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Quinnipiac University is a private university in Hamden, Connecticut. The university grants undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees. It also hosts the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute.
{{Infobox venue | stadium_name = Polo Grounds | nickname = "The Bathtub" | image = No Known Restrictions Polo Grounds during World Series Game, 1913 from the Bain Collection (LOC) (434431507).jpg | image_upright = 1.4 | caption = Polo Grounds IV during the 1913 World Series
(New York Giants and Philadelphia Athletics)
(below) Site of the original Polo Grounds, 1876–1888, between 110th and 112th Street, Manhattan | location = bounded by West 155th Street, Frederick Douglass Blvd. and Harlem River Drive in Washington Heights, Manhattan, New York City | coordinates = 40.8252°N 73.9358°W (1876–1889)
40.8308°N 73.9375°W (1890–1963) | broke_ground = 1890 | opened = April 19, 1890 | renovated = June 28, 1911 | expanded = 1923 | closed = December 14, 1963 | demolished = April 10, 1964 | owner = New York Giants | operator = New York Giants | surface = Grass | construction_cost = | architect = Henry B. Herts | former_names = Brotherhood Park
Brush Stadium (1911–1919) | tenants = New York Giants (PL) (1890)
New York Giants (NL) (1891–1957)
New York Giants (ALPF) (1894)
New York Yankees (AL) (1913–1922)
New York Mets (NL) (1962–1963)
New York Brickley Giants (NFL) (1921)
New York Giants (NFL) (1925–1955)
Columbia Lions football (NCAA) (1900–1922)
New York Nationals (ASL) (1927-1930)
Fordham Rams football (NCAA)
New York Giants (ASL) (1930-1932)
New York Black Yankees New York Cubans (NNL) (1939-1950)|>[[ />New York Bulldogs (NFL) (1949)
New York Titans/Jets (AFL) (1960–1963)
Gotham Bowl (NCAA) (1961) | seating_capacity = 34,000 (1911)
55,000 (1923) | dimensions = Left Field: 279 ft
Left-Center: 450 ft
Center Field: 483 ft
Right-Center: 449 ft
Right Field: 258 ft }} The Polo Grounds was the name of three stadiums in Upper Manhattan, New York City, used mainly for professional baseball and American football from 1880 through 1963. The original Polo Grounds, opened in 1876 and demolished in 1889, was built for the sport of polo. Bound on the south and north by 110th and 112th streets and on the east and west by Fifth and Sixth (Lenox) avenues, just north of Central Park, it was converted to a baseball stadium when leased by the New York Metropolitans in 1880.
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The Cullman-Heyman Tennis Center is an 8-court indoor intercollegiate tennis facility and outdoor stadium located on the campus of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. The Cullman-Heyman Tennis Center is part of the Yale University tennis complex which consists of 17 outdoor and 8 indoor DecoTurf hardcourts. Across Yale Avenue from the Yale Tennis Complex is the Connecticut Tennis Center Stadium, which hosted men's and women's professional tennis tournaments, hosted its last WTA tournament in 2018. In 2019 approval was given to convert the stadium into a concert venue. The outdoor stadium was built in 1991 for the Volvo Tennis Championships, and by 2009 it had seats for 15,000 spectators. The current capacity of the Connecticut Tennis Center Stadium is around 15,000, making it the third largest tennis venue in the United States and one of the largest in the world by capacity, behind the French Open's Roland Garros Stadium. The Cullman-Heyman Tennis Center is located at 279 Derby Avenue, West Haven, CT 06516. It is one of the nicest indoor collegiate tennis facilities in the country. The facility has a master scoreboard and there are HD video cameras on every court that support streaming. All eight courts also have individual scoreboards.
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The 1892 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1892 college football season. In its fifth and final season under head coach Walter Camp, the team finished with a 13–0 record and outscored opponents by a total of 429 to 0. Mike Murphy was the team's trainer. The team is regarded as the 1892 national champion, having been selected retrospectively as such by the Billingsley Report, Helms Athletic Foundation, Houlgate System, National Championship Foundation, and Parke H. Davis. Yale's 1892 season was part of a 37-game winning streak that began with the final game of the 1890 season and stopped at the end of the 1893 season.
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- 1 2 3 Ed Stannard, Photography exhibit reveals 'lost New Haven' Archived 2012-03-06 at the Wayback Machine , The New Haven Register, Sunday, February 8, 2009
- ↑ Clarence Deming and Henry Walcott Farnam (1915), Yale Yesterday , Yale University Press