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Football Hall Selects Another Marine
THE COFFIN CORNER: Vol. 22, No. 5 (2000) Football Hall selects another Marine By John Gunn Camp Lejeune Globe/ 5-5 On the football field, he was a hawk, not a dove. As a result, former Marine Bob Dove of Notre Dame and NFL fame was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame. He is at least the 45th former Marine so honored. The hall's Honor Committee, which reviews accomplishments of players of more than 50 years ago, selected Dove, a three-year starter at end for the Fighting Irish from 1940-42, a two-time All-American and winner of the Knute Rockne Trophy in 1942. "It had been over 50 years. I almost forgot about it," Dove said. (Similar efforts have been unsuccessful to honor back George Franck, a Minnesota All-American who was third in the 1940 Heisman Trophy voting and a Marine aviator in the South Pacific during WW II.) THIRTEEN OTHER PLAYERS and two coaches whose selections were announced April 25 at a South Bend, Ind., news conference will be inducted into the hall at a Dec. 12 banquet in New York and formally enshrined at South Bend in August 2001. Dove, who played nine seasons with the Chicago Rockets, Chicago Cardinals and Detroit Lions, also starred for the El Toro Flying Marines in 1944 and '45 -- the "Boys of Autumn" and strongest Leatherneck teams ever fielded. The '44 team won eight, lost one and was ranked 16th in The Associated Press poll even though the base was barely a year and a half old. -
Goln' to the DOGS
THE COFFIN CORNER: Vol. 20, No. 6 (1998) GOlN’ TO THE DOGS By Paul M. Bennett They're off and running excitedly and enthusiastically chasing that elusive rabbit. The long since departed and all but forgotten, All-America Football Conference was a professional football league that had "gone to the dogs." Literally! Some football fans, such as those dour National Football League diehards (you know who you are), would say that "going to the dogs" definitely had described the AAFC's level of play during the league's all too brief, four-year tenure as a fiery competitor to the established pro league. Their argument was further reinforced after the league finally called it quits following the end of the 1949 season, when three of its teams (Cleveland Browns, San Francisco 49ers and Baltimore Colts) were absorbed, or merged (if one is kind), into the NFL commencing with the 1950 season. AAFC fans would simply say "pooh" to those NFL naysayers. What did they know? Haughtiness and arrogance seemed to have been their credo. Conservative to a fault. A new idea must be a bad idea! The eight-team AAFC had played football at a level that was both entertaining to the viewing public and similar in quality to that of the older, ten-team league. The only problem the AAFC seemed to have had was its overall lack of depth, talent-wise, and, more importantly, its lack of adequate team competition. The AAFC's chief asset had been the powerful and innovative Cleveland Browns, arguably one of professional football's most dominant franchises. -
Football Award Winners
FOOTBALL AWARD WINNERS Consensus All-America Selections 2 Consensus All-Americans by School 20 National Award Winners 32 First Team All-Americans Below FBS 42 NCAA Postgraduate scholarship winners 72 Academic All-America Hall of Fame 81 Academic All-Americans by School 82 CONSENSUS ALL-AMERICA SELECTIONS In 1950, the National Collegiate Athletic Bureau (the NCAA’s service bureau) compiled the first official comprehensive roster of all-time All-Americans. The compilation of the All-America roster was supervised by a panel of analysts working in large part with the historical records contained in the files of the Dr. Baker Football Information Service. The roster consists of only those players who were first-team selections on one or more of the All-America teams that were selected for the national audience and received nationwide circulation. Not included are the thousands of players who received mention on All-America second or third teams, nor the numerous others who were selected by newspapers or agencies with circulations that were not primarily national and with viewpoints, therefore, that were not normally nationwide in scope. The following chart indicates, by year (in left column), which national media and organizations selected All-America teams. The headings at the top of each column refer to the selector (see legend after chart). ALL-AMERICA SELECTORS AA AP C CNN COL CP FBW FC FN FW INS L LIB M N NA NEA SN UP UPI W WCF 1889 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – √ – 1890 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – √ – 1891 – – – -
2013 Steelers Media Guide 5
history Steelers History The fifth-oldest franchise in the NFL, the Steelers were founded leading contributors to civic affairs. Among his community ac- on July 8, 1933, by Arthur Joseph Rooney. Originally named the tivities, Dan Rooney is a board member for The American Ireland Pittsburgh Pirates, they were a member of the Eastern Division of Fund, The Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation and The the 10-team NFL. The other four current NFL teams in existence at Heinz History Center. that time were the Chicago (Arizona) Cardinals, Green Bay Packers, MEDIA INFORMATION Dan Rooney has been a member of several NFL committees over Chicago Bears and New York Giants. the past 30-plus years. He has served on the board of directors for One of the great pioneers of the sports world, Art Rooney passed the NFL Trust Fund, NFL Films and the Scheduling Committee. He was away on August 25, 1988, following a stroke at the age of 87. “The appointed chairman of the Expansion Committee in 1973, which Chief”, as he was affectionately known, is enshrined in the Pro Football considered new franchise locations and directed the addition of Hall of Fame and is remembered as one of Pittsburgh’s great people. Seattle and Tampa Bay as expansion teams in 1976. Born on January 27, 1901, in Coultersville, Pa., Art Rooney was In 1976, Rooney was also named chairman of the Negotiating the oldest of Daniel and Margaret Rooney’s nine children. He grew Committee, and in 1982 he contributed to the negotiations for up in Old Allegheny, now known as Pittsburgh’s North Side, and the Collective Bargaining Agreement for the NFL and the Players’ until his death he lived on the North Side, just a short distance Association. -
2012 DI Football Records Book
Award Winners Consensus All-America Selections ....... 2 Special Awards .............................................. 19 First-Team All-Americans Below FBS ... 25 NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship Winners ........................................................ 39 Academic All-America Hall of Fame ............................................... 43 Academic All-Americans by School ..... 44 2 2012 NCAA FOOTBALL RECORDS - CONSENSUS ALL-AMERICA SELECTIONS Consensus All-America Selections In 1950, the National Collegiate Athletic Bureau (the NCAA’s service bureau) of players who received mention on All-America second or third teams, nor compiled the fi rst offi cial comprehensive roster of all-time All-Americans. the numerous others who were selected by newspapers or agencies with The compilation of the All-America roster was supervised by a panel of ana- circulations that were not primarily national and with viewpoints, therefore, lysts working in large part with the historical records contained in the fi les of that were not normally nationwide in scope. the Dr. Baker Football Information Service. The following chart indicates, by year (in left column), which national media The roster consists of only those players who were fi rst-team selections on and organizations selected All-America teams. The headings at the top of one or more of the All-America teams that were selected for the national au- each column refer to the selector (see legend after chart). dience and received nationwide circulation. Not included are the thousands All-America -
The Hustler-&- the Champ
EXCLUSIVE BOOK EXCERPT BD PRESENTS A SNEAK PEEK AT A NEW BOOK By “UNTOLD STORIES” cOLUMNIST R.A. DYER, CHRONICLING THE LIVES OF MINNESOTA FATS AND WILLIE MOSCONI AND HOW THEIR RIVALRY DEFINED POOL. The husTler -&- The Champ THE FUTURE RIVALS FIRST MET AS YOUNG MEN AT FRANKIE MASON’S POOLROOM IN PHILADELPHIA, WHERE RUDOLF WANDERONE — AKA MINNESOTA FATS — CHALLENGED STRAIGHT-AS-AN-ARROW WILLIE MOSCONI TO $50-PER-GAME ONE-POCKET. DYER RECONSTRUCTS THAT FATEFUL MEETING. O HE comes up the steps, strid- papers and the pool magazines, he took billiards. He has never held a job, and ing across wood floors looking fat to the road. And so here he comes, he’s so, exactly and precisely like Willie Sand well fed but no doubt with arrived in Philadelphia, and at his side Mosconi, he has sought refuge in pool- desperation behind a carefree façade. is that other back room player of shady halls. But unlike Willie, Wanderone The Depression then beat down upon repute, Babyface Alton Whitlow, and embraced this life with gusto. Unlike the nation; men were broke, families together they scan the room. Willie, Wanderone never cared about were starving — and maybe Rudolf Suckers, suckers everywhere, they looking like a lowlife scoundrel but Wanderone was too. Sometimes he must think. rather feared being mistaken for a pen- lived at home, sometimes not. He had If they were starving, they never let niless bum. During those days when foraged through the poolhalls of Man- on. If they were one loss away from joblessness defined America, Wan- hattan and Brooklyn and then, when homelessness, they never said. -
When the Nfl Had Character
THE COFFIN CORNER: Vol. 16, No. 1 (1995) WHEN THE NFL HAD CHARACTER By Stanley Grosshandler Two generations of football fans have grown up since the 1953 season, part of the decade called "The Golden Age of the NFL." Younger fans today may find it surprising to learn that the NFL was losing star players back then to the draft (remember the draft?) and to the Canadian Football League. The Korean Conflict had siphoned several top men into the service, including Cleveland tackle Bob Gain, the Cardinals great Ollie Matson, and San Francisco's versatile tackle Bob Toneff. Meanwhile, the Canadian Football League made some inroads by luring a handful north of the border. Among the emmigrants were Cleveland's star end Mac Speedie, the Giants' center-tackle Tex Coulter and defensive end Ray Poole, San Francisco defensive back Jim Cason, and an Eagle receiver named Bud Grant who would return a dozen years later as a coach. Although these and several other well-known players missed the 1953 season, the league still continued to grow in popularity -- due in part to the individual aura that made each team special. Teams then had a their own particular character and each had an identifiable leader. They were not the plastic, look-alike teams who strive today for parity (another name for mediocracy) and play for the field goal. Reviewing those rosters of forty years ago can still produce chills among some "veteran" fans. The Cleveland Browns had the confidence and composure of their coach Paul Brown. They did not have to be told they were winners. -
Oliver Ortman and Charles Ursitti Elected to 2015 BCA Hall of Fame Class
Contact: Mike Panozzo United States Billiard Media Association 312-341-1110 [email protected] Rob Johnson Billiard Congress of America 303-243-5070 [email protected] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Oliver Ortmann and Charles Ursitti Earn Enshrinement in Billiard Congress of America Hall of Fame Broomfield, Colo., August 18, 2015 —Two trailblazers in the pool world have earned election into the Billiard Congress of America Hall of Fame in 2015. Former world champion Oliver Ortmann of Germany and pool promoter/historian Charles Ursitti will be inducted as the 65th and 66th members of the sport’s hall of fame, the United States Billiard Media Association announced today. Ortmann, 48, of Hamburg, will enter the Greatest Players wing of the BCA Hall of Fame, while Ursitti, 68, who was born in New York City and now resides in Florida, will be honored for Meritorious Service. Both will be formally inducted during ceremonies on Oct. 29, 2015, at the Sheraton Norfolk Waterside in Norfolk, Va. One of the most decorated players in Europe, Ortmann led the way for European players in the United States by scoring a shocking win over pool legend Steve Mizerak in the final of the 1989 BCA U.S. Open 14.1 Championship in Chicago. Ortmann went on to win the 1993 BCA U.S. Open, as well as three World Pool-Billiard Association world titles — the 1993 WPA World 9-Ball Championship and the WPA World 14.1 Championship in 2007 and 2010. The fiery Ortmann twice won the International Challenge of Champions (1997 and 2000), and captained Team Europe’s winning Mosconi Cup squad in 2002. -
Intercollegiate Football Researchers Association ™
INTERCOLLEGIATE FOOTBALL RESEARCHERS ASSOCIATION ™ The College Football Historian ™ Expanding the knowledge and information on college football’s unique past—today! ISSN: 1526-233x Vol. 3 No. 1 circa: Feb. 2008 Tex Noel, Editor [email protected] http://www.secsportsfan.com/college-football-association.html With this issue of The College Football who have played this great game Historian…we kick-off our third college football. season! While this is a composite of list of only a select few; we need you’re Something new for TCFH your assistance: If you local paper runs a story or even a paragraph of a former coach or player that By Tex Noel, Executive participated in or with college Director football, regardless if he was inducted into the Hall…please send Time to kick-off the 2010 season; it. no, college football hasn’t started a winter football league; instead it’s Same goes for players and coaches time for the third season for IFRA inducted into school and/or and its monthly newsletter, The conference Halls of Fame, we need College Football Historian. this info as well; or any worthwhile accomplishment. We start this season with the most subscribers ever 174—and new And should your alma mater do members are joining all the time. something or if an IFRA member be To all 174…Thank You!! recognized for something—let us know! While the basic format of TCFH will And should you read or hear of any remain the same; some new features accomplishment such as these: have been added. The Ohio State University hasn’t IFRA’s Bo Carter has compiled a list lost to an Ohio school since a 7-6 of College Football Hall of Famers; defeat to Oberlin in 1921. -
Billiards-Digest-PROOFED.Pdf
APA NATIONAL TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS MOVING ON UP The American Poolplayers Association National Team Championships’ short trip produced big dividends. By Skip Maloney MAZING HOW the scenery can change when you move across the street. After nearly a quarter century based at the now shut- Atered Riviera Hotel & Casino in Las Ve- gas, the American Poolplayers Associa- tion relocated its annual National Team Championships to the nearby Westgate More than 300 tables awaited APA teams at the Westgate Hotel in Las Vegas. Hotel & Casino (formerly the Las Vegas Hilton). The change seemed to do the “There weren’t many hiccups,” said gas for the Nationals before,” said team event plenty of good. Bowman. captain Matthew Leckner. “I advanced “It was fantastic,” said APA’s Mar- In fact, the 2014 National Team to regional (competition) the last three keting Director, Jason Bowman. “Defi- Championships ushered in several sig- years in a row, each year on a different nitely an upgrade. I’d spent nearly a nificant improvements. For the first team. year’s worth of nights at the Riviera, time, competitors could download an “It was my first time as a captain,” he and though there was some sentiment online tournament bracket App to keep added, confessing that a lot of his time about that, the Westgate is just a differ- track of individual schedules and get a during the team’s regular 16-week sea- ent class of hotel; a definite step up.” glimpse of a progress in each division. son was spent “figuring out who was go- The most significant improvement, Also first time, the APA live-streamed ing to show up or not.” Bowman went on to explain, was ad- some of the matches. -
Intercollegiate Football Researchers Association™
INTERCOLLEGIATE FOOTBALL RESEARCHERS ASSOCIATION ™ The College Football Historian ™ Reliving college football’s unique and interesting history—today!! ISSN: 2326-3628 [February 2013… Vol. 1 No. 61] circa: Jan. 2008 Tex Noël, Editor ([email protected]) Website: http://www.secsportsfan.com/college-football-association.html Disclaimer: Not associated with the NCAA, NAIA, NJCAA or their colleges and universities. All content is protected by copyright© by the author. With this issue of The College Football Historian our seventh season of monthly of recalling games and accomplishments of players, teams and accomplishments. The old cliché says: It seems like yesterday…while it has been a number of ‘yesterdays’, it has been quite a ride each month finding or receiving content…then to organize it to see how and where it would be best suited on each page. A special thank you goes to each of other subscribers who receive TCFH each month…this issue will go to a record 563 men and women who share in the interest in preserving college football. One new feature for this year, will not take place until the season is in progress: under the heading of In-Season History. Many times, a coach, player or team would eclipse a mark during the season…and outside of his local area, very few people would know of it. This would be especially true of feats from non-BSD teams. This is where the membership can assist. If you hear of happenings, please send the editor an email. FOOTBALL GEORGRAPHY: WHERE FOOTBALL HAS A PLACE Contact: Andrew McKillop, [email protected] The College Football Historian-2 - THE CHAMPIONSHIP THE STORY OF THE FOOTBALL PROGRAM AT THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FROM 1965-1969 CULMINATING IN THE 1969 ACC CHAMPIONSHIP The game of American Football is in its 144th year. -
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