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1969 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets Football Team
The 1969 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team represented the Georgia Institute of Technology in the 1969 NCAA University Division football season. The Yellow Jackets were led by third-year head coach Bud Carson and played their home games at Grant Field in Atlanta. Schedule . p. 172 References Georgia Tech Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football seasons |
Bud Carson
Leon H. "Bud" Carson (April 28, 1930 – December 7, 2005) was an American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at the Georgia Institute of Technology from 1967 to 1971, compiling a record of 27–27. Carson then coached in the National Football League (NFL), mostly as a defensive coordinator. He was a member of two Super Bowl-winning teams with the Pittsburgh Steelers and one losing team with the LA Rams in the 1970s. Carson served as the head coach of the Cleveland Browns from 1989 until he was fired midway through the 1990 season. He is credited with developing the Steel Curtain. Player Carson played defensive back for North Carolina from 1949 to 1951, then entered the Marines. Coach His first coaching job was at Scottdale High School in Southwestern Pennsylvania which he began in 1955. Georgia Tech After his discharge from the Marines, he went into coaching, working at Georgia Tech under head coach Bobby Dodd. Carson took over as head coach in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1969 USC Trojans Football Team
The 1969 USC Trojans football team represented the University of Southern California (USC) in the 1969 NCAA University Division football season. In their tenth year under head coach John McKay, the Trojans compiled a 10–0–1 record (6–0 against conference opponents), won the Pacific-8 Conference (Pac-8) championship, defeated Michigan in the Rose Bowl, and outscored their opponents 261 to 128. The team was ranked third in the final AP Poll and fourth in the final Coaches Poll. Jim Jones led the team in passing, completing 88 of 210 passes for 1,230 yards with 13 touchdowns and 10 interceptions. Clarence Davis led the team in rushing with 297 carries for 1,357 yards and nine touchdowns. Sam Dickerson led the team in receiving with 24 catches for 473 yards and six touchdowns. Schedule Rankings Game summaries UCLA Roster : References {{Pac-12 Conference football champions USC USC most often refers to: * University of South Carolina, a public rese ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1969 NCAA University Division Independents Football Season
This year is notable for Apollo 11's first landing on the moon. Events January * January 4 – The Government of Spain hands over Ifni to Morocco. * January 5 **Ariana Afghan Airlines Flight 701 crashes into a house on its approach to London's Gatwick Airport, killing 50 of the 62 people on board and two of the home's occupants. * January 14 – An explosion aboard the aircraft carrier USS ''Enterprise'' near Hawaii kills 27 and injures 314. * January 19 – End of the siege of the University of Tokyo, marking the beginning of the end for the 1968–69 Japanese university protests. * January 20 – Richard Nixon is sworn in as the 37th President of the United States. * January 22 – An assassination attempt is carried out on Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev by deserter Viktor Ilyin. One person is killed, several are injured. Brezhnev escaped unharmed. * January 27 ** Fourteen men, 9 of them Jews, are executed in Baghdad for spying for Israel. ** Revere ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clean, Old-Fashioned Hate
Clean, Old-Fashioned Hate is an American college football rivalry between the Georgia Bulldogs and the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets. The two Southern universities are located in the U.S. state of Georgia and are separated by . They have been heated rivals since 1893. More recently, the rivalry is more one sided with fewer and fewer Georgia fans considering Georgia Tech a rival each year as a result of Georgia Tech’s few wins (3) in the series over the last two decades. The sports rivalry between the two institutions has traditionally focused on football, a sport in which both programs have historically been successful, with an annual game often held on Thanksgiving weekend. However, they compete in a variety of other intercollegiate sports, as well as competing for government and private funding, potential students, and academic recognition regionally and nationally. The University of Georgia (commonly referred to as UGA, or Georgia) is located in the college town of Athens, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1969 Georgia Bulldogs Football Team
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The 1969 Georgia Bulldogs football team had represented the Georgia Bulldogs of the University of Georgia during the 1969 NCAA University Division football season. Some of the more prominent players for the Bulldog were Jake Scott, Mike Cavan, Tommy Lyons, and Spike Jones. Schedule *Source: 1970 Georgia Bulldogs Football Media Guide/Yearbook Roster References Georgia Georgia Bulldogs football seasons Georgia Bulldogs football The Georgia Bulldogs football program represents the University of Georgia in the sport of American football. The Bulldogs compete in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and the Eastern Div ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ESPN College Football On ABC
''ESPN College Football on ABC'' is the branding used for broadcasts of National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) college football games that are produced by ESPN, and televised on ABC in the United States. Originally ''College Football on ABC'', the ESPN branding has been used since 2006 when parent company Disney merged the ABC Sports division into ESPN Inc. ABC first began broadcasting regular season college football games in 1950 and has aired them on an annual basis since 1966. The network features games from The American, Atlantic Coast, Big Ten, Big 12, and Pac-12 conferences. In addition, ESPN also produces a separate prime time regular-season game package for ABC, under the umbrella brand '' Saturday Night Football''. History 1950s By 1950, a small number of prominent football colleges, including the University of Pennsylvania (ABC) and the University of Notre Dame ( DuMont Television Network ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1969 Notre Dame Fighting Irish Football Team
The 1969 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team represented the University of Notre Dame during the 1969 NCAA University Division football season. The Fighting Irish were led by sixth-year head coach Ara Parseghian and played their home games on campus at Notre Dame Stadium. After 44 seasons without postseason play (1925–1968), the school ended its self-imposed bowl hiatus. With an regular season record, the Irish were led on the field by junior quarterback Joe Theismann. They met top-ranked Texas in the Cotton Bowl in Dallas Dallas () is the List of municipalities in Texas, third largest city in Texas and the largest city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the List of metropolitan statistical areas, fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States at 7.5 ... on New Year's Day, but lost 21–17 when the Longhorns scored a late touchdown. Schedule Roster Game summaries Northwestern Purdue Michigan State ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Orleans
New Orleans ( , ,New Orleans Merriam-Webster. ; french: La Nouvelle-Orléans , es, Nueva Orleans) is a Consolidated city-county, consolidated city-parish located along the Mississippi River in the southeastern region of the U.S. state of Louisiana. With a population of 383,997 according to the 2020 U.S. census, it is the List of municipalities in Louisiana, most populous city in Louisiana and the twelfth-most populous city in the southeastern United States. Serving as a List of ports in the United States, major port, New Orleans is considered an economic and commercial hub for the broader Gulf Coast of the United States, Gulf Coast region of the United States. New Orleans is world-renowned for its Music of New Orleans, distinctive music, Louisiana Creole cuisine, Creole cuisine, New Orleans English, uniq ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tulane Stadium
Tulane Stadium was an outdoor football stadium that stood in New Orleans from 1926 to 1980. It was officially the Third Tulane Stadium and replaced the "Second Tulane Stadium", which was located where the Telephone Exchange Building is now. The former site is currently bound by Willow Street to the south, Ben Weiner Drive to the east, the Tulane University property line west of McAlister Place, and the Hertz Basketball/Volleyball Practice Facility and the Green Wave's current home, Yulman Stadium, to the north. The stadium hosted three of the first nine Super Bowls, in 1970, 1972, and 1975. History Opening The stadium was opened in 1926 with a seating capacity of roughly 35,000—the lower level of the final configuration's sideline seats. Tulane Stadium was built on Tulane University's campus (before 1871, Tulane's campus was a backwoods portion of Paul Foucher's property, where on a plantation closer to the river, Foucher's father-in-law, Étienne de Boré, had first granul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1969 Tulane Green Wave Football Team
The 1969 Tulane Green Wave football team was an American football team that represented Tulane University during the 1969 NCAA University Division football season as an independent. In their fourth year under head coach Jim Pittman James Noel Pittman (August 28, 1925 – October 30, 1971) was a college football coach at Tulane University and Texas Christian University. Career A native of Boyle, Mississippi, Pittman played at Mississippi State University. From 1966 to 197 ..., the team compiled a 3–7 record. Schedule References Tulane Tulane Green Wave football seasons Tulane Green Wave football {{collegefootball-1960s-season-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raleigh, North Carolina
Raleigh (; ) is the capital city of the state of North Carolina and the List of North Carolina county seats, seat of Wake County, North Carolina, Wake County in the United States. It is the List of municipalities in North Carolina, second-most populous city in North Carolina, after Charlotte, North Carolina, Charlotte. Raleigh is the tenth-most populous city in the Southeastern United States, Southeast, List of United States cities by population, the 41st-most populous city in the U.S., and the largest city of the Research Triangle metro area. Raleigh is known as the "City of Oaks" for its many oak, oak trees, which line the streets in the heart of the city. The city covers a land area of . The United States Census Bureau, U.S. Census Bureau counted the city's population as 474,069 in the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. It is one of the fastest-growing cities in the United States. The city of Raleigh is named after Sir Walter Raleigh, who established the lost Roanoke Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The News & Observer
''The News & Observer'' is an American regional daily newspaper that serves the greater Triangle area based in Raleigh, North Carolina. The paper is the largest in circulation in the state (second is the '' Charlotte Observer''). The paper has been awarded three Pulitzer Prizes; the most recent of which was in 1996 for a series on the health and environmental impact of North Carolina's booming hog industry. The paper was one of the first in the world to launch an online version of the publication, Nando.net in 1994. Ownership On May 17, 1995 the News & Observer Publishing Company was sold to McClatchy Newspapers of Sacramento, California, for $373 million, ending 101 years of Daniels family ownership. In the mid-1990s, flexo machines were installed, allowing the paper to print thirty-two pages in color, which was the largest capacity of any newspaper within the United States at the time. The McClatchy Company currently operates a total of twenty-nine daily newspapers in fourtee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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