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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 FootballJake Trotter is a sports columnist and author. He currently writes for ESPN and tends to focus on the University of Oklahoma Sooners athletic programs and the Big 12 Conference. He is considered an expert on these topics by many publications and news sources including the Dallas Morning News,[1] WIBW-TV in Topeka, Kansas,[2] WVOC 560 The Team AM Sports Radio in Columbia, South Carolina,[3] KFOR-TV in Oklahoma City,[4] and The Cincinnati Enquirer.[5] Kansas![]() James Manney Hagaman 1830 - January 18, 1904 was a lawyer, land agent, newspaper editor, and the founder of Concordia, Kansas. He and his wife settled in what is now Cloud County in 1860. In addition to founding the town of Concordia, he is credited with leading the movement to separate what was then Shirley Township from Washington County in 1866. In 1866, the people of Shirley Township sent Hagaman to Kansas Governor Samuel J. Crawford with the petition requesting the right to organize as a county. The governor granted permission and Shirley Township became Shirley County (later "Cloud" County). Hagaman was elected county clerk and promptly became a candidate to be the first to represent Shirley County in the Kansas House of Representatives, losing to John B. Rupe. In 1868, he ran again for the Kansas House and this time won, barely defeating a man named Donoho.[6] He later served two terms as Mayor of Concordia from 1878-1880 and also served five terms on the city council. As Hagaman rose to political power in the state of Kansas, he faced political opposition in the town of Clyde, Kansas from several sources. In her book on the history of Concordia, Janet Pease Emery wrote:
Other fun stuffRay Murphy, Jr. (October 4, 1946 Joplin, Missouri[7] - July 20, 2010 Tulsa, Oklahoma[8]) was an all-American collegiate wrestler at Oklahoma State University. He is the recipient of the 1998 Medal of Courage from the National Wrestling Hall of Fame.[9] Murphy's collegiate wrestling career included two appearances in the NCAA national tournament in 1968 and 1969 with the OSU Cowboys. He placed fifth in the 137 pound weight class and second in the 145 pound weight class,[10][11] respectively. He was hopeful to compete in the 1972 Olympics. On April 11, 1970, Ray Murphy’s life changed forever while wrestling for the OSU Cowboys. Murphy was thrown during a match and landed directly on his head, paralyzing him from the neck down. Since that day, Ray has been gripped by paralysis and still requires mechanical assistance in breathing. Ray Murphy has been actively involved in the development of sip-and-puff technology—a method where a person can sip and puff in a straw in code to send commands to mechanical devices.[12] In Ray Murphy's case, he can use sip-and-puff technology to adjust lights in a room, change channels on a television, type on a keyboard, and control his wheelchair. Because of the importance of sip-and-puff technology, which Ray uses to operate his computer and other amenities, he has become a national leader in research of new additions to this technique. He also has been employed as a computer programmer by ConocoPhillips and other corporations to advance this and other handicapped-assisting technologies. Collaborate...Frank Armin was the fourth football coach for the Southwestern College Moundbuilders in Winfield, Kansas and held that position for the 1908 season. His coaching record at Southwestern was 3 wins, 4 losses, and 0 ties. This ranks him 25th at Southwestern in terms of total wins and 20th at Southwestern in terms of total winning percentage (as of completion of the 2007 season).[13] Armin was also the basketball coach at Southwestern for the 1908-1909 season. He was the first basketball coach on record for the school, and the team produced six wins and three losses.[14] Selected pictureConcordia, Kansas Hood Park Did 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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