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Swarthmore College is a private liberal arts college in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1864, with its first classes held in 1869, Swarthmore is one of the earliest coeducational colleges in the United States. It was established as a college under the Religious Society of Friends. By 1906, Swarthmore had dropped its religious affiliation and officially became non-sectarian.
The Centennial Conference is an intercollegiate athletic conference which competes in the NCAA's Division III. Chartered member teams are located in Maryland and Pennsylvania; associate members are also located in New York and Virginia.
Manlius is a town to the east of Syracuse in Onondaga County. As of the 2020 Census, the population was 33,712, making it the third largest suburb in metropolitan Syracuse. In 2005, the town was ranked 98th on CNN's list of Best Places to Live.
The Manlius Pebble Hill School (MPH) is a secular, coeducational, independent, pre-K through 12 school in DeWitt, New York. The school is the result of a merger in 1970 between The Manlius School, founded in 1869, and the Pebble Hill School, established in 1926. MPH marked its 150th anniversary in 2019. MPH is accredited by the New York State Association of Independent Schools, of which it is a founding member, and is also a member of the National Association of Independent Schools.
William Winston Roper was an American football, basketball, and baseball player and coach. He served as the head football coach at the Virginia Military Institute (1903–1904), Princeton University, the University of Missouri (1909), and Swarthmore College (1915–1916), compiling a career college football record of 112–38–18. Roper's Princeton Tigers football teams of 1906, 1911, 1920, and 1922 have been recognized as national champions. His 89 wins are the most of any coach in the history of the program. Roper was also the head basketball coach at Princeton for one season in 1902–03, tallying a mark of 8–7. Roper played football as an end, basketball, and baseball as an outfielder at Princeton, from which he graduated in 1902. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1951.
The 1906 college football season was the first in which the forward pass was permitted. Although there was no clear cut national championship, there were two teams that had won all nine of their games as the 1906 season drew to a close, the Princeton Tigers and the Yale Bulldogs, and on November 17, 1906, they played to a 0–0 tie. St. Louis University finished at 11–0–0. The Helms Athletic Foundation, founded in 1936, declared retroactively that Princeton had been the best college football team of 1906. Other selectors recognized Yale as the national champions for 1906.
Swarthmore High School was a four-year public high school in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania serving the Boroughs of Swarthmore and Rutledge.
George Haydock Brooke was an American college football player and coach. He played football as a fullback at Swarthmore College from 1889 to 1892 and at the University of Pennsylvania from 1893 to 1895. Brooke served as the head football coach at Stanford University (1897), Swarthmore (1900–1912), and Penn (1913–1915), compiling a career coaching record of 90–46–10. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a player in 1969.
Robert Wallace "Tiny" Maxwell was a professional football player and referee. He was also a sports editor with the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
Thomas Dudley Shepherd was an American college football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts in 1914, Baker University in Baldwin City, Kansas in 1915, and Trinity College of in Hartford, Connecticut in 1919, compiling a career coaching record of 8–13–2.
Robert Grant Torrey was an American football player and coach. He played center and was selected as the captain of the University of Pennsylvania's unbeaten teams of 1904 and 1905. When the Quakers went 12–0 in 1904, only Swarthmore was able to score against them. Torrey was considered one of the best linemen in 1905 and later won All-American honors. He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1971.
The Swarthmore Garnet Tide represented Swarthmore College in the sport of college football. Swarthmore was the 15th school to play football.
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Carl Barus was an American physicist and the maternal great-uncle of the American novelist Kurt Vonnegut.
Albert Paxson Hall Jr. was an American college football coach from West Chester, Pennsylvania. He served as the head football coach at Wake Forest University for one season in 1908, compiling a record of 1–4. He was an alumnus of the University of Pennsylvania and Swarthmore College.
Alexander Joseph Gersbach is an Australian professional soccer player who plays as a left-back for Allsvenskan club Kalmar FF, and the Australia national team.
Millard P. Robinson Sr. was a minor league baseball player and high school and college American football coach. He served as the head football coach at Swarthmore High School in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania from 1949 to 1972 and at Swarthmore College in 1973.
Keith Gersbach (1924-2015) nicknamed "The Colonel" was an Australian rugby league footballer who played in the 1940s. He played for Canterbury-Bankstown and Parramatta as a winger.
The 1910 Delaware football team was an American football team that represented Delaware College as an independent during the 1910 college football season. In its third season under head coach William McAvoy, the team compiled a 1–2–2 record and was outscored by a total of 49 to 19. Carl A. Taylor was the team captain. The team played its home games in Newark, Delaware.
The Swarthmore football team represented Swarthmore College in American football. Swarthmore was the 15th oldest college football program in the United States. The football program started in 1878 with a game against Penn. The program played no more than two games per year until 1885 when it played a six-game schedule. There was no team in 1880 and 1881. The team did not hire a coach until 1888 when Jacob K. Shell began his 11-year tenure as head coach. This article covers the program's early years prior to the hiring of Shell as the school's first head football coach.
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