The University of Chattanooga, located in the American city of Chattanooga, Tennessee and today known as the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, fielded a gridiron football team for the 1911 season. This team, the fourth ever fielded by the university, was independent of any collegiate football conference. It completed its 5-game schedule with a record of 3 wins and 2 losses.[1]

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Tennessee
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Tennessee is a state located in the southeastern region of the United States. Tennessee is the 36th largest and the 17th most populous of the 50 United States, Tennessee is bordered by Kentucky and Virginia to the north, North Carolina to the east, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi to the south, and Arkansas and Missouri to the west. The Appalachian Mountains dominate the eastern part of the state, Tennessees capital and second largest city is Nashville, which has a population of 654,610. Memphis is the states largest city, with a population of 655,770, the state of Tennessee is rooted in the Watauga Association, a 1772 frontier pact generally regarded as the first constitutional government west of the Appalachians. What is now Tennessee was initially part of North Carolina, Tennessee was admitted to the Union as the 16th state on June 1,1796. Tennessee was the last state to leave the Union and join the Confederacy at the outbreak of the American Civil War in 1861, occupied by Union forces from 1862, it was the first state to be readmitted to the Union at the end of the war. Tennessee furnished more soldiers for the Confederate Army than any other state besides Virginia and this sharply reduced competition in politics in the state until after passage of civil rights legislation in the mid-20th century. This city was established to house the Manhattan Projects uranium enrichment facilities, helping to build the worlds first atomic bomb, Tennessees major industries include agriculture, manufacturing, and tourism. Poultry, soybeans, and cattle are the primary agricultural products, and major manufacturing exports include chemicals, transportation equipment. In the early 18th century, British traders encountered a Cherokee town named Tanasi in present-day Monroe County, the town was located on a river of the same name, and appears on maps as early as 1725. The meaning and origin of the word are uncertain, some accounts suggest it is a Cherokee modification of an earlier Yuchi word. It has been said to mean meeting place, winding river, according to ethnographer James Mooney, the name can not be analyzed and its meaning is lost. The modern spelling, Tennessee, is attributed to James Glen, the governor of South Carolina, the spelling was popularized by the publication of Henry Timberlakes Draught of the Cherokee Country in 1765. In 1788, North Carolina created Tennessee County, the county to be established in what is now Middle Tennessee. When a constitutional convention met in 1796 to organize a new out of the Southwest Territory. Other sources differ on the origin of the nickname, according to the Columbia Encyclopedia. Tennessee ties Missouri as the state bordering the most other states, the state is trisected by the Tennessee River. The highest point in the state is Clingmans Dome at 6,643 feet, Clingmans Dome, which lies on Tennessees eastern border, is the highest point on the Appalachian Trail, and is the third highest peak in the United States east of the Mississippi River

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Chattanooga Choo Choo
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Chattanooga Choo Choo is a 1941 song written by Mack Gordon and composed by Harry Warren. It was originally recorded as a tune by Glenn Miller and His Orchestra. The song was a production number in the 20th Century Fox film Sun Valley Serenade. The Glenn Miller recording, RCA Bluebird B-11230-B, became the #1 song across the United States on December 7,1941, the flip side of the single was I Know Why, which was the A side. This is followed by the introduction of four lines before the main part of the song is heard. The main song opens with a dialog between a passenger and a boy, Pardon me, boy, is that the Chattanooga Choo-Choo. Boy, you can give me a shine, after the entire song is sung, the band plays two parts of the main melody as an instrumental, with the instruments imitating the WHOO WHOO of the train as the song ends. The 78-rpm was recorded on May 7,1941, for RCA Victors Bluebird label and became the first to be certified a gold disc on February 10,1942, for 1,200,000 sales. The transcription of this ceremony can be heard on the first of three volumes of RCAs Legendary Performer compilations released by RCA in the 1970s. In the early 1990s a two-channel recording of a portion of the Sun Valley Serenade soundtrack was discovered, the song was written by the team of Mack Gordon and Harry Warren while traveling on the Southern Railways Birmingham Special train. The song tells the story of traveling from New York City to Chattanooga and that train is now a museum artifact. From 1880, most trains bound for Americas South passed through the southeastern Tennessee city of Chattanooga, the most notable reason why the song isnt about any particular train is because of the line, nothing could be finer|than to have your ham and eggs in Carolina. The rails, especially the routes of the early 1900s. Any route from Pennsylvania Station to Chattanooga through Carolina would be disjointed at best, the composition was nominated for an Academy Award in 1941 for Best Song from a movie. The song achieved its success that even though it could not be heard on network radio for much of 1941 due to the ASCAP boycott. In 1996, the 1941 recording of Chattanooga Choo Choo by Glenn Miller, other notable performances include, Cab Calloway and His Orchestra recorded a cover version of Chattanooga Choo Choo for Conqueror Records in 1941. Carmen Miranda recorded a cover on July 25,1942, bill Haley & His Comets released a cover of Chattanooga Choo Choo as a 45 single on Essex Records in 1954. Pianist Floyd Cramer recorded a version on RCA Records in 1962

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University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
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The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, is a public university located in Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States. The university is one of three universities and two affiliated institutions in the University of Tennessee System. S. In 1907, the changed its name to University of Chattanooga. In 1964 the university merged with Zion College, which had established in 1949. In 1969 the University of Chattanooga joined the UT system and became the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, the University of Chattanooga Foundation Inc. is a private corporation, created in 1969, that manages the private endowment of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. UTC uses the system, with five optional mini-terms in the summer. The leadership of the campus rests upon the chancellor, who answers to the UT System President, the University is currently headed by Chancellor Dr. Steve Angle. A voice for student leadership on campus, the SGA consists of senators representing districts/the college they belong to, such as the College of Arts and Sciences. Chattanooga is best known for its nationally ranked Business program, Engineering, Nursing, English, Chemistry, Accounting, Psychology, Music, the university offers over 140 undergraduate majors and concentrations, and over 50 undergraduate minors. In an effort to expand the horizons of its student body, UTC recently began a program with Kangnung National University of Kangnung. In November 2005, SimCenter was listed as the 89th most powerful supercomputer by Top500, on November 20,2007, the University announced the center has been named a National Center for Computational Engineering. More recently, The SimCenter provided the research for a new source of alternative energy unveiled by Bloom Energy Corporation in Sunnyvale. The University is served by CARTA bus routes 4,7,10,14,19, route 14 only operates on weekdays during fall and spring terms, when the University is session. The route runs on and off the campus on McCallie, Houston, Vine, Douglas, Fifth, a recent extension serves Third, ONeal, and Central Streets, as well as Erlanger Hospital, and a large parking lot at Engel Stadium. All students showing valid University identification cards ride for free on all CARTA routes, Challenger Center – The widow of Dick Scobee, a Challenger astronaut, donated the building in her husbands memory. This educational simulation includes different space missions with project completed from mission control, Cadek Hall – Home to the Cadek Conservatory, UTC Choral Department, and WUTC radio. Recently, Hooper Hall reopened after a lead and asbestos abatement project Hunter Hall Education Department Lupton Library – see below Metropolitan Hall – Nursing department, formerly housed the Chattanooga Metropolitan Hospital Old Math Building – Demolished in the late 1990s. Presidents House – Development Department Patten House – Located in the Fort Wood National Historic District, Home of the Alumni Affairs Department

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Gridiron football
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Gridiron football, or North American football, is a form of football primarily played in the United States and Canada. The predominant forms of football are American football and Canadian football. The grid system was abandoned in favor of the system of lines and hash marks used today. Gridiron football developed in the late 19th century out of the games now known as rugby football. Walter Camp is credited with creating many of the rules that differentiate gridiron football from its older counterparts, because the two sets of lines had the same spacing and were perpendicular, they divided the field into squares, resembling a checkerboard or gridiron pattern. The word gridiron, in use since the 14th century, refers to a grid for cooking food over a fire. As described in Outdoor Sports and Games, by Claude H. Miller, at each end are goal posts set 18 feet 6 inches apart, with a crossbar 10 feet above the ground. The field is marked off in chalk lines similar to a tennis court, the centre of the field where the play starts is 55 yards from either end. The lines on a football field make an effect and have given to the field the name of gridiron. As a result, the name of the field, gridiron, was applied to the game itself, the ball would be snapped in the grid in which it was downed on the previous play. The grid system was abandoned in favor of the system of lines and hash marks used today. Especially outside of the U. S. and Canada, the gridiron and gridiron football are often used to distinguish the North American sport from other codes of football. Gridiron is the word for the sport in Australia and New Zealand. In the United States and Canada, the game is known unambiguously as football, association football is known in these countries as soccer and rugby football, seldom encountered in the U. S. is known as rugby or, especially in Canada, English rugby. American football is the most common and widely known of the football codes. It is played with players to a side, four downs. The premier professional league in the United States, the National Football League, has its own distinct code, colleges in the United States generally play under the code defined in NCAA Football Rules and Interpretations. Youth games generally follow NFHS code with modifications, adult semi-pro, alternative and minor professional, amateur, touch, flag, etc. may follow any one of these codes or use their own rules

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Finley Stadium
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It is located in Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States. The stadium is named in honor of W. Max Finley, former chairman of the Rock Tenn Corporation, bronze busts of both Finley and Davenport adorn the main entryway to the stadium. In 1997, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga football program stopped using Chamberlain Field, on Oct.18,1997, the Mocs opened up their new home, Finley Stadium Davenport Field, as an overflow crowd of 22,646 watched UTC defeat Tennessee State 28-7. The 20, 668-seat facility is part of the citys Southside revitalization project, a stadium project for UTC and Chattanooga had been talked about by city leaders for quite some time before it came to fruition. Chamberlain Field on the UTC campus, which opened in 1908, had the distinction of being the second-oldest on-campus stadium in the nation, officials agreed that something needed to be done. The $28.5 million project needed supporters to become a reality, donations from the private sector ranged anywhere from a 10 dollar bill to $1 million. In fact, nearly 40 percent, or $10.2 million of the project, the City of Chattanooga and Hamilton County contributed $13 million, the State of Tennessee gave $3.5 million, and the University donated $2.9 million. Ground breaking on the site that was once the Rock Tenn plant was held March 7,1996, seven months later, the Stadium Corporation named the facility Finley Stadium Davenport Field. The facility, designed by Derthick, Henley & Wilkerson and built by C&I Specialty, the $350,000 scoreboard includes a giant matrix screen and the Stadium Club can hold 250 for pregame or postgame functions. The press box can hold 60 media representatives, has three radio booths, and a television broadcast booth. On either side of the pressbox is the stadiums Wall of Champions, identical home and visitors locker rooms contain a separate training area and coaches locker room, as well as an extensive player locker area. Adjacent to the stadium is the First Tennessee Pavilion, the old Ross-Meehan Foundry has been renovated into an open-air pavilion which has become a favorite for tailgaters, complete with food and beverage concessions and a childrens area. The pavilion offers tailgaters a perfect atmosphere around the stadium while providing protection from the weather without being indoors. In 2015, a new surface was installed to replace the old for $600,000 - with the ability to erase football lines or soccer lines depending on the event to be held