Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The history of American football can be traced to early versions of rugby football and association football.Both games have their origin in multiple varieties of football played in the United Kingdom in the mid-19th century, in which a football is kicked at a goal or kicked over a line, which in turn were based on the varieties of English public school football games descending from medieval ...
The Texas State Bobcats college football team represents Texas State University as a member of the Sun Belt Conference. The Bobcats competes as part of the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision. The program has had 20 head coaches, and one interim head coach, since it began play during the 1904 season.
Eddie Cochems was the head football coach at North Dakota State (1902–1903), Clemson (1905), Saint Louis University (1906–1908), and Maine (1914). During his three years at St. Louis, he was the first American football coach to build an offense around the forward pass, which became a legal play in the 1906 college football season. Using the ...
Stephen Sarkisian (/ s ɑːr ˈ k iː ʒ ə n /; born March 8, 1974) [2] is an American football coach and former player who is the head football coach at the University of Texas at Austin. He previously was the head football coach at the University of Washington from 2009 to 2013 and the University of Southern California (USC) from 2014 to 2015.
Withers, who was serving as head coach at James Madison in the FCS at the time of his hiring, is the first African American to hold the position of head football coach at Texas State University. [25] In 2016, Withers' first season, the Bobcats compiled a 2–10 record. [ 26 ]
After an early field goal put Baylor up 3-0, Finley settled in. He led Texas State on an eight-play, 75-yard drive that ended with a 10-yard touchdown pass to Ismail Mahdi.
The history of sports in the United States reveals that American football, baseball, softball, and indoor soccer evolved from older British sports—rugby football, British baseball, rounders, and association football, respectively. Over time, these sports diverged significantly from their European origins, developing into distinctly American ...
Texas State coach G.J. Kinne, center, led the Bobcats to big things in his first season in San Marcos: a first-ever FBS bowl invitation followed by a win over Rice in the First Responder Bowl.