Curious. When did your school start

[catamount man]

WCU was founded in 1889. 1st year of football was 1931.

[Rob Iola]

From Wikipedia:

Pennsylvania Reform Institute and State Pen 1827-1904
Pennsylvania Repository for the Mentally Infirm 1905-1941
German POW Camp and Sausage/Scrapple Factory 1942-1945
Pennsylvania Community for Drunk Priests 1946 to Present
Changed name to Augustinian College of Villanova in 1846
Lost the Augustinian College bit sometime after 1846

[JConnolly]

1889 Elon College (Fightin' Christians)
2001 Elon University (Phoenix)

First Football Game was 1949

[andy7171]

1865 - as a school
1969 - for football

[CatMom]

JMU - 1908-various names-James Madison University around '72.

That's informative

[GA St. MBB Fan]

1913-1933 - Georgia School of Technology's Evening School of Commerce
1933-1935 - University System of Georgia Evening School
1935-1947 - University Extension Center in Atlanta - Georgia Evening College/Atlanta Junior College
1947-1955 - Atlanta Division of the University of Georgia
1955-1961 - Georgia State College of Business Administration
1961-1969 - Georgia State College
1969- Present - Georgia State University

http://www.library.gsu.edu/spcoll/pages ... 49&ID=3671

[jd of de]

Delaware
Established 1743 & State Chartered 1833
1st Football Game: Saturday, October 26,1889

[BigDawgPop]

Gardner Webb History:

Founded in 1905 as Boiling Springs High School; became Boiling Springs Junior College in 1928; renamed Gardner-Webb College in 1942 in honor of Govenor O. Max Gardner and his wife, Fay Webb Gardner; became a university in 1993; hosted 1996 U.S. Olympic Trials-Cycling; completed $34 million capital campaign in 1998; reclassification to NCAA Division I athletics in 2000

[SouthDakotaGrizzly]

South Dakota Grizzly was close................

MSU was originally founded in 1893 as the Agricultural College of the State of Montana Land (a land grant college), later renamed Montana College of Agricultural and Mechanic Arts, became commonly known as Montana State College in the 1920's and became Montana State University in 1965.

You're right, I skipped all the iterations. For some reason, I couldn't find the evolution of the UM name online, but I think it was less complicated than MSU's.

Also of note is that the Cats were originally the Aggies. I didn't find a date for when the name change occurred, but it seems to have happened before the 1920's since the basketball team of that era was referred to as the "Golden Bobcats" (according to Wikipedia).

If memory serves, UM also went by a different nickname initially before being dubbed the Grizzlies by a local newspaper writer. Again, I'm having no luck with Google today, so I can't say for certain when the name Grizzlies stuck.

[SACCAT]

South Dakota Grizzly was close................

MSU was originally founded in 1893 as the Agricultural College of the State of Montana Land (a land grant college), later renamed Montana College of Agricultural and Mechanic Arts, became commonly known as Montana State College in the 1920's and became Montana State University in 1965.

You're right, I skipped all the iterations. For some reason, I couldn't find the evolution of the UM name online, but I think it was less complicated than MSU's.

Also of note is that the Cats were originally the Aggies. I didn't find a date for when the name change occurred, but it seems to have happened before the 1920's since the basketball team of that era was referred to as the "Golden Bobcats" (according to Wikipedia).

If memory serves, UM also went by a different nickname initially before being dubbed the Grizzlies by a local newspaper writer. Again, I'm having no luck with Google today, so I can't say for certain when the name Grizzlies stuck.

I think you use to be the Montana Silly nannies.

[kuntryboimike]

1971-Lynchburg Baptist College
1976-Liberty Baptist College
1984-Liberty University

2nd youngest school in NCAA Division 1

started football in 1973. in 37 yrs we are where we are today. great growth in not a very long time period

[20DUKES08]

1908 - The State Normal and Industrial School for Women
1938 - Madison College
1976 - James Madison University

1972 - First year of football

[kuntryboimike]

Liberty and JMU are great rival schools theyve been playin eachother since 1980 and the wins keep goin back and forth between the 2!!!

[JMU DJ]

Liberty and JMU are great rival schools theyve been playin eachother since 1980 and the wins keep goin back and forth between the 2!!!

Eh, JMU has a 10-5 record vs LU all time. LU's last win in 1992, longer drought than Townson St.

1908 - The State Normal and Industrial School for Women

I'm surprised it too this long to come up and that Andy has been pretty quite on the topic

[Franks Tanks]

Lafayette College--1826

Always been known as Lafayette College

[SouthDakotaGrizzly]

I think you use to be the Montana Silly nannies.

Did you see that episode of Family Guy this weekend too??

[Rob Iola]

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[Rob Iola]

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Also of note is that the Cats were originally the Aggies. I didn't find a date for when the name change occurred, but it seems to have happened before the 1920's since the basketball team of that era was referred to as the "Golden Showercaps" (according to Wikipedia).

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I think you use to be the Montana Silly nannies.

Shipoopi!

[Thumper 76]

SDSU was founded in 1881 as a land grant college and was south dakota state college i believe. Eventually changed to south dakota state university. Football was organized in 1889, and the Jacks have compiled a 513-414-38 record through 2007.

[Go...gate]

Colgate was founded in 1819 and fielded its first football team in 1890.

[49RFootballNow]

1946 - Charlotte Center for the University of North Carolina
1949 - Charlotte College
1965 - University of North Carolina at Charlotte
2013 - Football restarts
Hopefully sooner than later - University of Charlotte

[Bostonspider]

Richmond's been around since 1840

Well UR has a few "start dates" The oldest, and most widely cited is 1830, when Dunlora Academy was founded as a Baptist Seminary. This was expanded into a liberal arts and sciences college, and charted as Richmond College in 1840. In 1914 Richmond College moved from downtown to the west end of Richmond, joining the brand new Westhampton College (a liberal arts and sciences college for women) and together they were incorporated in 1920 as the University of Richmond