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Featured articlesFront Page FeatureThe 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!!! Media of the DayA video I posted was declared Wikimedia's "Media of the Day" on September 17, 2015. Watch closely as the cheese monger at Whole Foods Market in Overland Park, Kansas cracks open a wheel of Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese on March 9, 2013 (part of a 2013 world record attempt by Whole Foods Market). I recorded this video on March 9, 2013 and posted it the next day. It was a recording of one location where Whole Foods Market was attempting (and I believe succeeded) in setting a world record for the most number of Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese at the same time. They were attempting this feat by using multiple stores and locations across their service footprint. The best part was that we all got to sample! Current projectsHere's a list of my current active projects. Feel free to pitch in! Football coaches
Previous project proposalCollege FootballAmerican football was a demonstration sport at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. On the evening of August 8, 1932, seniors from three Western universities (Cal, Stanford, and USC) were matched against those from the East Coast's "Big Three" (Harvard, Yale, and Princeton). In front of 60,000 spectators at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, the West team won by a score of 7–6. All-American Gaius "Gus" Shaver from USC was the captain of the West team and the game's leading rusher with 145 yards on 16 attempts. The football game at the 1932 Summer Olympics, combined with a similar demonstration game at 1933 World's Fair, led to the College All-Star Game which was an important factor in the growth of professional football in the United States. (Full article...) KansasBill Dotson is a former track and field athlete from the University of Kansas. He was the seventh person in the United States to break the Four minute mile barrier with a time of 3:59.0 on June 23, 1962.[1] In 2016 he was selected for inclusion in the Kansas Sports Hall of Fame.[2] Dotson graduated from Concordia High School in 1958, where as an athlete he broke Glenn Cunningham's mile record that had stood for 28 years. After high school, Dotson enrolled at the University of Kansas and went on to become a two-time All-American. He won five Big Eight Conference track titles (three indoor titles and two outdoor) and won the Big Eight Conference title in cross country in 1961. Dotson set three American records in the mile during his career.[3] At the 1963 Chicago Daily News Invitational, he be came the fourth man in the world to run a mile under four minutes on an indoor track.[4] During his running career, he was regularly listed as one of the top middle-distance runners in the United States.[5] Other fun stuffJohn H. Eastwood (May 12, 1911–February 13, 2007) was an author, seminary professor, army chaplain, and church pastor in the United States. He grew up in rural Nebraska and earned a Doctor of Divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1941.[6] He served in the United States Army 464th Bombardment Group during World War II.[7] His final position was as the pastor of Covenant Presbyterian Church in Hammond, Indiana,[8] a church that he led to triple in size during his leadership.[9] Collaborate...Earl Craven was a college football player, coach, and administrator in the United States. He was president of the NAIA Coaches Association from 1957 through 1959.[10] Craven entered Pacific College (now called George Fox University) in Newberg, Oregon during the fall of 1941. His time in college was interrupted by military service in World War II from 1943-1946, but he returned to Pacific and was awarded letteres in basketball, baseball and football. Craven earned a degree in psychology and education in 1949. Craven coached at Friends, Taylor,William Penn, and George Fox. Selected pictureConcordia, Kansas Main Street 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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