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Vanderbilt quarterbacks have played prominent roles in American society off the gridiron as well. Irby Curry, the starting quarterback for the "point-a-minute" 1915 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, served in World War I after graduating in 1916, dying in aerial combat in France. Rand Dixon was a decorated World War II veteran.
The Vanderbilt family is an American family who gained prominence during the Gilded Age. Their success began with the shipping and railroad empires of Cornelius Vanderbilt, and the family expanded into various other areas of industry and philanthropy. Cornelius Vanderbilt's descendants went on to build grand mansions on Fifth Avenue in New York ...
Diermeier was born and grew up in West Berlin and experienced first-hand the fall of the Berlin Wall. His dad worked as a tailor and Daniel was the first in his family to go to college. In 1984–1986 he completed his time in the West German National Civil Service in Munich. He is married and has two children.
Vanderbilt still isn't guaranteed a spot in the NCAA tournament, but the win Sunday went a long way. According to D1Baseball, all five SEC teams since 2012 that had 13 SEC wins and an RPI in the ...
Gannett. Vanderbilt women's basketball will not be facing Tennessee twice in 2024-25, it was announced as part of the SEC's schedule release Tuesday. With Oklahoma and Texas joining the league ...
Alva Erskine Belmont (née Smith; January 17, 1853 – January 26, 1933), known as Alva Vanderbilt from 1875 to 1896, was an American multi-millionaire socialite and women's suffrage activist. She was noted for her energy, intelligence, strong opinions, and willingness to challenge convention. In 1909, she founded the Political Equality League ...
But Vanderbilt then cycled through multiple relievers who couldn't hold that lead before falling, 7-6, to the Vols (42-9, 19-7). The Commodores' NCAA Tournament hopes hang on by a thread with ...
The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt is a 2009 biography of Cornelius Vanderbilt, a 19th-century American industrialist and philanthropist who built his fortune in the shipping and railroad industries, becoming one of the wealthiest Americans in the history of the U.S. It was written by American biographer T. J. Stiles.