court to accommodate the large crowds that became fixtures for Ducks games on his watch. At George Washington, he compiled a 319–237 record in basketball, or .574 winning percentage, including a 23–3 season in 1953–54. His teams twice made the NCAA tournament, in 1954 and 1961, George Washington's only trips to the NCAA Tournament until Mike Jarvis's team in 1993. Players he coached at George Washington included future Basketball Hall of Famer Red Auerbach and fu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1939 Clemson Tigers Football Team
The 1939 Clemson Tigers football team was an American football team that represented Clemson College in the Southern Conference during the 1939 college football season. In their ninth and final season under head coach Jess Neely, the Tigers compiled a 9–1 record, outscored opponents by a total of 165 to 40, and defeated Boston College in the 1940 Cotton Bowl Classic. The 1940 Cotton Bowl was Clemson's first bowl game. Joe Payne was the team captain. The team's statistical leaders included tailback Banks McFadden with 581 passing yards, fullback Charlie Timmons with 556 rushing yards, and wingback Shad Bryant with 32 points scored (4 touchdowns, 8 extra points). McFadden remained with Clemson for more than 40 years as a coach and administrator and was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1959. Five Clemson players were named to the All-Southern team: tailback Banks McFadden; wingback Shad Bryant; center Bob Sharpe; end Joe Blalock; and tackle George Fritts.Clemson ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morgantown, West Virginia
Morgantown is a city in and the county seat of Monongalia County, West Virginia, Monongalia County, West Virginia, United States, situated along the Monongahela River. The largest city in North-Central West Virginia, Morgantown is best known as the home of West Virginia University. The population was 30,712 at the 2020 U.S. Census, 2020 census. The city serves as the anchor of the Morgantown metropolitan area, which had a population of 138,176 in 2020. History Morgantown's history is closely tied to the Anglo-French struggle for this territory. Until the Treaty of Paris (1763), Treaty of Paris in 1763, what is now known as Morgantown was greatly contested by white settlers and Native Americans in the United States, Native Americans, and by British and French soldiers. The treaty decided the issue in favor of the British, but Indian fighting continued almost to the beginning of the American Revolutionary War in 1775. Zackquill Morgan and David Morgan (frontiersman), David Morgan, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mountaineer Field (1924)
Mountaineer Field, known as the "Jewel of the Mountains", was a football stadium located in downtown Morgantown, West Virginia. It was the home of the West Virginia Mountaineers football team. The stadium, which cost approximately $740,000 to build, was located down the hill from Woodburn Hall, and bordered by Campus Drive to the north, University Avenue to the east, Woodburn and Chitwood Halls to the south, and eventually Beechurst Avenue on the west. It was built into the natural valley of the area, and was a square-cornered horseshoe. The stadium opened on September 27, 1924 with a 21–6 win against West Virginia Wesleyan College West Virginia Wesleyan College is a private college in Buckhannon, West Virginia. It has an enrollment of about 1,400 students from 35 U.S. states and 26 countries. The school was founded in 1890 by the West Virginia Conference of the Methodist E .... It held 38,000 by the time it closed, after a 24–17 loss in the 1979 Backyard Brawl to arch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1939 West Virginia Mountaineers Football Team ...
The 1939 West Virginia Mountaineers football team was an American football team that represented West Virginia University as an independent during the 1939 college football season. In its third and final season under head coach Marshall Glenn, the team compiled a 2–6–1 record and was outscored by a total of 94 to 70. The team played its home games at Mountaineer Field in Morgantown, West Virginia. Albert Baisi and Harry Clarke were the team captains.2017 WVU Football Guide, p. 169. Schedule References {{West Virginia Mountaineers football navbox West Virginia West Virginia Mountaineers football seasons West Virginia Mountaineers football The West Virginia Mountaineers football team represents West Virginia University (also referred to as "WVU" or "West Virginia") in the NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) of college football. West Virginia plays its home games at Milan Puskar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1939 Bucknell Bison Football Team
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The 1939 Bucknell Bison football team was an American football team that represented Bucknell University as an independent during the 1939 college football season. In their third season under head coach Al Humphreys, the Bison compiled a 3–5 record and outscored opponents by a total of 88 to 64. Bucknell was ranked at No. 94 (out of 609 teams) in the final Litkenhous Ratings for 1939. The team played its home games at Memorial Stadium in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. Schedule References Bucknell Bucknell Bison football seasons Bucknell Bison football The Bucknell Bison football team represents Bucknell University in college football at the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (formerly Division I-AA) level. Bucknell is a member of the Patriot League. Bucknell won the first Or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lawrence, Kansas
Lawrence is the county seat of Douglas County, Kansas, Douglas County, Kansas, United States, and the sixth-largest city in the state. It is in the northeastern sector of the state, astride Interstate 70, between the Kansas River, Kansas and Wakarusa River, Wakarusa Rivers. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population of the city was 94,934. Lawrence is a college town and the home to both the University of Kansas and Haskell Indian Nations University. Lawrence was founded by the New England Emigrant Aid Company (NEEAC) and was named for Amos A. Lawrence, an abolitionist from Massachusetts, who offered financial aid and support for the settlement. Lawrence was central to the "Bleeding Kansas" period (1854–1861), and the site of the Wakarusa War (1855) and the Sacking of Lawrence (1856). During the American Civil War it was also the site of the Lawrence massacre (1863). Lawrence began as a center of Free-Stater (Kansas), free-state politics. Its economy diver ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium
David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium is a football stadium located in Lawrence, Kansas, on the campus of the University of Kansas. The stadium was opened in 1921, and is the seventh oldest college football stadium in the country, and is widely recognized as the oldest west of the Mississippi River. Nicknamed "The Booth", the stadium is dedicated as a memorial to Kansas students who died in World War I, and is one of seven major veteran's memorials on the campus. The stadium is at the center of all seven war memorials - adjacent to the stadium, further up the hill is a Korean War memorial honoring Kansas students who served, just a few hundred feet south of the stadium stands the University of Kansas World War II Memorial, the Kansas Memorial Campanile and Carillon, the University of Kansas Vietnam War Memorial sits adjacent to the Campanile to the west, the Victory Eagle - World War I statue located on Jayhawk Boulevard, southeast of the stadium, and the Kansas Memorial Union, a vet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1939 Kansas Jayhawks Football Team
The 1939 Kansas Jayhawks football team represented the University of Kansas in the Big Six Conference during the 1939 college football season. In their first season under head coach Gwinn Henry, the Jayhawks compiled a 2–6 record (1–4 against conference opponents), tied for fourth place in the conference, and were outscored by opponents by a combined total of 107 to 47.2017 Kansas Football Media Guide, p. 183. They played their home games at Memorial Stadium in Lawrence, Kansas. The team's statistical leaders included Ed Hall with 189 rushing yards, Ralph Miller with 261 passing yards, Jake Fry with 137 receiving yards, and Fry and Milt Sullivant with 12 points scored each. Sullivant was the team captain. Kansas was ranked at No. 109 (out of 609 teams) in the final Litkenhous Ratings for 1939. Schedule After the season NFL draft The following Jayhawk was selected in the National Football League draft following the season. References {{Kansas Jayhawks football navbox ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1939 Georgetown Hoyas Football Team
The 1939 Georgetown Hoyas football team was an American football team that represented Georgetown University as an independent during the 1939 college football season. In their eighth season under head coach Jack Hagerty, the Hoyas compiled a 7–0–1 record, shut out five of eight opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 109 to 22. The team was ranked No. 16 in the AP Poll of November 20 but dropped out of the final poll. Georgetown was not ranked in the final AP poll, but it was ranked at No. 40 in the 1939 Williamson System ratings. and at No. 42 in the Litkenhous Ratings. The team played its home games at Griffith Stadium in Washington, D.C. Schedule References {{Georgetown Hoyas football navbox Georgetown Georgetown Hoyas football seasons College football undefeated seasons Georgetown Hoyas football The Georgetown Hoyas football team represents Georgetown University in the Division I Football Championship Subdivision level of college football. Lik ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Griffith Stadium
Griffith Stadium stood in Washington, D.C., from 1911 to 1965, between Georgia Avenue and 5th Street (left field), and between W Street and Florida Avenue NW. The site was once home to a wooden baseball park. Built in 1891, it was called Boundary Field, or National Park after the team that played there: the Washington Senators/Nationals. It was destroyed by a fire in 1911. It was replaced by a steel and concrete structure, at first called National Park and then American League Park; it was renamed for Washington Senators owner Clark Griffith in 1923. The stadium was home to the American League Senators from 1911 through 1960, and to an expansion team of the same name for their first season in 1961. The venue hosted the All-Star Game in 1937 and 1956 and World Series games in 1924, 1925, and 1933. It served as home for the Negro league Homestead Grays during the 1940s, when it hosted the 1943 and 1944 Negro World Series. It was home to the Washington Redskins of the Nation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1939 The Citadel Bulldogs Football Team
The 1939 The Citadel Bulldogs football team represented The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina in the 1939 college football season. Tatum Gressette served as head coach for the eighth season. The Bulldogs played as members of the Southern Conference and played home games at Johnson Hagood Stadium Johnson Hagood Stadium, is an 11,500-seat football stadium, the home field of The Citadel Bulldogs football team, in Charleston, South Carolina, United States. The stadium is named in honor of Brigadier General Johnson Hagood, CSA, class of 18 .... Schedule NFL Draft selection References {{The Citadel Bulldogs football navbox Citadel Bulldogs The Citadel Bulldogs football seasons Citadel football ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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