The Abilene Eagles were a West Texas League minor league baseball team based in Abilene, Texas, United States. They existed from 1920 to 1922, [1] winning the league championship in both 1920 and 1921 under managers Bugs Young and Ed Kizziar (1920) and Grady White and Hub Northen (1921). They finished in sixth place in 1922. The league folded following the 1922 season, and the Eagles followed suit.[ citation needed ]
Future major leaguer Fred Johnson played for the Eagles.[ citation needed ]
Hayes Football Club was an English association football club based in Hayes, Middlesex.
The Big State League was a mid-level, Class B level circuit in American minor league baseball that played for 11 seasons, from 1947 through 1957. Its member clubs were exclusively based in Texas. The Corpus Christi Clippers (1955-1956), Texarkana Bears and Wichita Falls Spudders each won two league championships.
The 1921–22 Prima Divisione season was won by Pro Vercelli.
Abilene High School is a public high school located in Abilene, Texas. AHS is classified as a Division 5A school and is part of the Abilene Independent School District. Abilene High School is the name given to three different schools in the past 150 years. The first Abilene High was an old warehouse. Not long after that, the school was moved to what was the former Lincoln Middle School. In 1955, Abilene High was moved to its current location at N 6th and Mockingbird. Its main rival in sports is Cooper High School. The Abilene High Marching Band is accepted to be the oldest marching band in Texas. In 2011, the school was rated "Academically Acceptable" by the Texas Education Agency.
The San Antonio Bears were a minor league baseball team located in San Antonio, Texas. The Bears played in the Texas League from 1920 through 1928. Their home stadium was League Park.
Charles Peter Mathys was an American professional football player. He played running back for one season (1920-1921) for the Hammond Pros and Quarterback, Kicker, and Punt Returner for five seasons (1922-1926) for the Green Bay Packers in the National Football League.
Samuel Douglas Hale was an American baseball player and manager. He played professional baseball from 1917 to 1941, including 10 years in Major League Baseball as a third baseman for the Detroit Tigers (1920–1921), Philadelphia Athletics (1923–1929), and St. Louis Browns (1930). Hale compiled a lifetime batting average of .302 with 30 home runs and 393 runs batted in and was a member of the Philadelphia Athletics team that won the 1929 World Series. He also served as a player-manager in the West Texas–New Mexico League with the Midland Cowboys (1939–1940), Pampa Oilers (1941), and Wichita Falls Spudders (1941).
Wilbur Higby was an American actor of the silent era. He appeared in more than 70 films between 1914 and 1934.
Carrie Clark Ward was an American actress of the silent era.
Ove Claes Johansson is a former American football placekicker and the current holder of the record for the longest field goal ever kicked during an American football game, at 69 yards (63 m), for Abilene Christian University in their October 16, 1976 victory over East Texas State. Johansson is the oldest player to be drafted in the NFL Draft, being 28 years, 281 days old when he was selected in the 12th round of the 1977 NFL Draft by the Houston Oilers.
Bryan Sewell Watson Jones was an American football coach. He was the second head football coach at Abilene Christian University in Abilene, Texas and he held that position for the 1920 season. His coaching record at Abilene Christian was 4–0–1.
Russell Austin Lewis was an American football coach and educator. He was the third head football coach at Abilene Christian University in Abilene, Texas and he held that position for the 1921 season. His coaching record at Abilene Christian was 2–5.
The Galveston Pirates were a Texas League baseball team based in Galveston, Texas, United States that existed from 1912 to 1917 and from 1919 to 1921.
The West Texas League was a Class D level minor league baseball league that existed from 1920 to 1922 and from 1928 to 1929.
Jesse Franklin Winters, nicknamed "Buck" and "T-Bone", was an American right-handed Major League Baseball pitcher who played for the New York Giants and the Philadelphia Phillies from 1919 to 1923. He also played in the minor leagues until 1925 for the Kansas City Blues, Toronto Maple Leafs, Hartford Senators, Portland Beavers and Wichita Falls Spudders. He was listed during his playing career as 6' 1" and 165 pounds.
The Texas–Oklahoma League was a Minor League Baseball Class-D circuit that operated between 1911 and 1922. The league formed twice, the first began in 1911 and finished in 1914, while the second was active in 1921 and 1922. League franchises were based in Oklahoma and Texas.
Thomas Henry Gee, Jr. was an American baseball catcher in the Negro leagues.
Richard Raymond Gee was an American baseball catcher in the Negro leagues.
Hyder Edward Rollins was an American scholar and English professor. He was a prolific author of articles and books on Elizabethan poetry, broadside ballads, and Romantic poets. He was an internationally recognized scholar on John Keats, and he edited the authoritative two-volume edition of Keats' letters.
Edmund Burns was an American actor. He was best known for his films of the silent 1920s, particularly The Princess from Hoboken (1927), Made for Love (1926), and After the Fog (1929), although he continued acting in films until 1936. Burn's first film appearance was an uncredited role as an extra in The Birth of a Nation (1915). Other films include The Country Kid (1923), The Farmer from Texas (1925), Ransom (1928), The Adorable Outcast (1928), Hard to Get (1929), The Shadow of the Eagle (1932), Hollywood Boulevard (1936), and his last film, Charles Barton's Murder with Pictures (1936) for Paramount Pictures. He was sometimes billed as Edward Burns.