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Teacher Training School (now Blome Building), 1922. Initially named the Northern Arizona Normal School, the institution opened on September 11, 1899, with 23 students, two faculty members—one, Almon Nicholas Taylor, who was also the school president—and "two copies of Webster's International Dictionary bound in sheepskin" as teaching resources. [19]
NAU football was previously played outdoors on natural grass at Lumberjack Stadium. [9] [10] The dome hosted the Big Sky men's basketball tournament in 1987, 1997, 1998, and 2006. For its first six years, the Walkup Skydome was the world's largest clear-span timber dome, until the completion of the Tacoma Dome in Tacoma, Washington, in 1983. [11]
NAU Lumberjacks cross country Lumberjack Stadium is a 1,000 seat multi-purpose stadium in Flagstaff, Arizona owned by Northern Arizona University . It is home to the NAU Lumberjacks women's soccer, cross country , and outdoor track and field teams.
The NAU Lumberjacks are the varsity athletic teams representing Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Arizona in intercollegiate athletics. The school's mascot was adopted in 1946. The school's mascot was adopted in 1946.
The NAU Lumberjacks football program is the intercollegiate American football team for the Northern Arizona University located in Flagstaff, Arizona. The team competes in the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) and is a member of the Big Sky Conference. The school's first football team was fielded in 1915.
NAU Lumberjack basketball games are broadcast on KAFF Country Legends 93.5/AM 930 in Flagstaff, Fun Oldies 1450 AM/100.9 in Prescott and KDUS AM 1060 in Phoenix, with commentary provided by the "Voice of the Lumberjacks" Mitch Strohman, Coach Dave Brown with the play-by-play and Dave Zorn, host of the NAU Halftime Report.
Distance runner Mo Farah trains in Flagstaff, Ariz., ahead of the Tokyo Olympics. Farah was one of more than 240 Olympians and Paralympians who trained there before the Summer Games.
The Babbitt family would be very influential in northern Arizona for decades. [35] [36] In 1899, the Northern Arizona Normal School was established; it was renamed to Northern Arizona University (NAU) in 1966. [11] On January 1, 1900, John Weatherford opened the Weatherford Hotel in Flagstaff.