Which animal named after Chattanooga's former football coach is a permanent resident in North America?
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Scrappy Moc Scrappy is the mascot of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. He is a mockingbird, the state bird of Tennessee. Scrappy is named after the legendary, former Chattanooga football coach, A.C. "Scrappy" Moore.
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Northern mockingbird The northern mockingbird ("Mimus polyglottos") is the only mockingbird commonly found in North America. This bird is mainly a permanent resident, but northern birds may move south during harsh weather. This species has rarely been observed in Europe.
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2017 Tennessee Titans season The 2017 Tennessee Titans season is the franchise's 48th season in the National Football League and the 58th overall. It will also mark the franchise's 21st season in the state of Tennessee as well as the second full season under head coach Mike Mularkey. The Titans will enter the season hoping to improve upon their 9–7 record from 2016 and return to the playoffs for the first time since 2008.
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White-footed mouse The white-footed mouse ("Peromyscus leucopus") is a rodent native to North America from Ontario, Quebec, Labrador, and the Maritime Provinces (excluding the island of Newfoundland) to the southwest United States and Mexico. In the Maritimes, its only location is a disjunct population in southern Nova Scotia. It is also known as the woodmouse, particularly in Texas.
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Vernon Smith (American football) Vernon "Catfish" Smith (January 14, 1908 – September 29, 1988) was an American football, basketball, and baseball player, coach, and military officer. A three-sport athlete at the University of Georgia, Smith was named to the 1931 College Football All-America Team as an end. After his playing days, he served as the co-head basketball coach at his alma mater during the 1937–38 season. Smith was also the head baseball coach at Georgia from 1934 to 1937 and at the University of South Carolina from 1938 to 1939 and again from 1946 to 1947. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a player in 1979.
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1916 Chattanooga Moccasins football team The 1916 Chattanooga Moccasins football team represented the University of Chattanooga during the 1916 college football season. It was the football program's ninth year of intercollegiate college football, located in the U.S. state of Tennessee. The team was just starting and were a part of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association.
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Volunteer Shield The Volunteer Shield is a trophy awarded to the primary supporter group of the Tennessean club in the National Premier Soccer League with the best head-to-head record. It was inaugurated in 2015, and awarded retroactively to Chattanooga FC for the best record during the 2014 season. The name derives from the state's nickname, the "Volunteer State".
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Equus francisci Equus francisci is an extinct species of "Equus" (the genus that includes the horse) which was native to North America. Specimens of "E. francisci" have been found from northern Texas to southern South Dakota and in Alberta, Canada. Evidence shows this species to have evolved in North America.
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Brent Thompson (American football) Brent Thompson is an American college football coach, currently serving as head coach of The Citadel Bulldogs football team. He was named to that position after the 2015 season.
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2014 Memphis Tigers football team The 2014 Memphis Tigers football team represented the University of Memphis in the 2014 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Tigers were coached by third-year head coach Justin Fuente and played their home games at the Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium in Memphis, Tennessee. The Tigers competed as a member of the American Athletic Conference. Memphis began the year with low expectations since they finished at the bottom of the American Athletic Conference and posted a 3–9 (1–7 The American) record in 2013. However, the Tigers turned completely around. First, they finished in a three-way tie with Cincinnati and UCF for the conference title by posting a 10–3 (7–1 The American) record. It was their first conference championship (shared) since 1971 when Memphis was part of the Missouri Valley Conference. The 2014 10-win season equaled the total number of wins Memphis posted over the 2010–2013 seasons. Also, the 10-win season was the first time Memphis had posted double digit wins in a season since 1938. The Tigers also won their first bowl game since 2005 by beating BYU 55–48 in double OT in the inaugural Miami Beach Bowl. Memphis also finished #25 in the final AP Poll for the first time since 2004.
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Keith Burns (American football coach) Melvin Keith Burns (born September 26, 1960) is an American football coach. He served as head football coach at the University of Tulsa from 2000 to 2002, compiling an overall college football record of seven wins and 28 losses. Burns has also been the defensive coordinator at Pacific, USC, University of Arkansas and San Jose State. While at Arkansas in 1998, Burns was a finalist for the Broyles Award, given annually to the nation's top college football assistant coach. He was also an assistant special teams coach for the Oakland Raiders of the National Football League (NFL). After serving as assistant head coach and defensive coordinator for Archbishop Mitty High School in San Jose, Burns was promoted to head coach effective for 2015.
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Tom Hutton (American football) William Thomas Hutton (born July 8, 1972 in Memphis, Tennessee) is a former professional American football player who played punter. As an undrafted free agent, Hutton played for four seasons for the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League where he averaged 42.4 yards on 349 punts, and had 77 of his kicks downed inside the 20-yard line. Hutton played for the Miami Dolphins in 1999 and was with the Green Bay Packers during the 2000 training camp. In his elementary years, he attended Presbyterian Day School and Woodland Presbyterian School. He proceeded to Memphis University School for high school, where he graduated in 1991. He then walked on and played college football at the University of Tennessee where he was the starting punter for four years. He currently resides in Memphis with his wife, who he married in 1998, and two daughters.
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1977 Chattanooga Moccasins football team The 1977 Chattanooga Moccasins football team represented the University of Chattanooga during the 1977 NCAA Division I football season.
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Ken Niumatalolo Kenneth Va'a Niumatalolo (born May 8, 1965) is an American football coach and former player. He has been the head football coach at the United States Naval Academy since 2007. Niumatalolo played college football at the University of Hawaii. As a quarterback he led the then-Rainbows to their first postseason bowl game in 1989. Niumatalolo is the second person of Polynesian descent to be named head coach of a NCAA Division I FBS college football program and the first ethnic Samoan collegiate head coach on any level. Niumatalolo was inducted into the Polynesian Football Hall of Fame on January 23, 2014. He is the winningest coach in the history of Navy football.
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Jacob Burney Jacob Burney (born January 24, 1959 in Chattanooga, Tennessee) is an American football coach.
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Cincinnati Bearcats football The Cincinnati Bearcats football program represents the University of Cincinnati in college football. They compete at the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision level as members of the American Athletic Conference, and have played their home games in historic Nippert Stadium since 1924. With an all-time record of over .500 (as of 2017), the Bearcats have really taken it up a notch over the last 10 years, with a record of 86–43, along with 8 bowl game appearances, 5 conference titles, two BCS Bowl berths, and 22 NFL Draft selections.
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Tropical mockingbird The tropical mockingbird ("Mimus gilvus") is a resident breeding bird from southern Mexico south to northern Brazil, and in the Lesser Antilles and other Caribbean islands. The birds in Panama and Trinidad may have been introduced. The northern mockingbird ("M. polyglottos") is its closest living relative, but the critically endangered Socorro mockingbird ("M. graysoni") is also much closer to these two than previously believed .
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Robert Neyland Robert Reese Neyland (pronounced KNEE-land), MBE, (February 17, 1892 – March 28, 1962) was an American football player and coach and officer in the United States Army, reaching the rank of brigadier general. He served three stints as the head football coach at the University of Tennessee (UT) from 1926 to 1934, 1936 to 1940, and 1946 to 1952. He is one of two college football coaches to have won national titles in two non-consecutive tenures at the same school, along with Frank Leahy of the University of Notre Dame. Neyland holds the record for most wins in Tennessee Volunteers history with 173 wins in 216 games, six undefeated seasons, nine undefeated regular seasons, seven conference championships, and four national championships. At UT, he reeled off undefeated streaks of 33, 28, 23, 19, and 14 games.
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Mount Pleasant, Tennessee Mount Pleasant is a city in Maury County, Tennessee, United States. Mount Pleasant is the birthplace of Confederate Sam R. Watkins and formerly titled "The Phosphate Capital of the World." The population was 4,561 at the 2010 census, up from 4,491 in 2000.
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Shane Richardson (American football) Shane Richardson is an American football coach and former player. He is the head football coach at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke and has served as the head coach of the Braves since his appointment on February 21, 2014.
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2017 Chattanooga Mocs football team The 2017 Chattanooga Mocs football team will represent the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga in the 2017 NCAA Division I FCS football season as a member of the Southern Conference (SoCon). The Mocs are led by first-year head coach, Tom Arth and play their home games at Finley Stadium in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
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Mac Bryan Mac Bryan (born c. 1959) is an American football coach. He is the head football coach at Ooltewah High School in Ooltewah, Tennessee. Bryan served as the head football coach at Pikeville College—now known as the University of Pikeville—in Pikeville, Kentucky for three seasons, from 2006 to 2008, compiling a record of 10–22.