The 1950 Akron Zippers football team was an American football team that represented the University of Akron in the Ohio Athletic Conference (OAC) during...
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The Akron Zips football team is a college football program representing the University of Akron in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) of the National...
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competition for college football. The Zips name comes from "zippers", rubber overshoes made by the BF Goodrich Company of Akron that were popular in the...
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The 1949 Akron Zippers football team was an American football team that represented the University of Akron in the Ohio Athletic Conference (OAC) during...
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Zippy (mascot) (category Akron Zips)
University of Akron athletics team. Zippy is a kangaroo, and was chosen by a committee in 1953. The school's nickname, "Zips", is a shortening of "Zippers", a pair...
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the Gipper to the Zippers". Si.com. Archived from the original on September 28, 2017. Retrieved November 16, 2017. "Even At Akron, Faust Is Faust". Articles...
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Newspapers.com. Eddie Butler (November 29, 1935). "Baldwin-Wallace Beats Zippers, 26-6, In Finale". The Akron Beacon Journal. p. 28 – via Newspapers.com....
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Paul Baldacci, the Zippers compiled a 5–4 record and were outscored by a total of 134 to 122. The 1946 Wittenberg Tigers football team represented the Wittenberg...
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Kenneth Cochrane (category Akron Zips football coaches)
1952 to 1953. As athletic director at Akron in 1950, Cochrane shortened the school's athletic nickname from "Zippers" to "Zips". Cochrane was born in Glasgow...
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Knute Rockne (category Akron Indians (Ohio League) players)
recruited by Peggy Parratt to play for the Akron Indians. There Parratt had Rockne playing both end and halfback and teamed with him on several successful forward...
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Akron Ellet Orangemen (1937–71, to Akron City) Lakemore Springfield Spartans (1937–93, to Northeastern Buckeye) Kent State Blue Devils (1937–45, 1950–53...
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List of college nickname changes in the United States (section Changes of women's team nicknames only)
from the mid-1920s until November 1995 Akron Zips, called the "Zippers" from 1927 to 1950; this was changed when the term became most associated with the...
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October 18, 2001) was an American football coach in Ohio. He served as the head football coach at the University of Akron from 1948 to 1951, compiling a...
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Hersch, Hank. "Faust: From the Gipper to the Zippers". Si.com. Retrieved November 16, 2017. "Even At Akron, Faust Is Faust". Articles.chicagotribune.com...
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Thomas Dowler (category Akron Zips football coaches)
University of Akron in 1939 and 1940, compiling a career college football record of 10–13–5. Dowler also coached the William & Mary men's basketball team from...
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The 1937 college football season ended with the Panthers of the University of Pittsburgh being named the nation's No. 1 team (and "mythical national champion")...
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Otis Douglas (category Akron Zips football coaches)
1989) was an American gridiron football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at the University of Akron (1941–1942), Drexel University...
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