High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1927 Pittsburgh Pirates season was a season in American baseball. That year, the Pirates won the National League pennant, which was their second in three years and their last until 1960. The team included five future Hall of Famers: Paul Waner, Lloyd Waner, Pie Traynor, Kiki Cuyler, and 20-year-old rookie Joe Cronin (who played just 12 games).
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1928 college football season had the USC Trojans recognized as champions under the Dickinson System, but the Rose Bowl was contested between the #2 and #3 teams, California and Georgia Tech. The game was decided by a safety scored by Roy "Wrong Way" Riegels, which gave Georgia Tech an 8-7 win.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1928 Winter Olympics, officially known as the II Olympic Winter Games, were a winter multi-sport event which was celebrated February 11–19, 1928 in St. Moritz, Switzerland. The 1928 Games were the first true Winter Olympics held on its own as they were not in conjunction with a Summer Olympics. The preceding 1924 Games were retroactively renamed the inaugural Winter Olympics, though they had been in fact part of the 1924 Summer Olympics. All preceding Winter Events of the Olympic Games were the winter sports part of the schedule of the Summer Games, and not held as a separate Winter Games. These games also replaced the now redundant Nordic Games, that were held quadrennially since early...
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation`s poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation`s poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1930 college football season saw Notre Dame repeat as national champion under the Dickinson system, and a post-season Rose Bowl matchup between two unbeaten (9-0-0) teams, Washington State and Alabama, ranked #2 and #3, respectively. Alabama won the Pasadena contest, 24-0.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation`s poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation`s poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1931 college football season saw the USC Trojans win the Knute Rockne Memorial Trophy as national champion under the Dickinson system. Rockne, who had coached Notre Dame to a championship in 1930, had been killed in a plane crash on March 31, 1931. For the first time, the champion under the Dickinson system also played in a postseason game. The Rose Bowl, promoted as an unofficial championship matchup between the best teams of East and West, matched USC and Tulane, #1 and #2 in the Dickinson ratings. USC won, 21-12. Also in 1931 Parke Davis through research, and recognized by the NCAA, declared that Purdue and Pittsburgh were National Champions. Major conferences that existed in 1931 were...
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation`s poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1932 college football season saw the Michigan Wolverines win the Knute Rockne Memorial Trophy as national champion under the Dickinson system. Because the "Big Nine" conference didn`t permit its teams to play in the postseason, however, the Wolverines were not able to accept a bid to the Rose Bowl. As such, the Pasadena game matched the #2 and #3 teams, USC and Pittsburgh, with the USC Trojans winning the East-West matchup 35-0.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1933 double eagle (United States 20-dollar gold coin) currently holds the record for the highest price paid at auction for a single U.S. coin when it was purchased for US$7.59 million. 445,500 specimens of this Saint-Gaudens Double Eagle were minted in 1933, the last year of production for the Double Eagle, but no specimens ever officially circulated and nearly all were melted down, due to the discontinuance of the domestic gold standard in 1933.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1933 college football season saw the Michigan Wolverines repeat as winners of the Knute Rockne Memorial Trophy as national champion under the Dickinson system. Thirteen members of the old Southern Conference split off in 1933 to form the Southeastern Conference (SEC). The ten Southern teams that remained behind would later (1953) constitute the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC). Other major conferences that existed in 1933 were the Western Conference(today`s Big Ten), the Pacific Coast Conference (now the Pac-10), the Big Six (later the Big 8)and the Southwest Conference, many of whom would later make up the Big Twelve. After several years of matching two of the nation`s best teams against...
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation`s poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1934 college football season saw the addition of not one, but two New Year`s Day football games to rival the venerable Rose Bowl. On February 15, Warren V. Miller and Joseph M. Cousins had organized the New Orleans Mid-Winter Sports Association and by October, the group had enough funds to sponsor the Sugar Bowl. Meanwhile, W. Keith Phillips and the Greater Miami Athletic Club worked in November at a January 1 game for Florida, and the Orange Bowl was created. Once again, a Big Ten team was selected by Professor Dickinson (of the University of Illinois) as the national champion, with the Minnesota Golden Gophers being accorded the honor. The conference, however, still had a bar against its...
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1934 Detroit Tigers season was a season in American baseball. The season was the team`s 34th since entering the American League in 1901. The Tigers won the American League pennant with a record of 101-53, the best winning percentage in team history. The team made its fourth World Series appearance, but lost the 1934 World Series to the St. Louis Cardinals 4 games to 3.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1934 World Series matched the St. Louis Cardinals against the Detroit Tigers, with the Cardinals` "Gashouse Gang" winning in seven games for their third championship in nine years.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1934 St. Louis Cardinals season was the team`s 53rd season in St. Louis, Missouri and the 43rd season in the National League. The Cardinals went 95-58 during the season and finished first in the National League. In the World Series, they defeated the Detroit Tigers in seven games, winning the last 11-0.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation`s poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).