1950 Bucknell Bison Football Team
The 1950 Bucknell Bison football team was an American football team that represented Bucknell University as an independent during the 1950 college football season. In its fourth season under head coach Harry Lawrence, the team compiled a 6–3 record. Richard D. Johnson and Arnold V. Pechulis were the team captains. The team played its home games at Memorial Stadium on the university campus in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. Schedule References {{Bucknell Bison football navbox 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 ...

Harry Lawrence (American Football)
Harry L. Lawrence ( – February 20, 1987) was an American football coach. He served as the head football coach at Bucknell University from 1947 to 1957, compiling a record of 45–51–1. Lawrence began his coaching career in 1934 at Baltimore City College, a high school in Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland. He was the head football coach at Baltimore City College from 1934 to 1941 and again in 1946, tallying a mark of 69–10–6. During World War II, he served an officer in the United States Navy with the Atlantic Fleet in the Caribbean, reaching the rank of lieutenant commander. Lawrence attended Baltimore Polytechnic Institute, where he starred in football. He then moved on to Western Maryland College—now known as McDaniel College, playing football as a Halfback (American football), halfback under head coach Dick Harlow. At Western Maryland, he also competing in basketball, baseball, lacrosse, and rifle. Lawrence resigned from his post at Bucknell in early 1958 to return to Balt ...
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Andy Kerr Stadium
Crown Field at Andy Kerr Stadium is a 10,221-seat multi-purpose stadium in Hamilton, New York, United States. It is the home of Colgate University's football and men's lacrosse teams. Colgate opened the stadium in 1939, originally as Colgate Athletic Field. Colgate's football teams – then known as the Red Raiders and competing at the highest level of NCAA play – were coached during the stadium's inaugural year by Andy Kerr, who led the team from 1929 to 1946. The stadium adopted the name Andy Kerr Stadium on "Andy Kerr Day" on September 17, 1966, before a crowd of 8,000. The 87-year-old former coach was on hand to greet well-wishers and witness a 34-0 Colgate football victory over Boston University. Parts of the stadium have also been named to honor Raider athletes and coaches. A permanent main grandstand on the east (home team) side of the stadium was dedicated in 1991 to Frederick H. Dunlap, 1970s-80s football head coach and athletic director. The seven-lane, 400-meter ru ...
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Wilmington, Delaware
Wilmington ( Lenape: ''Paxahakink /'' ''Pakehakink)'' is the largest city in the U.S. state of Delaware. The city was built on the site of Fort Christina, the first Swedish settlement in North America. It lies at the confluence of the Christina River and Brandywine Creek, near where the Christina flows into the Delaware River. It is the county seat of New Castle County and one of the major cities in the Delaware Valley metropolitan area. Wilmington was named by Proprietor Thomas Penn after his friend Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington, who was prime minister during the reign of George II of Great Britain. At the 2020 census, the city's population was 70,898. The Wilmington Metropolitan Division, comprising New Castle County, Delaware, Cecil County, Maryland and Salem County, New Jersey, had an estimated 2016 population of 719,887. Wilmington is part of the Delaware Valley metropolitan statistical area, which also includes Philadelphia, Reading, Camden, and other urban are ...
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Wilmington Park
Wilmington Park was a ballpark in Wilmington, Delaware that was located at the corner of 30th Street and Governor Printz Boulevard. It was home to the University of Delaware football team from 1940 to 1952 and the Wilmington Blue Rocks of the Class B Interstate League from 1940 to 1952. The Blue Rocks were an affiliate of the Philadelphia Athletics from 1940 to 1943 and the Philadelphia Phillies from 1944 to 1952. History Early in 1940, construction plans for the ballpark were announced. ilmington ''News-Journal'', Jan 23, 1940, p.20The park was bounded by 30th Street (northeast, third base); Governor Printz Boulevard a.k.a. Northeast Boulevard (southeast, left field); 28th Street (southwest, right field); and Church Street and eventually Kerry Drive-In Theater (to the northwest, first base). Dimensions for left and right field were reported as and respectively. The Wilmington Blue Rocks minor league baseball team played at the ballpark from 1940 to 1952. They opened the ...
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1950 Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens Football Team
The 1950 Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens football team was an American football team that represented the University of Delaware as an independent during the 1950 college football season. The team compiled a 2–5–1 record and was outscored by a total of 147 to 55. The team was led by William D. Murray in his eighth season as the program's head football coach. He also served as the school's athletic director. In January 1951, Murray was hired as the head football coach at Duke. Schedule References {{Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens football navbox Delaware Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens football seasons Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens football The Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens football team represents the University of Delaware in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) college football. The team is currently led by head coach ...

Philadelphia
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 ...
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Temple Stadium
Temple Stadium was a stadium in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It opened in 1928 and hosted the Temple University Owls football team until they moved to Veterans Stadium in 1978. It was located on a area in the West Oak Lane neighborhood of the city bounded by Cheltenham Avenue, Vernon Road, Michener Avenue, and Mt. Pleasant Avenue. The football stadium stood on one end of the site; the baseball and softball diamonds stood on the other. The football stadium had seating for approximately 20,000 people; mobile seating raised capacity to 34,200. Temple Stadium was horseshoe-shaped, with the open end facing west-northwest, and built into a natural bowl. It was also known as Owl Stadium and Beury Stadium, named for the school president responsible for its construction. Prior to the building of the stadium, Vernon Park, the park where the stadium was built, was the Owls' home for several years. History In 1924, Temple purchased at the site for $75,000 for physical education classes an ...
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1950 Temple Owls Football Team
The 1950 Temple Owls football team was an American football team that represented Temple University as an independent during the 1950 college football season. In its second season under head coach Albert Kawal, the team compiled a 4–4–1 record and outscored opponents by a total of 173 to 132. The team played its home games at Temple Stadium in Philadelphia. Schedule References {{Temple Owls football navbox Temple Temple Owls football seasons Temple Owls football The Temple Owls football team represents Temple University in the sport of college football. The Temple Owls compete in the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision as a member of the American Athletic Conference (The American). They play thei ...

Daily News (New York)
The New York ''Daily News'', officially titled the ''Daily News'', is an American newspaper based in Jersey City, NJ. It was founded in 1919 by Joseph Medill Patterson as the ''Illustrated Daily News''. It was the first U.S. daily printed in tabloid format. It reached its peak circulation in 1947, at 2.4 million copies a day. As of 2019 it was the eleventh-highest circulated newspaper in the United States. Today's ''Daily News'' is not connected to the earlier '' New York Daily News'', which shut down in 1906. The ''Daily News'' is owned by parent company Tribune Publishing. This company was acquired by Alden Global Capital, which operates its media properties through Digital First Media, in May 2021. After the Alden acquisition, alone among the newspapers acquired from Tribune Publishing, the ''Daily News'' property was spun off into a separate subsidiary called Daily News Enterprises. History ''Illustrated Daily News'' The ''Illustrated Daily News'' was founded by Patters ...
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1950 NYU Violets Football Team
The 1950 NYU Violets football team was an American football team that represented New York University as an independent during the 1950 college football season. In their first season under head coach Hugh Devore, the Violets compiled a 1–5–1 record, and were outscored 157–88. The team played one game in Manhattan, against crosstown rival Fordham at the Polo Grounds The Polo Grounds was the name of three stadiums in Upper Manhattan, New York City, used mainly for professional baseball and American football from 1880 through 1963. The original Polo Grounds, opened in 1876 and demolished in 1889, was built fo .... The rest of its schedule was on the road. NYU played no games at its on-campus home field, Ohio Field in University Heights, Bronx. Schedule References {{NYU Violets football navbox NYU NYU Violets football seasons NYU Violets football ...
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The Philadelphia Inquirer
''The Philadelphia Inquirer'' is a daily newspaper headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The newspaper's circulation is the largest in both the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the Delaware Valley metropolitan region of Southeastern Pennsylvania, South Jersey, Delaware, and the northern Eastern Shore of Maryland, and the 17th largest in the United States as of 2017. Founded on June 1, 1829 as ''The Pennsylvania Inquirer'', the newspaper is the third longest continuously operating daily newspaper in the nation. It has won 20 Pulitzer Prizes . ''The Inquirer'' first became a major newspaper during the American Civil War. The paper's circulation dropped after the Civil War's conclusion but then rose again by the end of the 19th century. Originally supportive of the Democratic Party, ''The Inquirers political orientation eventually shifted toward the Whig Party and then the Republican Party before officially becoming politically independent in the middle of the 20th cen ...
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1950 Lafayette Leopards Football Team
The 1950 Lafayette Leopards football team was an American football team that represented Lafayette College in the Middle Three Conference during the 1950 college football season. In its second season under head coach Maurice J. "Clipper" Smith, the team compiled a 1–8 record. Jay Barclay and Joseph Diamond were the team captains. The team played its home games at Fisher Field in Easton, Pennsylvania. Schedule References {{Lafayette Leopards football navbox Lafayette Lafayette Leopards football seasons Lafayette Leopards football The Lafayette Leopards football program represents Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania in college football. One of the oldest college football programs in the United States, Lafayette currently plays in the Patriot League at the NCAA Di ...