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Ohio State University
The intercollegiate sports teams of Ohio State
University are known as the "Buckeyes". They are so-called due to the
Buckeye which is the state tree. The Ohio State teams participate in the NCAA's Division I in all sports
apart from football. For the game of football they are placed in Division I-A Football Bowl Subdivision.
The intercollegiate
 sports
teams operate in the Big Ten Conference for the majority of their sports. The
male hockey program plays in the Central Collegiate Hockey Association and the
female hockey program plays in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association.
The Ohio State University colors are scarlet and gray
and
were decided upon by a committee of three students who were Curtis C. Howard, Harwood
R. Pool, and Alice Townshend. This happened prior to the school's first graduation ceremony in
eighteen-seventy-eight. The trio's initial recommendation was for orange and black but
when they found that Princeton had already claimed these colors,
the good people of the committee changed
their recommendation to scarlet and gray.
 During the 2005
and 2006 academic year Ohio State University
became the first school in the Big Ten to be the conference champions in
football, men's basketball, and women's basketball. They managed this again during the
2006 and 2007 academic year on February 25th, 2007 when the men's basketball team
beat Wisconsin in the Big Ten's first 1 versus 2 basketball game. The
Ohio State University mascot is that of Brutus
Buckeye.
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Florida Gators
The Florida Gators is the
overall name for
the every one of the
intercollegiate athletic teams that play for the University
of Florida in Gainesville, Florida. There are eight men's
athletic teams and eleven women's teams that play in the
Eastern Division of the South-eastern Conference in NCAA
Division I. All together the teams have won the South-eastern
Conference All-Sports Trophy every single year since its
beginnings.
The Florida Gators have also been in the top ten of the
American All
Sports rankings every year for the past twenty years.
The Florida Gators'
greatest rivals
right now are the Florida State Seminoles, the Georgia
Bulldogs and the Tennessee Volunteers. Florida has also been rivals in times
gone by with the Auburn Tigers and Miami Hurricanes, but
these have diminished during recent years. In the majority of the sports
currently played at the SEC, Florida has definitely been the
college with the most dominance in the league.
The athletic
department of Florida Gators is
managed by the University Athletic
Association. This department is a private organization which
gives around $73 million each year to the campus sports teams and
facilities. For over fifteen years, Jeremy Foley has held
the position of the Gators' athletic director of the Gators.
All the athletic teams have
facilities for competition on the university campus. These
are Ben Hill Griffin
Stadium at Florida Field for football, the Stephen C.
O'Connell Center for men’s and women’s basketball and also the
women's volleyball and gymnastics and McKethan Stadium for
baseball. The UAA maintains a few aircraft based at the
Gainesville Regional Airport. These include a Cessna Citation
and a Beechcraft King Air and exist to support the
University's athletic endeavors.
If you are a fan of
Florida Gators, then you are at the right place for Florida
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Notre Dame University
North American football did not have a
great start at
the University of Notre Dame - and you can get Notre Dame
Apparel right here. In their initial game on
November 23, eighteen-eighty-seven the Irish lost to Michigan by
8–0. Their initial win came in the final game of the
eighteen-eighty-eight season when the Fightin' Irish beat Harvard Prep by
20–0. At the end of the eighteen-eighty-eight season they had a record of 1–3
with all three losses being at the hands of Michigan by a
combined score of 43–9. Between eighteen-eighty-seven and
eighteen-eighty-nine Notre Dame Fightin' Irish
compiled a record of 31 wins, 15 losses, and 4 ties against
a great variety of opponents ranging from local high
school teams to other schools.
At the start of the 20th century college football began
to increase in popularity and became more standardized with
the introduction of the Intercollegiate Athletic Association
of the United States (IAAUS) in 1906. That organization
would become the NCAA in 1910. Notre Dame carried on with its
success during this period and managed their first win
over Michigan in 1909 by 11–3 after which Michigan would not
compete against Notre Dame until 33 years later. By
the finish of the 1912 season the Fightin' Irish had gained a record of 108
wins, 31 losses, and 13 ties.
 Jesse Harper was promoted to head coach in 1913 and stayed until
retirement in 1917. During his tenure the the Fightin' Irish
started competing in only intercollegiate games and posted a record of 34
wins, 5 losses, and 1 tie. This era would also mark the
start of the rivalry with Army and the continuation of
rivalries with Michigan State.
In 1913, Notre Dame the Fightin' Irish sprang into the
American consciousness
and transformed the collegiate game in a just one
contest. In an effort to gain respect for a regionally
successful but small-time Midwestern football program,
Jesse Harper scheduled games in his first season with the
powerful Texas, Penn State, and Army. On November 1,
1913, the Notre Dame squad stunned the Black Knights of the
Hudson 35-13 in a game played at West Point. Led by
quarterback Charlie "Gus" Dorais and end (soon to be
legendary future coach) Knute Rockne, the Notre Dame team
launched against
the Cadets with an offense that featured both the legendary running game but also long and accurate downfield
forward passes from Dorais to Rockne. Though this game has
been incorrectly credited as the "invention of the forward pass", it
was actually the first major contest in which a less
sizeable team
with a modern and very balanced offense managed to beat a
bigger and more
experienced team that depended on the running game by
itself.
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