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1969 New Mexico Lobos Football Team
The 1969 New Mexico Lobos football team was an American football team that represented the University of New Mexico in the Western Athletic Conference (WAC) during the 1969 NCAA University Division football season. In their second season under head coach Rudy Feldman, the Lobos compiled a 4–6 record (1–5 against WAC opponents) and were outscored, 281 to 171. Willie Shaw and Rocky Long were the team captains. The team's statistical leaders included Rocky Long with 865 passing yards, Sam Scarber with 534 rushing yards, and John Stewart with 391 receiving yards, and David Bookert with 30 points scored. 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Western Athletic Conference
The Western Athletic Conference (WAC) is an NCAA Division I conference. The WAC covers a broad expanse of the western United States with member institutions located in Arizona, California, New Mexico, Utah, Washington (state), Washington, and Texas. Due to most of the conference's College football, football-playing members leaving the WAC for other affiliations, the conference discontinued football as a sponsored sport after the 2012–13 season and left the NCAA's NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision, Football Bowl Subdivision (formerly known as Division I-A). The WAC thus became the first Division I conference to drop football since the Big West Conference, Big West in 2000. The WAC then added men's soccer and became one of the NCAA's eleven Division I non-football conferences. The WAC underwent a major expansion on July 1, 2021, with four schools joining. The conference reinstated football at that time and now competes in the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivisio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1969 Arizona Wildcats Football Team
The 1969 Arizona Wildcats football team represented the University of Arizona in the Western Athletic Conference (WAC) during the 1969 NCAA University Division football season. In their first season under head coach Bob Weber, the Wildcats compiled a 3–7 record (3–3 against WAC opponents), finished in fifth place in the WAC, and were outscored by their opponents, 276 to 219. The team played its home games in Arizona Stadium in Tucson, Arizona. Weber replaced Darrell Mudra, who left Arizona to become the head coach at Western Illinois at the end of the 1968 season. Without Mudra in charge, the Wildcats struggled heavily, which led to Arizona losing its first four games of the 1969 season and only winning only three games all year. The team's statistical leaders included Brian Linstrom with 1,598 passing yards, Ron Gardin with 759 rushing yards, and Hal Arnason with 489 receiving yards. Schedule References Arizona Arizona ( ; nv, Hoozdo Hahoodzo ; ood, AlÄ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1969 Western Athletic Conference 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. ** R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rio Grande Rivalry (football)
The New Mexico–New Mexico State football rivalry, known as the Battle of I-25 and the Rio Grande Rivalry in all sports, is an annual football game between the University of New Mexico and New Mexico State University. It is called the Battle of I-25 because the two universities are located along Interstate 25 connecting Albuquerque and Las Cruces. In the entire history of the rivalry, the game has never been contested anywhere beside those two cities. Series history The rivalry between New Mexico's only two NCAA Division I institutions dates back to January 1, 1894 – eighteen years before New Mexico achieved statehood – when the schools met in a football contest in Albuquerque. While it is clear that New Mexico won that first game, school records seem to disagree on the score. According to New Mexico media guides the final score was 25–5 but according to New Mexico State media guides the score was 18–6. By the time New Mexico entered the union in 1912 UNM an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1969 New Mexico State Aggies Football Team
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The 1969 New Mexico State Aggies football team was an American football team that represented New Mexico State University as an independent during the 1969 NCAA University Division football season. In their second year under head coach Jim Wood, the Aggies compiled a 5–5 record and were outscored by a total of 235 to 199. The team played its home games at Memorial Stadium.2018 Media Guide, p. 15. Schedule References New Mexico State New Mexico State Aggies football seasons New Mexico State Aggies football The New Mexico State Aggies football team represents New Mexico State University in NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) college football as an independent. Although New Mexico State is a member of the Western Athletic Conference (W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1969 Wyoming Cowboys Football Team
The 1969 Wyoming Cowboys football team represented the University of Wyoming in the 1969 NCAA University Division football season. Led by eighth-year head coach Lloyd Eaton, they were members of the Western Athletic Conference (WAC) and played their home games on campus at War Memorial Stadium in Laramie. The Cowboys were three-time defending conference champions and outscored their opponents 242 to 118. Wyoming won its first but dropped the last four in a season tainted by a racial controversy. "Black 14" controversy During the season in mid-October, head coach Eaton dismissed 14 black players from the team for asking to wear black armbands during the upcoming home game against the Brigham Young University (BYU) Cougars. At the previous year's win over BYU at Provo, Cougar players had subjected them to racial epithets. A week before the game, the team's black members were reminded of the incident and also informed about the racial policies of the Church of Jesus Christ of L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1969 Arizona State Sun Devils Football Team
The 1969 Arizona State Sun Devils football team was an American football team that represented Arizona State University in the Western Athletic Conference (WAC) during the 1969 NCAA University Division football season. In their 12th season under head coach Frank Kush, the Sun Devils compiled an 8–2 record (6–1 against WAC opponents), won the WAC championship, and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 383 to 179. The team's statistical leaders included Joe Spagnola with 1,488 passing yards, Dave Buchanan with 908 rushing yards, and Calvin Demery with 816 receiving yards. Schedule References Arizona State Arizona State University (Arizona State or ASU) is a public research university in the Phoenix metropolitan area. Founded in 1885 by the 13th Arizona Territorial Legislature, ASU is one of the largest public universities by enrollment in the ... Arizona State Sun Devils football seasons Western Athletic Conference football champion seasons Arizon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Jose, California
San Jose, officially San José (; ; ), is a major city in the U.S. state of California that is the cultural, financial, and political center of Silicon Valley and largest city in Northern California by both population and area. With a 2020 population of 1,013,240, it is the most populous city in both the Bay Area and the San Jose–San Francisco–Oakland, CA Combined Statistical Area, San Jose-San Francisco-Oakland Combined Statistical Area, which contain 7.7 million and 9.7 million people respectively, the List of largest California cities by population, third-most populous city in California (after Los Angeles and San Diego and ahead of San Francisco), and the List of United States cities by population, tenth-most populous in the United States. Located in the center of the Santa Clara Valley on the southern shore of San Francisco Bay, San Jose covers an area of . San Jose is the county seat of Santa Clara County, California, Santa Clara County and the main component of the San ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CEFCU Stadium
CEFCU ('sef-kyü) Stadium, formerly known as Spartan Stadium, is an outdoor athletic stadium on the west coast of the United States, located in the Spartan Keyes neighborhood of central San Jose, California. Owned by San José State University, the venue is the longtime home of Spartan football; it also hosts the university's commencement ceremony on Memorial Day weekend, and occasional high school football games. Known as Spartan Stadium for over eight decades, it was renamed in 2016. CEFCU Stadium was the home of the San Jose Earthquakes (originally San Jose Clash) of Major League Soccer from the league's inception in 1996 through the 2005 season. Other tenants have included the original San Jose Earthquakes of the North American Soccer League from 1974 to 1984, the San Jose CyberRays of the Women's United Soccer Association from 2001 to 2003, and the San Francisco Dragons of Major League Lacrosse in 2008. Soccer Bowl '75 was also held at CEFCU. During the winter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1969 San Jose State Spartans Football Team
The 1969 San Jose State Spartans football team represented San Jose State CollegeSan Jose State University was known as San Jose State College from 1935 to 1971. during the 1969 NCAA University Division football season. San Jose State's 1969 season was part of the inaugural season for the Pacific Coast Athletic Association.The Big West Conference was known as the Pacific Coast Athletic Association from its founding in 1969 through 1987. The team was led by head coach Joe McMullen, in his first year, and played home games at Spartan Stadium in San Jose, California. They finished the season with a record of two wins and eight losses (2–8, 1–1 PCAA). Schedule Team players in the NFL The following San Jose State players were selected in the 1970 NFL Draft. Notes References San Jose State San Jose State Spartans football seasons San Jose State Spartans football The San Jose State Spartans football team represents San José State University in NCAA Division I FBS ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arizona–New Mexico Football Rivalry
The Arizona–New Mexico football rivalry is an American college football rivalry between the Arizona Wildcats and New Mexico Lobos. They have met 67 times on the football field. Arizona leads the series 44–20–3. Kit Carson Rifle From 1938 to 1990, the winner of the rivalry took ownership of the Kit Carson Rifle. The gun is a Springfield Model 1866 rifle that is rumored to have once belonged to the famous frontier scout, Kit Carson. Game scores from each game are carved into the stock of the rifle. Prior to the 1997 Insight.com Bowl, the two schools announced that they would retire the rifle due to concerns of its history of violence against Native Americans and it has not been used during any subsequent games between the two schools. Game results * Non-conference games (34: 1908–1930, 1951–1961 and 1978–2015) * Two bowl games: 1997 and 2015 * Not played in 46 seasons (1914–1919, 1943–1945, 1978–1986, 1988–1989, 1991–1996, 1998–2006, 2009–2014 and 201 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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