Thomas Woodrow Wilson was an American politician and academic who served as the 28th president of the United States from 1913 to 1921. A member of the Democratic Party, Wilson served as the president of Princeton University and as the governor of New Jersey before winning the 1912 presidential election. As president, Wilson changed the nation's economic policies and led the United States into World War I in 1917. He was the leading architect of the League of Nations, and his progressive stance on foreign policy came to be known as Wilsonianism.
The Princeton School of Public and International Affairs is a professional public policy school at Princeton University. The school provides an array of comprehensive coursework in the fields of international development, foreign policy, science and technology, and economics and finance through its undergraduate (AB) degrees, graduate Master of Public Affairs (MPA), Master of Public Policy (MPP), and PhD degrees.
Thomas Watt Gregory was an American politician and lawyer. He was a progressive and attorney who served as US Attorney General from 1914 to 1919 under US President Woodrow Wilson.
First College, the first of Princeton University's six residential colleges, was developed in the late 1950s when a group of students formed the Woodrow Wilson Lodge as an alternative to the eating clubs. The Woodrow Wilson Lodge members originally met and dined in Madison Hall, which is now part of John D. Rockefeller III College. Inspired by the ideas of Woodrow Wilson, president of Princeton from 1902–1910, the members advocated a more thorough integration of academic, social and residential life on campus.
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.
Robert Walter "Whirlwind" Johnson was an American physician, college football player and coach, and founder of the American Tennis Association Junior Development Program for African-American youths, where he coached and fostered the careers of Arthur Ashe and Althea Gibson.
Princeton University was founded in Elizabeth, New Jersey, in 1746 as the College of New Jersey, shortly before moving into the newly built Nassau Hall in Princeton. In 1783, for about four months Nassau Hall hosted the United States Congress, and many of the students went on to become leaders of the young republic.
David Milton "Pete" Balliet was an American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Auburn University for one game in February 1893, at Purdue University from 1893 to 1895 and again in 1901, and at Washington and Lee University from 1903 to 1904, compiling a career college football record of 30–15–2. Balliet played as a center at Lehigh University and Princeton University.
Leo F. Prendergast was an American football player and coach of football and basketball. He served as the head football coach at Lehigh University from 1943 to 1945, compiling a record of 3–15–1. P Prendergast was also head basketball coach at Lehigh from 1943 to 1946, tallying a mark of 9–41.
James J. Reed was an American wrestling, football, and soccer player and coach. He served as head coach of the United States men's national soccer team from 1959 until 1961, finishing with a record of 0–3–1.
The Woodrow Wilson Foundation was an educational non-profit created in 1921, organized under the laws of New York, for the "perpetuation of Wilson's ideals" via periodic grants to worthy groups and individuals. Franklin D. Roosevelt was the chair of the group's governing National Committee, coordinating fundraising activity of parallel groups in each of the 48 states.
The Lafayette Leopards football program represents Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania in college football. One of the oldest college football programs in the United States, Lafayette currently plays in the Patriot League at the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision level.
Jessie Woodrow Sayre was a daughter of US President Woodrow Wilson and Ellen Louise Axson. She was a political activist, worked for women's suffrage, social issues, to promote her father's call for the creation of the League of Nations, and was significant in the Massachusetts Democratic Party during the 1920s.
William S. Taylor was an American college football coach and athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Samuel Huston College in Austin, Texas from 1926 to 1927, Morgan College—now known as Morgan State University—in 1928, Lincoln University in Oxford, Pennsylvania from 1929 to 1931, and Arkansas Agricultural, Mechanical & Normal College —now known as the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff—from 1937 to 1940. Taylor was also the athletic director at Lincoln from 1929 to 1932.
The 1900 Texas Longhorns football team represented the University of Texas at Austin in the 1900 college football season. In their first year under head coach Samuel Huston Thompson, the Longhorns compiled an undefeated 6–0 and outscored opponents by a collective total of 113 to 13.
Samuel Barnett Kemp was a justice of the Hawaii Supreme Court from March 7, 1918 to April 17, 1922, and again as chief justice from June 20, 1941 to June 30, 1950.
The 1923 Bucknell Bison football team was an American football team that represented Bucknell University as an independent during the 1923 college football season. In its fifth and final season under head coach Pete Reynolds, the team compiled a 4–4–1 record.
The 1898 Lehigh football team was an American football team that represented Lehigh University as an independent during the 1898 college football season. In its first season under head coach Samuel Huston Thompson, the team compiled a 3–6–1 record and was outscored by a total of 106 to 49.
The 1899 Lehigh football team was an American football team that represented Lehigh University as an independent during the 1899 college football season. In its second and final season under head coach Samuel Huston Thompson, the team compiled a 2–9 record and was outscored by a total of 144 to 60.
The 1923 Lehigh Brown and White football team was an American football team that represented Lehigh University as an independent during the 1923 college football season. In its second season under head coach James A. Baldwin, the team compiled a 6–2–1 record and outscored opponents by a total of 107 to 57. The team played its home games at Taylor Stadium in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
