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Featured articlesWikipedia main page screenshot, evening of December 23, 2015, Central time zone (US). Note featured article of William Wurtenburg in top left hand column. The Wikipedia main page featured William Wurtenburg on December 24, 2015. This was an article I originally created on June 16, 2008. Thanks to all Wikipedia editors including @A Texas Historian:, @Jweiss11:, and others who also helped improve it. The article as it exists now looks so much better than what I made. I created the original article on June 16, 2008 as a part of a campaign to complete articles for every head football coach for United States Naval Academy. Coach Wurtenburg was head coach for the 1894 season and led the team to a record of 4 wins, 1 loss, and 2 ties. Their only loss that year was to Pennsylvania who ended the season as undefeated national champions. As you can tell by visiting the article page now, it has been greatly enhanced to include his coaching at Dartmouth and his time as a player at Yale where he was a part of the 1887 National Championship team, finishing with a record of 9 wins and 0 losses. After coaching, he became an official for college football. Around 1904, Wurtenburg began pursuing a career as a physician. He set up a medical office near his house in New Haven, Connecticut, and became an ear, nose and throat specialist where he lived until his death in 1957. It's truly rewarding to see an article that I started end up on the Wikipedia main page! Woo-hoo!!! Current projectsHere's a list of my current active projects. Feel free to pitch in! Current project proposalCounties
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Essay ideas (maybe)College FootballJerry Kill (born August 24, 1961 in Cheney, Kansas) is the current head football coach at the University of Minnesota, taking the position for the 2011 season. Kill earned a Bachelor's Degree in Education with a minor in Biology from Southwestern College in 1982 where he played under coaches Phil Hower and Dennis Franchione. He was raised in a "Working class family" and became the first member of his family to graduate from college. Kansas
The 1890 Kansas vs. Baker football game was an American college football game between the Kansas Jayhawks football team of the University of Kansas and the Baker Wildcats football team of Baker University played on November 22, 1890 in Baldwin City, Kansas. The game ended with Baker winning 22–9.[1] It was the first college football game played in the state of Kansas.[2] Other fun stuffLlewellyn Watts III was a baseball player and coach in the United States. He played professionally as a pitcher for the St. Louis Browns organization and wrote a book titled The Fine Art of Baseball that was published in 1964. Watts completed two seasons of play in the minor leagues before pitching for the Browns. He later became a baseball coach, and teacher. He was coach and mentor to Major League players Erik Hanson and Brian Meyer. Before playing baseball professionally, Watts served aboard the USS Rich (DE-695) during World War II for the United States Navy. Read more... Collaborate...Daniel M. Frasier was the 25th head college football coach for the Geneva College Golden Tornadoes located in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania and he held that position for three seasons, from 1969 until 1971.[3] His coaching record at Geneva was 9 wins, 16 losses, and 1 ties. As of completion of the 2007 season, this ranks him 16th at Geneva in total wins and 24th at Geneva in winning percentage (0.365)..[4] Frasier engineered a turaround of the program, when the football team went to what was considered a "laughing stock of the district" to a 8-0 start in 1971 (some records show a 7-0 start and losing the last two games[5]).[6] Selected picture
Did You Know?A fact from Robert Park (football coach) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? column on August 23, 2008. Wikibooks
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