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1942 West Texas State Buffaloes Football Team
The 1942 West Texas State Buffaloes football team was an American football team that represented West Texas State College (now known as West Texas A&M University) in the Border Conference during the 1942 college football season. In its first season under head coach Gus Miller, the team compiled a 7–2 record (5–2 against conference opponents) and outscored all opponents by a total of 130 to 112. The team played its home games at Buffalo Stadium in Canyon, Texas. Schedule References {{West Texas A&M Buffaloes football navbox West Texas State West Texas A&M Buffaloes football seasons West Texas State Buffaloes football The West Texas A&M Buffaloes football program is the intercollegiate American football team for the West Texas A&M University located in the U.S. state of Texas. The team competes in Division II and are members of the Lone Star Conference. The s ...
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Border Conference
The Border Conference, officially known as the Border Intercollegiate Athletic Association, was an National Collegiate Athletic Association, NCAA-affiliated college athletic conference founded in 1931 that disbanded following the 1961–62 season. Centered in the southwestern United States, the conference included nine member institutions located in the states of Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas. History Chronological timeline * 1931 - The Border Conference (also known as the Border Intercollegiate Athletic Association) was founded. Charter members included the University of Arizona, Northern Arizona University, Arizona State Teachers College at Flagstaff (now Northern Arizona University), Arizona State University, Arizona State Teachers College at Tempe (now Arizona State University), the University of New Mexico and New Mexico State University, New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanical Arts (now New Mexico State University), effective beginning the 1931-32 academic year. * 1 ...
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Newspapers
A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background. Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, sports and art, and often include materials such as opinion columns, weather forecasts, reviews of local services, obituaries, birth notices, crosswords, editorial cartoons, comic strips, and advice columns. Most newspapers are businesses, and they pay their expenses with a mixture of subscription revenue, newsstand sales, and advertising revenue. The journalism organizations that publish newspapers are themselves often metonymically called newspapers. Newspapers have traditionally been published in print (usually on cheap, low-grade paper called newsprint). However, today most newspapers are also published on websites as online newspapers, and some have even abandoned their print versions entirely. Newspapers developed in the 17th ...
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1942 Border Conference Football Season
Year 194 ( CXCIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Septimius and Septimius (or, less frequently, year 947 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 194 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Emperor Septimius Severus and Decimus Clodius Septimius Albinus Caesar become Roman Consuls. * Battle of Issus: Septimius Severus marches with his army (12 legions) to Cilicia, and defeats Pescennius Niger, Roman governor of Syria. Pescennius retreats to Antioch, and is executed by Severus' troops. * Septimius Severus besieges Byzantium (194–196); the city walls suffer extensive damage. Asia * Battle of Yan Province: Warlords Cao Cao and Lü Bu fight for control over Yan Province; the battle lasts for over 100 days ...
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Albuquerque, New Mexico
Albuquerque ( ; ), ; kee, Arawageeki; tow, Vakêêke; zun, Alo:ke:k'ya; apj, Gołgéeki'yé. abbreviated ABQ, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of New Mexico. Its nicknames, The Duke City and Burque, both reference its founding in 1706 as ''La Villa de Alburquerque'' by Nuevo México governor Francisco Cuervo y Valdés''.'' Named in honor of the Viceroy of New Spain, the Francisco Fernández de la Cueva, 10th Duke of Alburquerque, 10th Duke of Alburquerque, the city was Old Town Albuquerque, an outpost on Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, El Camino Real linking Mexico City to the northernmost territories of New Spain. Located in the Albuquerque Basin, the city is flanked by the Sandia Mountains to the east and the West Mesa to the west, with the Rio Grande and bosque flowing from north-to-south. According to the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, Albuquerque had 564,559 residents, making it the List of United States cities by population, 32nd-most populous city ...
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1942 New Mexico Lobos Football Team
The 1942 New Mexico Lobos football team represented the University of New Mexico in the Border Conference during the 1942 college football season. In their first season under head coach Willis Barnes, the Lobos compiled a 4–5–2 record (3–4 against Border opponents), finished sixth in the conference, and were outscored by opponents by a total of 134 to 99. New Mexico was ranked at No. 162 (out of 590 college and military teams) in the final rankings under the Litkenhous Difference by Score System for 1942. Schedule References {{New Mexico Lobos football navbox New Mexico New Mexico Lobos football seasons New Mexico Lobos football The New Mexico Lobos football team is the intercollegiate football team at the University of New Mexico. The Lobos compete as a member of the Mountain West Conference. Their official colors are cherry and silver. The Lobos play their home games a ...
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1942 Hardin–Simmons Cowboys Football Team
The 1942 Hardin–Simmons Cowboys football team was an American football team that represented Hardin–Simmons University in the Border Conference during the 1942 college football season. The team compiled a 9–1–1 record (4–0–1 against conference opponents), tied with Texas Tech for the conference championship, lost its only game to the Second Air Force Bombers in the 1943 Sun Bowl, and outscored all opponents by a total of 254 to 71. Warren B. Woodson was in his second season as the team's head coach. Woodson went into the United States Navy at the end of the regular season, and assistant coach Clark Jarnagin took over as interim head coach for the Sun Bowl game. Backs Rudy Mobley and Camp Wilson Warren Camp Wilson (March 29, 1922 – March 22, 2001) was an American football player. He played college football at Tarleton Junior College (1941), Hardin–Simmons University (1942), and the University of Tulsa (1943–1945). He helped lead ... led the team on offen ...
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Las Cruces, New Mexico
Las Cruces (; "the crosses") is the second-largest city in the U.S. state of New Mexico and the seat of Doña Ana County. As of the 2020 census the population was 111,385. Las Cruces is the largest city in both Doña Ana County and southern New Mexico. The Las Cruces metropolitan area had an estimated population of 213,849 in 2017. It is the principal city of a metropolitan statistical area which encompasses all of Doña Ana County and is part of the larger El Paso–Las Cruces combined statistical area. Las Cruces is the economic and geographic center of the Mesilla Valley, the agricultural region on the floodplain of the Rio Grande which extends from Hatch to the west side of El Paso, Texas. Las Cruces is the home of New Mexico State University (NMSU), New Mexico's only land-grant university. The city's major employer is the federal government on nearby White Sands Test Facility and White Sands Missile Range. The Organ Mountains, to the east, are dominant in the city's lands ...
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1942 New Mexico A&M Aggies Football Team
The 1942 New Mexico A&M Aggies football team was an American football team that represented New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanical Arts (now known as New Mexico State University) as a member of the Border Conference during the 1942 college football season The 1942 college football season was the 74th season of intercollegiate football in the United States. Competition included schools from the Big Ten Conference, the Pacific Coast Conference (PCC), the Southeastern Conference (SEC), the Big Six C .... In its third and final year under head coach Julius H. Johnston, the team compiled a 1–8 record (0–6 against conference opponents), finished in last place in the conference, and was outscored by a total of 223 to 33. New Mexico A&M was ranked at No. 486 (out of 590 college and military teams) in the final rankings under the Litkenhous Difference by Score System for 1942. The team played its home games at Quesenberry Field in Las Cruces, New Mexico. Schedule ...
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1942 Texas Mines Miners Football Team
The 1942 Texas Mines Miners football team was an American football team that represented Texas School of Mines (now known as University of Texas at El Paso) as a member of the Border Conference during the 1942 college football season The 1942 college football season was the 74th season of intercollegiate football in the United States. Competition included schools from the Big Ten Conference, the Pacific Coast Conference (PCC), the Southeastern Conference (SEC), the Big Six C .... In its first and only season under head coach Walter Milner, the team compiled a 5–4 record (4–3 against Border Conference opponents), finished fifth in the conference, and outscored opponents by a total of 162 to 111. Texas Mines was ranked at No. 167 (out of 590 college and military teams) in the final rankings under the Litkenhous Difference by Score System for 1942. Schedule References Texas Mines UTEP Miners football seasons Texas Mines Miners football {{collegefootball-194 ...
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Flagstaff, Arizona
Flagstaff ( ) is a city in, and the county seat of, Coconino County, Arizona, Coconino County in northern Arizona, in the southwestern United States. In 2019, the city's estimated population was 75,038. Flagstaff's combined metropolitan area has an estimated population of 139,097. Flagstaff lies near the southwestern edge of the Colorado Plateau and within the San Francisco volcanic field, along the western side of the largest contiguous Pinus ponderosa, ponderosa pine forest in the continental United States. The city sits at about and is next to Mount Elden, just south of the San Francisco Peaks, the highest mountain range in the state of Arizona. Humphreys Peak, the highest point in Arizona at , is about north of Flagstaff in Kachina Peaks WildernessThe geology of the Flagstaff areaincludes abundant volcanic rocks associated with the San Francisco Volcanic Field that range in age from late Miocene to late Holocene. It also includes exposed rock from the Mesozoic and Paleozoic ...
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1942 Albuquerque Army Air Base Flying Kellys Football Team
The 1942 Albuquerque Army Air Base Base Flying Kellys football team, sometimes known as the Flying Colin Kellys, represented Albuquerque Army Air Base (Albuquerque AAB), located in Albuquerque, New Mexico, during the 1942 college football season. The Flying Kellys compiled a 5–4 record, not including an October 30 intra-squad game in which the starters defeated the substitutes. Captain Ted Shipkey (head coach at New Mexico before the war) was the head coach, and Ted Wright was the assistant coach. Wright served as acting head coach against Arizona State due to an injury to Shipkey. The team utilized the "accordion shuffle shift" offense that Shipkey had developed during his tenure as head coach with the New Mexico Lobos. The team was named after Colin Kelly, an Army aviator who was killed when his B-17 Flying Fortress was shot down in combat on December 10, 1941. The Air Base also adopted a New Mexico mountain burro as its mascot. Schedule Roster The players included the ...
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Gus Miller
William Augustus Miller (August 3, 1900 – February 16, 1992) was an American football and basketball coach and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Texas Wesleyan College—now known as Texas Wesleyan University—in Fort Worth, Texas from 1937 to 1941 and West Texas State Teachers College—now known as West Texas A&M University—in Canyon, Texas–from 1942 to 1946, compiling a career college football coaching record of 41–32–3. Miller was also the head basketball coach at Texas Wesleyan from 1947 to 1942 and West Texas State from 1942 to 1957, tallying a career college basketball coaching mark of 283–154. His basketball teams won three Border Conference championships and made an appearance in the 1955 NCAA basketball tournament. Miller coached at Trinidad High School in Trinidad, Colorado for 10 years before he was hired at Texas Wesleyan in 1937. Miller was born in Pine Grove, Texas Pine Grove is an unincorporated community ...
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