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Vanderbilt University (informally Vandy or VU) is a private research university in Nashville, Tennessee.Founded in 1873, it was named in honor of shipping and railroad magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt, who provided the school its initial $1 million endowment in the hopes that his gift and the greater work of the university would help to heal the sectional wounds inflicted by the American Civil War.
The Vanderbilt Commodores baseball team is an American National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) college baseball team from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. The team participates in the Eastern division of the Southeastern Conference (SEC) and plays its home games on campus at Hawkins Field .
Cornelius Vander Starr (October 15, 1892 – December 20, 1968), sometimes known as Neil Starr, was an American businessman and founder of C.V. Starr & Co. (later known as Starr Companies) in Shanghai, China, which became insurance giant AIG. AIG grew from an initial market value of $300 million to $180 billion, becoming the largest insurance ...
FirstBank Stadium (formerly Dudley Field and Vanderbilt Stadium) is a football stadium located in Nashville, Tennessee.Completed in 1922 as the first stadium in the South to be used exclusively for college football, it is the home of the Vanderbilt University football team.
March 17, 2024 at 2:25 PM. With Vanderbilt basketball moving on from coach Jerry Stackhouse, the transfer portal is now open for business for the Commodores' players. Although the portal doesn't ...
The 2024 Vanderbilt Commodores football team will represent Vanderbilt University as a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC) during the 2024 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Commodores are led by Clark Lea in his fourth year as their head coach.
Vanderbilt is located in southwestern Jackson County at (28.822110, -96.61570 It is 13 miles (21 km) by road south of Edna , the county seat . According to the United States Census Bureau , the Vanderbilt CDP has a total area of 1.9 square miles (4.9 km 2 ), all land.
The 2022–23 William & Mary Tribe men's basketball team represented the College of William & Mary in the 2022–23 NCAA Division I men's basketball season.The Tribe, led by fourth-year head coach Dane Fischer, played their home games at Kaplan Arena in Williamsburg, Virginia as members of the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA).