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1903 Princeton Tigers Football Team
The 1903 Princeton Tigers football team was an American football team that represented Princeton University as an independent during the 1903 college football season. In their first season under head coach Art Hillebrand, the Tigers compiled a perfect 11–0 record, shut out 10 of 11 opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 259 to 6. John DeWitt was the team captain. There was no contemporaneous system in 1903 for determining a national champion. However, Princeton was retroactively named as the national champion by the Billingsley Report, Helms Athletic Foundation, Houlgate System, and Parke H. Davis, and as a co-national champion by the National Championship Foundation (NCF). Michigan was co-champion by the NCF. Three Princeton players were selected as consensus first-team players on the 1903 All-America team: halfback Dana Kafer; end Howard Henry; and guard John DeWitt. DeWitt was later inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame. Other notable players ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Art Hillebrand
Arthur Ralph Thomas "Doc" Hillebrand (March 9, 1876 – December 14, 1941) was an American football and baseball player and coach. He played college football as a tackle for Princeton University. Hillebrand served as head football coach at the United States Naval Academy from 1901 to 1902 and at his alma mater, Princeton, from 1903 to 1905, compiling a career college football coaching record of 35–15–2. Hillebrand was also the head baseball coach at Navy and Princeton during the same years, tallying a career college baseball coaching mark of 65–31. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as player in 1970. Coaching career Hillebrand was the ninth head football at the United States Naval Academy located in Annapolis, Maryland Annapolis ( ) is the capital city of the U.S. state of Maryland and the county seat of, and only incorporated city in, Anne Arundel County. Situated on the Chesapeake Bay at the mouth of the Severn River, south of Baltimore and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ralph Tipton Davis
Ralph Tipton Davis (c. 1880May 23, 1934) was an American football player. He played college football at Princeton University and was a consensus All-American in 1901. He also played for Princeton's baseball and track teams. In 1902, he won the intercollegiate championship in the hammer throw and set a collegiate record with a throw of 164 feet, 10 inches. Early years Davis was born in approximately 1880. Davis grew up in Blossburg, Pennsylvania and attended preparatory school at Andover. He was the captain of the football team at Andover. Princeton Davis attended Princeton University and played for the Princeton Tigers football team from 1900 to 1902. While attending Princeton, Davis was five feet, seven inches tall and weighed 168 pounds. He played at the tackle position as a freshman and became an end as a sophomore. Davis was selected as a consensus All-American at the end position in 1901. He was also the captain of Princeton's 1902 football team. However, in the su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1903 Lafayette Football Team
The 1903 Lafayette football team was an American football team that represented Lafayette College as an independent during the 1903 college football season. In its first season season under head coach Alfred E. Bull, the team compiled a 7–3 record. John Ernst was the team captain. The team played its home games at March Field in Easton, Pennsylvania. Schedule References {{Lafayette Leopards football navbox Lafayette Lafayette or La Fayette may refer to: People * Lafayette (name), a list of people with the surname Lafayette or La Fayette or the given name Lafayette * House of La Fayette, a French noble family ** Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette (1757â ... Lafayette Leopards football seasons Lafayette football ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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The 1903 Cornell Big Red football team was an American football team that represented Cornell University during the 1903 college football season. In their first season under head coach Bill Warner, the Big Red compiled a 6–3–1 record and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 120 to 103. While the team shut out 7 of 10 opponents, it gave up 44 and 42 points in losses to Princeton and Penn, respectively. Schedule References {{Cornell Big Red football navbox Cornell Cornell Big Red football seasons Cornell Big Red football The Cornell Big Red football team represents Cornell University in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) college football competition as a member of the Ivy League. It is one of the ol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1903 Dartmouth Football Team
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The 1903 Dartmouth football team was an American football team that represented Dartmouth College as an independent during the 1903 college football season. In its first season under head coach Fred Folsom, the team compiled a 9–1 record, shut out eight of ten opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 242 to 23. Myron E. Witham was the team captain. The team played its home games at Alumni Oval in Hanover, New Hampshire. Schedule References Dartmouth Dartmouth Big Green football seasons Dartmouth football The Dartmouth Big Green football team represents Dartmouth College in NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) college football competition as a member of the Ivy League. The team possesses a storied tradition that includes a nat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1903 Carlisle Indians Football Team
The 1903 Carlisle Indians football team represented the Carlisle Indian Industrial School as an independent during the 1903 college football season. Led by fifth-year head coach Pop Warner, the Indians compiled a record of 11–2–1 and outscored opponents 274 to 62. In 1903, an Indian team coached by Warner first employed its infamous "hidden-ball play" against heavily favored Harvard. Warner, as coach at Cornell, had already used it against Penn State in 1897, but it had not achieved much notice. Carlisle led Harvard at halftime, and hoping to keep the game's momentum, Warner elected to try the play on the ensuing kickoff. Harvard executed the kick, and the Indians formed a circle around the returner. With the aid of a specially altered jersey, the ball was placed up the back of the returner. The Indians broke the huddle and spread out in different directions. Each player feigned carrying the ball, except Dillon, the man with the ball up the back of his jersey. The ruse confuse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scranton, Pennsylvania
Scranton is a city in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, United States, and the county seat of Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, Lackawanna County. With a population of 76,328 as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 U.S. census, Scranton is the largest city in Northeastern Pennsylvania, the Wyoming Valley, and the Scranton–Wilkes-Barre–Hazleton Metropolitan Statistical Area, which has a population of 562,037 as of 2020. It is List of cities and boroughs in Pennsylvania by population, the sixth largest city in Pennsylvania. The contiguous network of five cities and more than 40 boroughs all built in a straight line in Northeastern Pennsylvania's urban area act culturally and logistically as one continuous city, so while the city of Scranton itself is a smaller town, the larger unofficial city of Scranton/Wilkes-Barre contains nearly half a million residents in roughly 200 square miles. Scranton/Wilkes-Barre is the cultural and economic center of a re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Scranton Times-Tribune
''The Scranton Times-Tribune'' is a morning newspaper serving the Scranton, Pennsylvania, area. It is the flagship title of Times-Shamrock Communications and has been run by three generations of the Lynett-Haggerty family. On Sundays, the paper is published as ''The Sunday Times''. The paper has an average circulation of 47,663. History The current paper is the result of a 2005 merger between the afternoon ''Scranton Times'' and morning ''Scranton Tribune''. The ''Times'' was founded in 1870. It struggled under six owners before E. J. Lynett bought the paper in 1895. Within 20 years, the ''Times'' was the dominant newspaper in northeastern Pennsylvania, and the third-largest in the state (behind only the ''Philadelphia Inquirer'' and the ''Pittsburgh Press''). In January 1923, Lynett founded one of Scranton's first radio stations, WQAN. The Lynett family still owns the station today under the calls WEJL. Lynett died in 1943, and his three children took control of the paper with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1903 Lehigh Brown And White Football Team
The 1903 Lehigh Brown and White football team was an American football team that represented Lehigh University Lehigh University (LU) is a private research university in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania in the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania. The university was established in 1865 by businessman Asa Packer and was originally affiliated with the Epis ... as an independent during the 1903 college football season. In its second season under head coach Samuel B. Newton, the team compiled a 9–2–1 record and outscored opponents by a total of 331 to 45. Schedule References {{Lehigh Mountain Hawks football navbox Lehigh Lehigh Mountain Hawks football seasons Lehigh Brown and White football ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Providence, Rhode Island
Providence is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Rhode Island. One of the oldest cities in New England, it was founded in 1636 by Roger Williams, a Reformed Baptist theologian and religious exile from the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He named the area in honor of "God's merciful Providence" which he believed was responsible for revealing such a haven for him and his followers. The city developed as a busy port as it is situated at the mouth of the Providence River in Providence County, at the head of Narragansett Bay. Providence was one of the first cities in the country to industrialize and became noted for its textile manufacturing and subsequent machine tool, jewelry, and silverware industries. Today, the city of Providence is home to eight hospitals and List of colleges and universities in Rhode Island#Institutions, eight institutions of higher learning which have shifted the city's economy into service industries, though it still retains some manufacturin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1903 Brown Bears Football Team
The 1903 Brown Bears football team represented Brown University as an independent during the 1903 college football season The 1903 college football season had no clear-cut champion, with the ''Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book'' listing Michigan and Princeton as having been selected national champions. Conference standings Major conference standings .... Led by Dave Fultz in his first and only season as head coach, Brown compiled a record of 5–4–1. The team was led by first-year head coach Dave Fultz. Schedule References Brown Brown Bears football seasons Brown Bears football {{collegefootball-1903-season-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1903 Georgetown Blue And Gray Football Team
The 1903 Georgetown Blue and Gray football team represented Georgetown University during the 1903 college football season. Led by Philip King in his first year as head coach, the team went 7–3 and claims a Southern championship. National champion Princeton's two closest game were against Yale and Georgetown. Captain Hub Hart had a 99-yard run from scrimmage against Maryland Maryland ( ) is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. It shares borders with Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware and the Atlantic Ocean to ...; this is still a school record. Schedule Players Line Backfield References {{Independent southern football champions Georgetown Georgetown Hoyas football seasons Georgetown Blue and Gray football ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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