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Featured articlesFront Page Feature The 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 FootballWillis S. “Billy” Bates was an American football and basketball coach in the United States. He served as the head football coach at Auburn University (1903), Fairmount College, now known as Wichita State University, (1905–1908), and Southwestern College in Kansas (1914–1925), compiling a career record of 84–52–12. He also coached basketball at Fairmount (1905–1908) and Southwestern (1914–1926), tallying a career mark of 179–79. 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 stuff The Trailside Center is a tourist center, museum, and community facility in Kansas City, Missouri. Items on display include exhibits of Civil War items related to the Battle of Westport as well as items related to the Santa Fe, Oregon, and California trails.[6] The center is staffed by volunteers[7]. Collaborate… Graydon Long (March 11, 1889–September 1966) was an American football coach and official in the United States. Long played high school football at West high School in Rochester, New York as a member of the class of 1908.[8] The 1906 team concluded an undefeated season and the 1907 team produced solid results as well.[9] Long was the seventh head college football coach for the Geneva College Golden Tornadoes[10] located in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania and he held that position for the 1912 season. His coaching record at Geneva was 3 wins, 4 losses, and 0 ties. As of completion of the 2007 season, this ranks him 25th at Geneva in total wins and 20th at Geneva in winning percentage (0.429).[11] He also coached the local high school football team that same year.[12] Selected pictureDid You Know?Did you know that Tony Lombardi, who took over when Rick Rasnick was fired, was the head coach of the Eastern Michigan Eagles football team for just five days? Wikibooks
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