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Irving Pray
Irving Rudolph Pray (December 25, 1886 – August 27, 1948) was an American football coach. He served as the head football coach at Norwich University in Northfield, Vermont from 1913 to 1914 and Louisiana State University (LSU) for part of the 1916 season and for full seasons in 1919 and 1922, compiling a career college football coaching record of 11–20. Pray was a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was born in Natick, Massachusetts and died in Alexandria, Louisiana. Pray was the head football coach at Natick High School, in hometown in 1911. In 1915, he appointed head football coach at Salem High School in Salem, Massachusetts, succeeding Harold McDevitt. Head coaching record College football *First 5 games of season were coached by E. T. MacDonnell and the last 3 by Dana X. Bible. See also * List of college football head coaches with non-consecutive tenure This is a list of college football head coaches with non-consecutive tenure, mea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Natick, Massachusetts
Natick ( ) is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. It is near the center of the MetroWest region of Massachusetts, with a population of 37,006 at the 2020 census. west of Boston, Natick is part of the Greater Boston area. Massachusetts's center of population was in Natick at the censuses of 2000-2020, most recently in the vicinity of Hunters Lane. Name The name ''Natick'' comes from the language of the Massachusett Native American tribe and is commonly thought to mean "Place of Hills." A more accurate translation may be "place of ursearching," after John Eliot's successful search for a location for his Praying Indian settlement. History Natick was settled in 1651 by John Eliot, a Puritan missionary born in Widford, England, who received a commission and funds from England's Long Parliament to settle the Massachusett Indians called Praying Indians on both sides of the Charles River, on land deeded from the settlement at Dedham. Natick was the first of E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1914 College Football Season
The 1914 college football season had no clear-cut champion, with the ''Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book'' listing Army, Illinois, and Texas as having been selected national champions. Only Illinois claims a national championship for the 1914 season. Conference program and changes Conference changes *Three conferences began football play in 1914: **'' Oklahoma Intercollegiate Conference'' – active through the 1928 season; one of two conferences to bear this name, the second would be active between 1974 and 1996 **'' Hawkeye College Conference'' – active through the 1917 season **''Kentucky Intercollegiate Athletic Association'' – active through the 1916 season Membership changes Program changes * After reinstating their football program after a 3-year hiatus, the University of Southern California Methodists officially changed their nickname to the now-eponymous Trojans. Stadiums Final Season * Alabama plays their final season at The Quad. The Quad has bee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
LSU Tigers Football Coaches
Louisiana State University (officially Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, commonly referred to as LSU) is a public land-grant research university in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The university was founded in 1860 near Pineville, Louisiana, under the name Louisiana State Seminary of Learning & Military Academy. The current LSU main campus was dedicated in 1926, consists of more than 250 buildings constructed in the style of Italian Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio, and the main campus historic district occupies a plateau on the banks of the Mississippi River. LSU is the flagship school of the state of Louisiana, as well as the flagship institution of the Louisiana State University System, and is the most comprehensive university in Louisiana. In 2021, the university enrolled over 28,000 undergraduate and more than 4,500 graduate students in 14 schools and colleges. Several of LSU's graduate schools, such as the E. J. Ourso College of Business an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1948 Deaths
Events January * January 1 ** The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) is inaugurated. ** The Constitution of New Jersey (later subject to amendment) goes into effect. ** The railways of Britain are nationalized, to form British Railways. * January 4 – Burma gains its independence from the United Kingdom, becoming an independent republic, named the ''Union of Burma'', with Sao Shwe Thaik as its first President, and U Nu its first Prime Minister. * January 5 ** Warner Brothers shows the first color newsreel (''Tournament of Roses Parade'' and the '' Rose Bowl Game''). ** The first Kinsey Report, ''Sexual Behavior in the Human Male'', is published in the United States. * January 7 – Mantell UFO incident: Kentucky Air National Guard pilot Thomas Mantell crashes while in pursuit of an unidentified flying object. * January 12 – Mahatma Gandhi begins his fast-unto-death in Delhi, to stop communal violence during the Partition of India. * January 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1886 Births
Events January–March * January 1 – Upper Burma is formally annexed to British Burma, following its conquest in the Third Anglo-Burmese War of November 1885. * January 5– 9 – Robert Louis Stevenson's novella ''Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde'' is published in New York and London. * January 16 – A resolution is passed in the German Parliament to condemn the Prussian deportations, the politically motivated mass expulsion of ethnic Poles and Jews from Prussia, initiated by Otto von Bismarck. * January 18 – Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England. * January 29 – Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile, the Benz Patent-Motorwagen (built in 1885). * February 6– 9 – Seattle riot of 1886: Anti-Chinese sentiments result in riots in Seattle, Washington. * February 8 – The West End Riots following a popular meeting in Trafalgar Square, London. * F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of College Football Head Coaches With Non-consecutive Tenure
This is a list of college football head coaches with non-consecutive tenure, meaning that an individual was a head coach at a college or university for a period, departed, and then returned to the same college or university in the same capacity. This list includes only head coaches. This list does not include the following: * Head coaches whose break in tenure was due to a temporarily suspended football program with no other coach during the break in tenure. Most such cases involve programs that halted play for World War I (including the Spanish flu, flu pandemic linked to that conflict), World War II, or COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, COVID-19. Another recent example is Bill Clark (American football), Bill Clark, head coach at UAB Blazers football, UAB since 2014. UAB dropped football after his first season at the school, but announced six months later that it would reinstate the sport, eventually resuming play in 2017. Clark was under contract to UAB throughout the progr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dana X
Dana may refer to: People Given name * Dana (given name) Surname * Dana (surname) * Dana family of Cambridge, Massachusetts ** James Dwight Dana (1813–1895), scientist, zoological author abbreviation Dana Nickname or stage name * Dana International, stage name of singer Sharon Cohen * Dana Shum, the Shaw Brothers Hong Kong actress from 1973 to 1979 * Dana, stage name of Dana Rosemary Scallon (born 1951), Irish singer and former politician * Dana (South Korean singer) (born 1986), South Korean pop singer Places Ancient world * Ancient Dana or Tyana in Cappadocia, capital of a Neo-Hittite kingdom in the 1st millennium BC * Ancient Dana possibly associated with Tynna in Cappadocia Canada * CFS Dana, a former military radar installation in Saskatchewan, Canada * Dana Lake, a lake in Eeyou Istchee Baie-James, Quebec, Canada Ethiopia * Dana, Ethiopia, a village Iran * Dana County, an administrative subdivision of Iran * Dana Rural District, an administrative subdi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1922 LSU Tigers Football Team
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The 1922 LSU Tigers football team represented Louisiana State University (LSU) as a member of the Southern Conference (SoCon) during the 1922 college football season. Led by Irving Pray, who returned for his third and final season as head coach after having helmed the team for part of the 1916 season and the entire 1919 season, the Tigers compiled an overall record of 3–7 with a mark of 1–2 in conference play, placing in a five-way tie for 11th in the SoCon. Schedule References LSU LSU Tigers football seasons LSU Tigers football The LSU Tigers football program, also known as the Fighting Tigers, represents Louisiana State University in college football. The Tigers compete in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1922 College Football Season
The 1922 college football season had a number of unbeaten and untied teams, and no clear-cut champion, with the ''Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book'' listing California, Cornell, Iowa, Princeton, and Vanderbilt as national champions. California, Cornell, and Princeton were all picked by multiple selectors. Andy Smith's Pacific Coast Conference champion "Wonder Team" at California continued on its streak since 1920. Eastern power Cornell was coached by Gil Dobie and led by one of the sport's great backfields with George Pfann, Eddie Kaw, Floyd Ramsey, and Charles E. Cassidy. Bill Roper's Princeton team was dubbed the "team of destiny" by Grantland Rice after defeating Chicago 21–18 in the first game nationally broadcast on radio. Today, college football on radio is common for nearly every game in every division. On the same day, Cal defeated USC at the dedication of Rose Bowl Stadium. The Southern Conference would begin its first season of football in 1922. V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Southern Conference
The Southern Conference (SoCon) is a collegiate athletic conference affiliated with the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I. Southern Conference football teams compete in the Football Championship Subdivision (formerly known as Division I-AA). Member institutions are located in the states of Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia. Established in 1921, the Southern Conference ranks as the fifth-oldest major college athletic conference in the United States, and either the third- or fourth-oldest in continuous operation, depending on definitions. Among conferences currently in operation, the Big Ten (1896) and Missouri Valley (1907) are indisputably older. The Pac-12 Conference did not operate under its current charter until 1959, but claims the history of the Pacific Coast Conference, founded in 1915, as its own. The Southwest Conference (SWC) was founded in 1914, but ceased operation in 1996. The Big Eight Conference ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1919 LSU Tigers Football Team
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The 1919 LSU Tigers football team represented the LSU Tigers of Louisiana State University during the 1919 college football season. Schedule References LSU LSU Tigers football seasons LSU Tigers football The LSU Tigers football program, also known as the Fighting Tigers, represents Louisiana State University in college football. The Tigers compete in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1919 College Football Season
The 1919 college football season had no clear-cut champion, with the ''Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book'' listing 1919 Centre Praying Colonels football team, Centre, 1919 Harvard Crimson football team, Harvard, 1919 Illinois Fighting Illini football team, Illinois, 1919 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Notre Dame, and 1919 Texas A&M Aggies football team, Texas A&M as having been deemed national champions by major selectors Only Harvard, Illinois, and Texas A&M claim national championships for the 1919 season. Texas A&M began claiming the 1919 national championship in 2012. Conference and program changes Conference memberships Program changes * University of Washington Washington Huskies football, football officially adopted the 1919 Washington Sun Dodgers football team, Sun Dodgers nickname. * State College of Washington (Washington State) Washington State Cougars football, football officially adopted the Washington State Cougars, Cougars nickname. Rose B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
