In astounding fashion, the 1914 Colby Mules, in a combined score of 123 to 0, demolished rivals Bowdoin College, the University of Maine and which oldest coeducational school in New England?
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1914 Colby Mules football team The 1914 Colby Mules football team represented Colby College during the 1914 college football season. The team has been described as the greatest in Colby history as well as one of the strongest college teams ever in the state of Maine. Colby defeated its three in-state rivals Bowdoin College, the University of Maine, and Bates College by a combined score 123 to 0 to win the series title and gained national recognition for its game against the star–studded Navy Midshipmen. The team was led by first year head coach Myron E. Fuller and captained by senior Paul "Ginger" Fraser.
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Bates College Bates College ( ; legally incorporated as the President and Trustees of Bates College) is a private liberal arts college in Lewiston, Maine. It was founded by abolitionist statesmen and established with funds from industrialist and textile tycoon, Benjamin Bates. The college is the oldest coeducational college in New England, the third oldest in Maine, and the first to grant a degree to a woman in New England.
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Lisbon High School (Maine) Lisbon High School is a public high school in Lisbon Falls, Androscoggin County, Maine, United States. The school mascot is the greyhound. The school is part of the Lisbon School Department.
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Hoddy Hildreth Horace “Hoddy” Hildreth (born December 17, 1931) is an American lawyer, politician and conservationist in Maine. Hildreth, the son of Maine Governor Horace Hildreth, was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts and grew up in Cumberland, Maine. He was 14 years old when his father was elected Governor, at which time his family moved to the Maine State House in Augusta, Maine. He then attended Cony High School for three years before transferring to Deerfield Academy. Like his father and grandfather, he graduated from Bowdoin College. In 1949, while Hoddy Hildreth was a senior at Bowdoin, his father was appointed United States Ambassador to Pakistan and he went with his father abroad. He spent his final year of undergraduate studies at Forman Christian College in Lahore, Pakistan before returning to Bowdoin to take his final exams and participate in commencement. He later served in the Maine House of Representatives.
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Dexter School The Dexter School was an independent school for boys in Brookline, Massachusetts, United States. The school was founded in 1926. The school motto was "Our Best Today, Better Tomorrow." In 2013 the Dexter School merged with the sister school Southfield School to form Dexter Southfield with which it had shared its campus since 1992.
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Colonial colleges The colonial colleges are nine institutions of higher education chartered in the Thirteen Colonies before the United States of America became a sovereign nation after the American Revolution. These nine have long been considered together, notably in the survey of their origins in the 1907 "The Cambridge History of English and American Literature". Seven of the nine colonial colleges are part of the Ivy League athletic conference: Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, University of Pennsylvania, Brown, and Dartmouth. (The eighth member of the Ivy League, Cornell University, was founded in 1865.)
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Boston College Boston College (also referred to as BC) is a private Jesuit Catholic research university located in the affluent village of Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, United States, 6 mi west of downtown Boston. It has 9,100 full-time undergraduates and almost 5,000 graduate students. The university's name reflects its early history as a liberal arts college and preparatory school (now Boston College High School) in Dorchester. It is a member of the 568 Group and the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities. Its main campus is a historic district and features some of the earliest examples of collegiate gothic architecture in North America.
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Mt. Blue High School Mt. Blue High School is a public high school (grades 9–12) in Farmington, Maine, United States. The school is a part of the Mt. Blue Regional School District, and enrolls students from the Maine towns of Farmington, Weld, Temple, Wilton, Chesterville, New Vineyard, Industry, New Sharon, Starks,and Vienna. The school's athletic mascot is the cougar.
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Dresden Brick School House The Dresden Brick School House is a historic school building on Maine State Route 128 in Dresden, Maine. Built in 1816, it is one of the oldest surviving brick district school buildings in the state. It is now a museum property, owned by the local historical society. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.
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Cardigan Mountain School Cardigan Mountain School, also called Cardigan or CMS, for short, is an all-boys independent boarding school for grades six through nine, located on 62 Alumni Drive, Canaan, New Hampshire, USA. It was founded in 1945 on land provided by Dartmouth College.
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Boston College Eagles football The Boston College Eagles football team represents Boston College in the sport of American football. The Eagles compete in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and the Atlantic Division of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC). Begun in 1892, Boston College's football team was one of six "Major College" football programs in New England as designated by NCAA classifications, starting in 1938. By 1981, and for the remainder of the twentieth century, BC was New England's sole Division I-A program. It has amassed a 624–444–37 record and is 99–54 since the turn of the 21st century.
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Connecticut–Rhode Island football rivalry The college football rivalry between the University of Connecticut and the University of Rhode Island dates back to the 1890s and was born largely out of proximity, with the schools being less than 60 miles apart. The schools competed in all sports for decades as members of the Yankee Conference. Even though UConn became a charter member of the Big East in 1979, the schools continued to compete in football at the I-AA level as members of the Atlantic 10. The yearly games ended after UConn left the A-10 to move to I-A football in 2000.
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Southfield School (Massachusetts) Southfield School was an independent school for girls in Brookline, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1992, its campus is also home to its brother school, Dexter, an independent school for boys founded in 1926. In 2013 the school merged with Dexter to form Dexter Southfield.
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Old Schoolhouse (York, Maine) The Old Schoolhouse, also known as the York Corner Schoolhouse, is an historic one-room school building on the grounds of the Museums of Old York at York and Lindsay Streets in York, Maine. Built in 1755, it is one of the oldest surviving schoolhouses in all of New England. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.
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The Pilgrims' School The Pilgrims' School is a boys' preparatory school and cathedral school in the cathedral city of Winchester, Hampshire, England. The official date of establishment is unknown but historical records indicate that choristers of Winchester Cathedral's renowned choir have been educated in the Close as early the 7th century. As it also educates choristers of the Winchester College Chapel Choir, the school maintains close links with the college. It is not to be confused with the Pilgrim School, Bedford, built in 1962 (formerly called "Pilgrim Grammar School").
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Charles Lincoln White Charles Lincoln White (January 22, 1863 – 1941) was the 13th President of Colby College, Maine, United States from 1901–1908.
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Winthrop University Winthrop University, often referred to as Winthrop or WU and formerly known as Winthrop College, is a public, coeducational, liberal arts university located in Rock Hill, South Carolina, United States. Founded in 1886 by David Bancroft Johnson, who served as the superintendent of Columbia, South Carolina, schools, received a $1,500 grant from Robert Charles Winthrop, a Boston philanthropist and chair of the Peabody Education Board. The school originally opened in Columbia to educate young women to teach in the public schools.
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Dorset House School Dorset House School is a co-educational preparatory school near Pulborough in West Sussex, England. There are 146 pupils, made up of 81 boys and 65 girls, whose ages range from 4yrs to 13yrs. This school is a feeder to all the major public schools in the South-East of England and beyond, including: Ardingly, Brighton College, Charterhouse, Christ's Hospital, Cranleigh, Eastbourne College, Harrow, Hurstpierpoint College, Lancing College, Marlborough, Millfield, Milton Abbey, Radley College, Roedean, Shrewsbury, Tonbridge School, Wellington,Winchester and Worth School
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Sanford School Sanford School is a private school for co-ed students in PreK through high school, located on a spacious, college-like campus in Hockessin, Delaware. Originally known as "Sunny Hills School", it was founded on September 23, 1930, by Sanford and Ellen Sawin, in memory of their eldest son Sanford Sawin, Jr. The school's name was changed to Sanford in 1966, 50 years after his death. Sanford School maintains a 100% college acceptance rate for its students, made possible by its hands-on faculty. The student to teacher ratio is set at 12:1, with average class sizes of 15 students. Sanford School is a college preparatory school and maintains a 100% percent college acceptance rate.
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The Quill (magazine) The Quill is Bowdoin College's oldest and only literary magazine. It is the second oldest continuously functioning club on the Bowdoin campus, second only to the "Bowdoin Orient".
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Deerfield Academy Deerfield Academy (also known as Deerfield or DA) is an independent, coeducational school in Deerfield, Massachusetts for boarding and day students in grades 9-12 and PG. Founded in 1797, it is one of the oldest secondary schools in the United States. It is a four-year college-preparatory school with approximately 650 students and about 125 faculty, all of whom live on or near campus during the school year. Deerfield is selective, with a 16.4% acceptance rate for the 2017-2018 school year. Its endowment is $532 million.
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Historic Quad Historic Quad, also known as the Historic Quadrangle in Lewiston, Maine, is a grassy area of 22.4 acres (9.1 ha) enclosed by fences with five garnet gates. It is the oldest part of the Bates College campus, and serves as its historic center as well as the site of annual commencement exercises and other convocations. The areas is principally surrounded by College Street, Campus Avenue, Central Avenue and Andrews Road. The most center building on the Quad is Hathorn Hall, built in 1856 it was inducted into National Register of Historic Places in 1970. Hathorn is flanked by the oldest residential dorm at the college, Parker Hall, and the second oldest natural science building Dana Chemistry Hall. Directly across the stairs of Hathorn is Lindholm House, which houses the admissions office.