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Eufaula High School (Eufaula, Alabama)
Eufaula High School is a secondary school, grades 9 through 12, in Eufaula, Alabama, United States. A member of the Alabama High School Athletic Association (AHSAA), it plays in the 6A division for girls and boys athletics. History Van Buren High School, eventually renamed for doctor Thomas Vivian McCoo, served Eufaula's African American students. Schools in Eufaula remained segregated by race until around 1970. After integration began the school stopped sponsoring social events such as proms although unofficial segregated events were still held. By 1990, students at Eufaula High had begun pressuring school officials to allow integrated proms. The first one was held on Saturday, May 18, 1991, without incident. More than half the student body is African American and more than a third white. Alumni Eufaula High School has produced three NFL players (Walter Reeves, Courtney Upshaw, and Jerrel Jernigan). Upshaw and Jernigan played in, and won, a Super Bowl in their rookie year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eufaula, Alabama
Eufaula is the largest city in Barbour County, Alabama, Barbour County, Alabama, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census the city's population was 13,137. History The site along the Chattahoochee River that is now modern-day Eufaula was occupied by three Muscogee, Muscogee Creek tribe (Native American), tribes, including the Eufaula people, Eufaulas. By the 1820s the land was part of the Creek Indian Territory and supposedly off-limits to white settlement. By 1827 enough illegal white settlement had occurred that the Creeks appealed to the federal government for protection of their property rights. In July of that year, federal troops were sent to the Eufaula area to remove the settlers by force of arms, a conflict known as the "Intruders War". The Creeks signed the Treaty of Washington (1826), Treaty of Washington in 1826, ceding most of their land in Georgia and eastern Alabama to the United States, but it was not fully effective in practice until th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cincinnati Bengals
The Cincinnati Bengals are a professional American football team based in Cincinnati. The Bengals compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's American Football Conference (AFC) AFC North, North division. The club's home games are held in downtown Cincinnati at Paycor Stadium, Paul Brown Stadium. Former Cleveland Browns head coach Paul Brown began planning for the creation of the Bengals franchise in 1965, and Cincinnati's city council approved the construction of Riverfront Stadium in 1966. Finally, in 1967, the Bengals were founded when a group headed by Brown received franchise approval by the American Football League (AFL) on May 23, 1967, and they began play in the 1968 season. Brown was the Bengals' head coach from their inception to . After being dismissed as the Browns' head coach by Art Modell (who had purchased a majority interest in the team in ) in January , Brown had shown interest in establishing another NFL franchise in Ohio and l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Super Bowl
The Super Bowl is the annual final playoff game of the National Football League (NFL) to determine the league champion. It has served as the final game of every NFL season since 1966, replacing the NFL Championship Game. Since 2022, the game is played on the second Sunday in February. Prior Super Bowls were played on Sundays in early to mid-January from 1967 to 1978, late January from 1979 to 2003, and the first Sunday of February from 2004 to 2021. Winning teams are awarded the Vince Lombardi Trophy, named for the coach who won the first two Super Bowls. Due to the NFL restricting use of its "Super Bowl" trademark, it is frequently referred to as the "big game" or other generic terms by non-sponsoring corporations. The day the game is played is often referred to as "Super Bowl Sunday" or simply "Super Sunday". The game was created as part of a 1966 merger agreement between the NFL and the competing American Football League (AFL) to have their best teams compete for a champi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Angeles Rams
The Los Angeles Rams are a professional American football team based in the Los Angeles metropolitan area. The Rams compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the National Football Conference (NFC) West division. The Rams play their home games at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, which they share with the Los Angeles Chargers. The franchise was founded in 1936 as the Cleveland Rams in Cleveland, Ohio. The franchise won the 1945 NFL Championship Game, then moved to Los Angeles in 1946, making way for Paul Brown's Cleveland Browns of the All-America Football Conference and becoming the only NFL championship team to play the following season in another city. The club played its home games at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum until 1980, when it moved into a reconstructed Anaheim Stadium in Orange County, California. The Rams made their first Super Bowl appearance at the end of the 1979 NFL season, losing Super Bowl XIV to the Pittsburgh Steelers, 31–19. After t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Les Snead
Samuel Lester Snead (born January 19, 1971) is an American football executive who is the general manager of the Los Angeles Rams of the National Football League (NFL), a position he has held since 2012. Prior to joining the Rams in 2012, Snead served in the Jacksonville Jaguars and Atlanta Falcons front offices from 1995-2011. Early years Snead was born and grew up in Eufaula, Alabama and was an all-state offensive guard at Eufaula High School. He switched to tight end at Troy State before attending the University of Alabama at Birmingham and earning a varsity letter for playing on the first NCAA-sanctioned Division III UAB Blazers football team. He then transferred to Auburn. After Snead served as a graduate assistant at Auburn, he became a scout. Professional career In 1995, Snead was hired by the expansion Jacksonville Jaguars as a pro scout, where he worked until 1997, when he was hired by the Atlanta Falcons to the same position. In 2009, he was promoted to director of pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terran Condrey
Terran or Terrans may also refer to: Fictional entities Literature * Terran Federation (''Starship Troopers'') * Terran Trade Authority universe of Stewart Cowley * Terran Empire in the books of Poul Anderson Television * Terran Federation * Terran Empire in the Mirror Universe of ''Star Trek'' Gaming * Terran Empire, in ''Star Hero'' * The Terran, in ''StarCraft'' * Terran Federation (''Starfire'') * Terran Republic, in ''PlanetSide'' * Terrans, in '' Star Command: Revolution'' * Terran Confederation (''Wing Commander'') * ''Terrans'', in the X video game series People * Jennifer Terran (fl. from 1997), American singer-songwriter and pianist * Tony Terran (1926–2017), American trumpet player and musician * Terran Campbell (born 1998), Canadian soccer player * Terran Petteway (born 1992), American basketball player in the Israeli Basketball Premier League * Terran Sandwith (born 1972), Canadian ice hockey player Other * Terran (grape), alternative name f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gwen Jackson
Gwen Jackson (born October 23, 1980) is a former WNBA player who played for the Phoenix Mercury. She also played for the San Antonio Silver Stars. She was the sixth overall pick in the 2003 WNBA Draft. She attended the University of Tennessee The University of Tennessee (officially The University of Tennessee, Knoxville; or UT Knoxville; UTK; or UT) is a public land-grant research university in Knoxville, Tennessee. Founded in 1794, two years before Tennessee became the 16th state, .... High school Jackson played for Eufaula High School in Eufaula, Alabama, where she was named a WBCA All-American. Jackson was also selected to receive the 1998 Alabama Miss Basketball award. She participated in the 1999 WBCA High School All-America Game where she scored eight points. Tennessee statistics Source Notes External linksPlayer Profile 1980 births Living people American women's basketball players Basketball players from Alabama Indiana Fever draft picks Phoenix ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerrel Jernigan
Jerrel Marquis Jernigan (born June 14, 1989) is a former American football wide receiver. He was drafted by the New York Giants in the third round of the 2011 NFL Draft and won Super Bowl XLVI with the team against the New England Patriots. He played college football at Troy Trojans football, Troy. Jerrel currently works at Eufaula High School (Eufaula, Alabama), Eufaula High School as the Head football coach where he played in high school. Professional career Pre-draft He was considered one of the best wide receiver prospects for the 2011 NFL Draft. He was a starter all four years for Troy University, the Trojans. Jernigan's body frame and playing style was compared to the likes of DeSean Jackson and Steve Smith (American football, born 1979), Steve Smith. New York Giants Jernigan was drafted by the New York Giants in the third round with the 83rd overall pick in the 2011 NFL Draft. Through four seasons with the Giants, Jernigan played in 34 games catching 38 passes for 391 ya ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Secondary School
A secondary school describes an institution that provides secondary education and also usually includes the building where this takes place. Some secondary schools provide both '' secondary education, lower secondary education'' (ages 11 to 14) and ''upper secondary education'' (ages 14 to 18), i.e., both levels 2 and 3 of the International Standard Classification of Education, ISCED scale, but these can also be provided in separate schools. In the United States, US, the secondary education system has separate Middle school#United States, middle schools and High school in the United States, high schools. In the United Kingdom, UK, most state schools and Independent school, privately-funded schools accommodate pupils between the ages of 11–16 or 11–18; some UK Independent school, private schools, i.e. Public school (United Kingdom), public schools, admit pupils between the ages of 13 and 18. Secondary schools follow on from primary school, primary schools and prepare for voc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Courtney Upshaw
Courtney Tremaine Upshaw (born December 13, 1989) is a former American football defensive end. He was drafted by the Baltimore Ravens in the second round of the 2012 NFL Draft. He played college football at Alabama. High school career Upshaw attended Eufaula High School, where he played for the Eufaula Tigers high school football team under head coach Dan Klages. In his junior season, Upshaw posted 96 tackles and three interceptions as he helped lead Eufaula to a 14–1 season record, including the Tigers first state championship finale appearances since 1981. They lost 10–7 to Athens. As a senior, Upshaw had 95 solo tackles, 65 assists, including 22 for loss and seven sacks to go with three fumble recoveries. He also had 20 receptions for 496 yards and three touchdowns as a tight end. He was the Alabama Class 5A Lineman of the Year by the Alabama Sports Writers Association and ASWA Class 5A All-State selection in 2007. Upshaw was ranked as the No. 4 defensive end in 2008 by E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Reeves (American Football)
Walter James Reeves (born December 15, 1965) is an American former professional football player who was a tight end for eight seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Auburn Tigers. He was selected by the Phoenix Cardinals in the second round of the 1989 NFL draft The 1989 NFL draft was the procedure by which National Football League teams selected amateur college football players. It is officially known as the NFL Annual Player Selection Meeting. The draft was held April 23–24, 1989, at the Marriott Marq .... References 1965 births Living people American football tight ends Auburn Tigers football players Cleveland Browns players Phoenix Cardinals players San Diego Chargers players People from Eufaula, Alabama Players of American football from Alabama {{tightend-1960s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
