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Washington State Cougars Football
The Washington State Cougars football program is the intercollegiate American football team for Washington State University, located in Pullman, Washington. The team competes at the NCAA Division I level in the FBS and is a member of the Pac-12 Conference (Pac-12) Known as the Cougars, the first football team was fielded in 1894. The Cougars play home games on campus at Martin Stadium, which opened in 1972; the site dates back to 1892 as Soldier Field and was renamed Rogers Field ten years later. Its present seating capacity is 35,117. Their main rivals are the Washington Huskies; the teams historically end the regular season with the Apple Cup rivalry game in late November but that is no longer the case with the Washington Huskies joining the Big Ten. History Early history (1894–1977) Washington State's first head football coach was William Goodyear. That team played only two games in its inaugural season in 1894, posting a 1–1 record. The team's first win was over Idah ...
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1894 Washington Agricultural Football Team
The 1894 Washington Agricultural football team was an American football team that represented Washington Agricultural College during the 1894 college football season. The team was the first team to represent the school. The team competed as an independent under head coach William Goodyear and compiled a record of 1–1. The team's players included Henry Chittenden, John Clemens, Thomas Hardwick, Edward Kimmel, Fred W. Long, Frank Lowden, Milton McCroskey, Frank McReynolds, Floyd Moore, Walter Savage, and Joe Winston. In October 1934, 40 years after the first Washington State football game, 12 of the players from the 1894 team and coach Goodyear were honored guests at Washington State's homecoming football game. Schedule References

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Washington State University Cougar Marching Band
The Washington State University Cougar Marching Band (or CMB) is the marching band of Washington State University. With over 200 members, the Cougar Marching Band performs at every home football game and select away games. The CMB hosts a Band Day and a Marching Band Competition. The latter was started in 2015 to give high school bands in the region a premiere competitive event. Directors Band Composition Instrumentation *Piccolos *Clarinets *Alto Saxophones *Tenor Saxophones *Trumpets *Mellophones *Trombones *Baritones *Sousaphones *Snares *Tenors *Basses *Cymbals Color Guard * Flags * Rifles Feature Twirler The feature twirler is an auditioned role. They perform alongside the band during all events on game day. Repertoire "The Fight Song" " The Fight Song" is the fight song of the university. The song was composed in 1919 by WSU student Phyllis Sayles with fellow student Zella Melcher penning the lyrics. In 2019, the CMB celebrated the 100th anniversary o ...
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Rogers Field (Washington)
Rogers Field was an outdoor athletic stadium in the northwest United States, on the campus of Washington State University in Pullman, Washington. It was the home venue of the WSU Cougars football and track teams until severely damaged by a fire in April 1970. Partially demolished in early 1971, Rogers Field was replaced by the concrete Martin Stadium, which was built on the same site and opened in 1972. History Originally opened in 1892 for track and field and named "Soldier Field", it hosted its first football game in 1895, when WSU defeated its Palouse neighbor Idaho 10–4. In 1902, the stadium was renamed for Governor John Rogers, who died in office the previous December. In its early years, it also hosted Cougar baseball, with home plate in the southeast corner. The final structure was completely rebuilt in 1936. The 23,500-seat wooden stadium had a horseshoe-shaped three-section grandstand, open on the west end, with a quarter-mile (402 m) running track. The press ...
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Washington State Cougars
The Washington State Cougars (known informally as the Cougs) are the sport, athletic teams that represent Washington State University. Located in Pullman, Washington, WSU is a member of the Pac-12 Conference in NCAA Division I. The athletic program comprises ten women's sports and seven men's intercollegiate sports, and also offers various intramural sports. Sports sponsored WSU formerly had varsity programs in Rowing (sport), rowing, NCAA Boxing Championship, boxing, collegiate wrestling, wrestling, gymnastics, and Shooting sport#Rifle, rifle. In 1937, boxers Roy Petragallo and Ed McKinnon won individual titles and the Cougar team, under coach Ike Deeter (1902–2003), won the NCAA NCAA Boxing Championship, boxing championship, WSU's first national championship. (The Inland Northwest (United States), Inland Northwest was a hotbed of the sport as Idaho Vandals#Boxing, Idaho and Gonzaga Bulldogs#Boxing, Gonzaga also had top programs and won national titles.) Collegiate boxing ...
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Football Bowl Subdivision
The NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), formerly known as Division I-A, is the highest level of college football in the United States. The FBS consists of the largest schools in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). As of the 2024 season, there are 10 conferences and 134 schools in FBS. College football is one of the most popular spectator sports throughout much of the United States. The top schools generate tens of millions of dollars in yearly revenue. Top FBS teams draw tens of thousands of fans to games, and the fifteen largest American stadiums by capacity all host FBS teams or games. Since July 1, 2021, college athletes have been able to receive payments for the use of their name, image, and likeness. Prior to this date colleges were only allowed to provide players with non-monetary compensation such as athletic scholarships that provide for tuition, housing, and books. Unlike other NCAA divisions and subdivisions, the NCAA does not officially ...
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NCAA Division I
NCAA Division I (D-I) is the highest division of intercollegiate athletics sanctioned by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) in the United States, which accepts players globally. D-I schools include the major collegiate athletic powers, with large budgets, more elaborate facilities and more athletic scholarships than Division II and Division III as well as many smaller schools committed to the highest level of intercollegiate competition. This level was previously called the University Division of the NCAA, in contrast to the lower-level College Division; these terms were replaced with numeric divisions in 1973. The University Division was renamed Division I, while the College Division was split in two; the College Division members that offered scholarships or wanted to compete against those who did became Division II, while those who did not want to offer scholarships became Division III. For college football only, D-I schools are further divided into the ...
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Washington State University
Washington State University (WSU, or colloquially Wazzu) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Pullman, Washington, United States. Founded in 1890, WSU is also one of the oldest Land-grant university, land-grant universities in the Western United States, American West. With an undergraduate enrollment of 24,278 and a total enrollment of 28,581, it is the second largest institution of higher education in Washington state behind the University of Washington. It is Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity". The WSU Pullman campus stands on a hill and is characterized by open spaces and a red brick and basalt material palette—materials originally found on site. The university sits within the rolling topography of the Palouse in rural eastern Washington and remains closely connected to the town and the region. The university also operat ...
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American Football
American football, referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada and also known as gridiron football, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular American football field, field with goalposts at each end. The offense (sports), offense, the team with possession of the oval-shaped Ball (gridiron football), football, attempts to advance down the field by Rush (gridiron football), running with the ball or Forward pass#Gridiron football, throwing it, while the Defense (sports), defense, the team without possession of the ball, aims to stop the offense's advance and to take control of the ball for themselves. The offense must advance the ball at least ten yard, yards in four Down (gridiron football), downs or plays; if they fail, they turnover on downs, turn over the football to the defense, but if they succeed, they are given a new set of four downs to continue the Glossary of American football#drive, drive. Points are scored primarily b ...
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Northwest Championship
The Northwest Championship was an unofficial NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision, Division I FBS football List of NCAA college football rivalry games, rivalry series title earned by way of an undefeated Whitewash (sport), sweep of the other three fellow Pac-12 teams located in the Pacific Northwest states of Oregon and Washington (state), Washington. Oregon Ducks football, Oregon, Oregon State Beavers football, Oregon State, Washington Huskies football, Washington, and Washington State Cougars football, Washington State first played each other in a Round-robin tournament, round-robin format in the 1903 college football season, 1903 season. As geographic neighbors and members of the former Pacific Coast Conference and current Pac-12 Conference North Division, each team has generally played the others annually. Among the Ducks, Beavers, Huskies, and Cougars there exist three traditional football rivalries: Oregon–Oregon State football rivalry, Oregon–Oregon State, Oreg ...
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Apple Cup
The Apple Cup is an American college football rivalry game between the University of Washington Huskies and Washington State University Cougars, the two largest universities in the state of Washington. Both were members of the Pac-12 Conference until 2024. First played in 1900, , the matchup was traditionally the final game of the regular season for both teams and generally took place on the Saturday preceding Thanksgiving. With the NCAA's extension of the regular season to twelve games in 2006, the game is often played at a later date. From 2011 to 2023, it was most commonly held on the Friday after Thanksgiving. As a non-conference game for the first time in 63 years, the 2024 edition was played early in the season, on September 14 at Lumen Field in Seattle. Since 1946, the game has been held in odd years in Seattle at Husky Stadium (except 2011 and 2024, both at Lumen Field), while Washington State has hosted during even years at Rogers Field (1946, 1948, 1954) and Mart ...
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Washington Huskies Football
The Washington Huskies football team represents the University of Washington in college football. Washington competed in the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) as a member of the Big Ten Conference, after having been a charter member of the Pac-12 Conference until the end of the 2023-2024 season. Husky Stadium, located on campus in Seattle, has been the Huskies' home field since 1920. Washington has won 18 conference championships, seven Rose Bowl Game, Rose Bowls, and claims two national championships recognized by NCAA-designated major selectors. Of these however, Washington's only College football national championships in NCAA Division I FBS, national championship was in 1991 Washington Huskies football team, 1991, when the team finished No. 1 in the AFCA National Championship Trophy, Coaches' Poll. The school's all-time record ranks 22nd by win percentage and 18th by total victories among FBS schools as of 2023. Washington holds the FBS record for the longest un ...
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Oregon State Beavers Football
The Oregon State Beavers football team represents Oregon State University in NCAA Division I FBS college football. The team first fielded an organized football team in 1893 and is a member of the Pac-12 Conference. Their home games are played at Reser Stadium in Corvallis, Oregon, Corvallis, Oregon. History Early history Football at Oregon State University started in 1893 shortly after athletics were initially authorized at the college, which was then known as Oregon Agricultural College. Athletics were banned prior to May 1892, but when the school's president Benjamin Arnold died, his successor John Bloss reversed the ban. Bloss' son, William, started the first team, on which he served as both coach and quarterback. The team's first game was an easy 64–0 victory on November 11, 1893, over visiting Lewis & Clark College, Albany College.Bear and Forbear"College Column,"''Corvallis Times,'' vol. 6, no. 39 (Nov. 15, 1893), pg. 3. Conference affiliations The university has been ...
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